Health

By Jen Christensen, CNN On Thursday, Claire Holland graduated from sixth grade. It was a happy day. She made the honor roll and she won her…

Brenda Goodman The global toll of sudden and unexplained hepatitis in children has risen to 621 cases from 34 countries, the European Centre for…

By Brenda Goodman, Jacqueline Howard and Michael Nedelman, CNN As waves of new coronavirus variants circulate the globe, one thing has become clear:…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)…

By Brenda Goodman and Nadia Kounang, CNN Three-year-old Alexis Tyler survives on Gerber Lil Crunchies cheese puffs and the chocolate flavor of a…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The United States is preparing to welcome more displaced Ukrainians now that the Biden administration has approved the…

By David G. Allan, CNN If you really think about it, so many of us should be in a perpetual state of gratitude. Which of these do you have going for…

By Nadia Kounang and Jennifer Henderson, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is collaborating with Massachusetts health officials…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges counties with high Covid-19 community levels to…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN A doctor at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, says he admitted two young patients — a toddler…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid-19 surveillance is at a crossroads in the United States. With at-home tests now outnumbering those done in…

By Katia Hetter, CNN Covid-19 infections are on the rise, with most US states reporting an increase in cases. According to the US Centers for Disease…

By Lisa Drayer, CNN Portion sizes of some of your favorite foods have been getting bigger and bigger. Ultraprocessed foods and beverages, including…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN More than one million people have now died of Covid-19 in the US since the pandemic’s start, according to Tuesday…

By Amanda Sealy, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for a booster dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s…

By Jen Christensen, CNN A blood test to screen for prostate cancer may be better at doing so than experts originally thought, particularly among…

By John Duffy, CNN Over the past several weeks, it seems like nearly every day Americans find ourselves processing another mass shooting. Over time,…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the 2001 anthrax attacks, also referred to as Amerithrax. Facts about anthrax There are three types of…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about sarin, a man-made nerve agent developed for chemical warfare. Facts Sarin is a…

CNN Editorial Research West Nile virus (WNV) is primarily transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. More than 2,600 people have died of West Nile…

By Harry Enten, CNN My first memories of bathing were of my mom dragging me into the bathtub kicking and screaming. Those days are long gone, and…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The day they wheeled 2-year-old Baelyn Schwab into surgery to get a new liver, her skin was orange, and she was delirious.…

By Katherine Dillinger and Jen Christensen, CNN Australian researchers say they’ve identified one potential biomarker for sudden infant death…

By Elizabeth Cohen and Danielle Herman, CNN For more than a year, Americans have been vaccinated for free against Covid-19, but many of the…

By Chloe Melas, CNN “Who wants spaghetti?” I call out to my children as I peer into our pantry. “Me!” scream my two sons,…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at information and statistics concerning vaccines in the United States. For vaccines related to…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Drug overdoses in the United States were deadlier than ever in 2021, according to provisional data from the US Centers for…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Since Covid-19 vaccines became widely available, there has been a wide gap in deaths between the vaccinated and…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease. The most severe and most common form of…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at autism. Autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) incorporates a group of neurodevelopmental disorders…