CNN – Health

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Oprah Winfrey was the first Black woman Whitney Trotter saw on TV –– and the first television figure…

By Matt Stiles and Way Mullery, CNN (CNN) — New Covid-19 infections are no longer tracked or reported as closely as they were during the public…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Even after a hurricane’s immediate flooding threat goes away, residents could face a host of…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Four more health-care workers who tended to a person hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu have revealed that they had…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — For the younger generation, “chroming” is the new huffing. The dangerous practice is a means of getting high…

By Michelle Icard, CNN (CNN) — As a parenting author, I travel the country speaking at schools about the complicated social changes that happen…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — All nine members of the Tufts University men’s lacrosse team who were hospitalized this month with the rare…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — If you haven’t prepared already, the time is here. Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall Thursday…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — People in the United States who identify as transgender or nonbinary make up only a tiny fraction of the…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — People in the United States can now order more free Covid-19 tests from the federal government as the country…

By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — What if “diet” wasn’t a dirty word? During Suzy Karadsheh’s childhood in Port Said, Egypt, diet culture was…

By Katherine Dillinger and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — A death in New York has been linked with a listeria outbreak connected to recalled…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Those in the LGBTQ+ community may have a higher risk of adverse brain health outcomes compared with straight…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — More than a third of children around the world were nearsighted in 2023, and this proportion will rise to almost 40%…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Major cell phone carriers have started to adopt a new technology that helps direct callers to the 988 suicide…

By Meg Tirrell and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — While grilling Novo Nordisk’s chief executive over the price of its blockbuster diabetes and…

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN (CNN) — A devoted meditator, Eli Susman wanted to deepen his practice, and his meditation journey took him across…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 200 chemicals connected to breast cancer are used in the making of food packaging and plastic tableware,…

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Three men’s lacrosse players at Tufts University remain hospitalized after a…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US government plans to make more at-home Covid-19 tests available for free this month as the country…

By Faye Chiu, CNN (CNN) — Rates of enterovirus D68 infections are on the rise across the United States, according to the…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A third close contact of a patient in Missouri who was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has reported that they…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — For some young people, a popular method for getting a quick high is by misusing laughing gas — and lately,…

By Brenda Goodman and Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first flu vaccine that does not have to be…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Exposure to heavy metals has been linked to cancer, neurological harms, and reproductive or developmental…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Trade Commission took action Friday against the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers,…

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — Trying to convince your kid to eat their food can be a struggle. The tears, the tantrums – many…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Can you tell what ingredients went into your lunch today? Whether or not you can easily identify the contents…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — They won’t get you buzzed, but some experts say low-alcohol and alcohol-free beers and mocktails shouldn’t…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Two Georgia mothers, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, died in 2022 because of a lack of care most likely tied to the…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Can a popular medication used to change your body also be affecting your mood? It’s a question that some…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at cholera, an acute diarrheal infection that has killed thousands of people worldwide. Facts…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — After an in-depth analysis of the genetic material from hundreds of swabs taken from the walls, floors, machines…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — If your child sometimes has trouble sleeping, it may be easy to chalk it up to a phase they will grow out of one…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Federal data shows that overdose deaths in the United States are the lowest they’ve been in three years,…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The US spends more on health care than any other high-income country, but a new report suggests that…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Following the MIND diet for 10 years produced a small but significant decrease in the risk of developing…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Certain blockbuster weight-loss drugs have been found to protect the heart in significant ways, and new…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — With so many parents wanting their children to get more exercise, a backyard trampoline might seem like a good…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — A morning cup of coffee may do more than just perk you up, according to new research. Moderate amounts of…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Jared Holz thought about taking one of the new GLP-1 drugs for weight loss for months before he actually filled the…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — More than 3,600 chemicals that leach into food during the manufacturing, processing, packaging and storage of…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The number of lives lost around the world due to infections that are resistant to the medications intended to…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Tiny plastic shards and fibers were found in the nose tissue of human cadavers, according to a small new study.…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy,…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — It’s that time of year when any cough or sniffle could be Covid-19, flu or RSV — but there are ways to…