CNN – Health

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The failed execution of Christa Pike Wednesday night in Tennessee wasn’t the first time a lethal injection…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Nearly all tested cat foods contain toxic plastic contaminants, the herbicide glyphosate and heavy metals such…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Sugary foods combined with antibiotic treatment can damage the gut microbiome in ways that could leave people…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Sudden unexpected infant death claimed the lives of about 3,400 babies in the United States in 2024. Despite…

By Deidre McPhillips, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported a fifth measles-associated death on Wednesday…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — There is a link between the amount of time children spend on screens and their development, a new study shows, with…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 93% of known plastic chemicals used to wrap food and make clothes, toys, and other common household and…

Text by Madeline Holcombe, and video by Bryce Urbany, CNN (CNN) — One thing that seems to unite people is how isolated they feel. As many as 1…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Despite increasing awareness about mental health, suicide is often still heavily stigmatized and therefore…

By Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN (CNN) — After years of caring for college students as a physician, plus raising two of my own, I have learned that many…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — One day in 2008, when she was in her early 20s, Jaimie Krems stumbled across Gchat messages between one of her…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Going without sleep makes it harder to concentrate and learn new information. And for people who work overnight or…

By Amanda Schupak, CNN Kids who have their own smartphones at age 12 are more likely to develop eating disorder symptoms than their peers without the…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Heidi Overton, President Trump’s nominee to lead the US Food and Drug Administration, appeared to break…

By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — Whether you’re heading into a pickleball match, a strength-training session or out to do yard work, it’s easy…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Most people don’t worry about their cardiovascular health until they get older. But strokes, one type of…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Candi Wilmot and her 9-year-old daughter Adeline were at the theater watching “Snow White,” the 2025…

By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — Nearly seven years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Brian P. Lee has seen signs that rates of alcohol…

By Brenda Goodman, Jacqueline Howard and Michal Ruprecht, CNN (CNN) — Ibogaine, a psychoactive compound made from the roots of an African…

By Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The book was wrong, my 4-year-old insisted as we read about bugs before bed. “Cockroaches lay…

By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — There was that time I was struggling to carry a mattress over my head and walked into a wall. There was also a view…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — After the collapse came the dust. It billowed across Lower Manhattan in the wake of the 2001 World Trade Center…

By Deidre McPhillips, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration is planning to recommend that certain…

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — One-third of women in the United States have struggled to get doctors to take their symptoms seriously,…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Brad Pitt’s recent revelation that he’s drinking again in “a more restrained manner,” after seven years…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Amid the worst measles outbreak in the US in decades, a surge that’s been driven largely by unvaccinated…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The federal government approved updated Covid-19 vaccines for the 2026-27 respiratory virus season last…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Smoking cigarettes doesn’t just cause lung cancer. The toxic smoke affects nearly every organ in the body —…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A fourth person with measles has died in Pennsylvania, the state announced Tuesday — marking the first time…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Wednesday’s Senate confirmation hearing wasn’t the first time much of the American public met Dr. Nicole…

By Amanda Schupak, CNN The secret is out: Eating whole grains is good for you. Extensive research in the past two decades has shown that a diet rich…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania has reported a fourth death related to measles, the latest in a growing outbreak that…

By Cordilia James, CNN (CNN) — Since April, Matthew Juhren has spent up to 75 hours a week working remotely from his home office near Portland,…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A 40-year-old woman who lived in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, has died from measles complications, the county…

By Lauren DePino, CNN (CNN) — Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles knows what it’s like to live in fear of her grief eating her alive. “I felt…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that exposure to rabies appears to be on the…

By Jacqueline Howard, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that this summer’s outbreak…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Young children explore the world by touching, tasting and putting things in their mouths. That curiosity can…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — A study of nearly a million people has found new evidence to suggest that drinking scalding hot coffees…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Even a small amount of light exposure during sleep may change the shape and function of heart muscles,…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — When you have blood drawn in a routine doctor’s visit, some of the markers that get tested could hold…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A new study found that some girls born to mothers who took acetaminophen during pregnancy developed…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — If you’re watching your daily step count, you may be overlooking another important part of the equation: your…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A lot is riding on the shiny green backs of large red-eyed sterile flies that scientists from the United…

Ian Kerner (CNN) — Who wants to date these days? My patients tell me the apps have turned dating into a competitive marketplace marked by quick…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Local health departments in North Carolina have evaluated hundreds of people for rabies after they interacted…

By Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A girl born in Pennsylvania with a rare neurological disorder called Amish lethal microcephaly died…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Everyone farts. But not everyone tracks their farts. Now, smart underwear is making a case for paying closer…

By Caleb Hellerman and Laila Johnson-Salami (CNN) — The small business owner was diagnosed with appendicitis. The university lecturer and the…