CNN – Health

By Dr. Tara Narula, CNN Medical Correspondent Doctors and public health experts often talk about a bullet as the vector, just as a virus is the…

By Jen Christensen and Brenda Goodman CNN A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug…

By Carma Hassan, CNN There were more than 50,000 home births in the United States in 2021, an increase of 12% over the year before and the highest…

By Raenu Charles, CNN When the US Food and Drug Administration confirmed a shortage of the drug Adderall last month, many people who rely on the…

By Dana Santas, CNN For many people, travel is a necessary part of celebrating the holidays with loved ones. This means enduring all the stressful…

By Meron Moges-Gerbi, CNN A growing percentage of Indigenous and Black parents in the United States reported that their children have faced racist…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Uganda has been struggling with an Ebola outbreak for months, and although there have been no suspected or probable Ebola…

By Katia Hetter, CNN With this year’s Thanksgiving the third since the onset of the pandemic, there are now many tools to help manage Covid-19…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Turning down the racket isn’t just for disgruntled parents — a new study has shown it could protect more than 1…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The rate of premature birth in the United States is climbing, according to the infant and maternal health nonprofit March…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The respiratory virus season has started early in kids this year and flooded children’s hospitals in many parts of the…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The five-year lung cancer survival rate has increased 21%, from 21% in 2014 to 25% in 2018, making what experts call…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Higher Covid-19 vaccination rates among US children could prevent thousands of pediatric hospitalizations and millions of…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN An experimental treatment, gantenerumab, failed to help people at high risk of memory loss from Alzheimer’s or those who…

By Jen Christensen, CNN There has been a steady increase in the number of children who are seen in emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts, according…

By Casey Barber, CNN As iconic Thanksgiving dishes go, stuffing is likely runner-up only to turkey as the dish most often on the dining table.…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Spreading kindness not only helps others feel better about themselves — it can also boost the giver’s health and…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A mindfulness meditation course may be as effective at reducing anxiety as a common medication, according to a new study. The…

By Brenda Goodman and Deidre McPhillips, CNN Even before their daughter was born in June, Aaron and Helen Chavez knew she would need heart surgery.…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN When a family arrived at Koch Funeral Home in State College, Pennsylvania, to identify a loved one before cremation, Monroe…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN About half of the US — 22 states, along with Washington, DC, New York City and Puerto Rico — is reporting high…

By Jen Christensen, CNN A new study estimates that 1 in 50 deaths of otherwise healthy children under age 5 around the world is due to a common virus…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Health care professionals may now have a way to identify possible eating disorder cases a year before they would have been…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN With Thanksgiving just two weeks away, people who are eligible for an updated Covid-19 vaccine booster but still…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A deadly outbreak of listeria in six states has been linked to contaminated deli meat and cheese, the US Centers for Disease…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Scientists have transfused lab-made red blood cells into a human volunteer in a world-first trial that experts say has major…