CNN – Health

By Michael Nedelman, CNN A loophole that vaping companies have used to circumvent regulators and keep their products on shelves closed this week,…

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization to the first Covid-19 test that spots…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN During the pandemic, Malena Dell sat in her car at a gas station for 45 minutes crying because she couldn’t touch the…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Get up and move — even small doses of physical activity, such as brisk walking, may substantially lower the risk of…

By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN The flurry of new abortion restrictions across mostly Republican-led states leaves neighboring states to fill the gap in…

By Katia Hetter, CNN As the United States navigates a third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, cases are rising modestly in the Northeast, Philadelphia…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The unprecedented rise in drug overdose deaths in the United States continues, reaching another record high, according to…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Covid-19 case numbers have begun to edge up in the United States, and nearly all of them are caused by the Omicron subvariant…

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN Data published Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that rates of sexually transmitted…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Philadelphia will reinstate indoor mask mandates Monday, April 18, as its Covid-19 cases quickly rise, the city’s…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Certain personality traits may be a key factor in whether people develop mild cognitive impairment later in life, a new study…

By Dejania Oliver, CNN As Covid-19 numbers reach pandemic lows across the United States, many Covid-19 testing sites have begun closing their doors.…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The health care work force in the US had huge turnover at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic but seems to be getting back to…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Life expectancy in the United States took another hit in 2021, furthering a dramatic decline from 2020 that was the largest…

By Naomi Thomas, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Wednesday that he thinks there…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Your good friends may be able to help you get out of a jam. They may be good listeners and they may be good at keeping you…

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Most Americans say the way they conduct their lives is still affected to some extent by the pandemic, according to a new…

By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN Watching an ad in which former President Donald Trump promoted Covid-19 vaccines was linked to increased vaccinations in US…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Covid-19 has become a chronic condition for tens of millions of people — and an expensive one, as well. Long Covid…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Maybe BA.2 really is the “stealth variant.” The Omicron subvariant caused as many as 3 in 4 cases of Covid-19 in…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN An additional 42 genes connected to the development of Alzheimer’s disease have been uncovered in the largest study of…

By Jen Christensen, CNN A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine seems to offer short-lived protection against infection overall, but…

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN A new study found that women in the US face the highest rates of preventable and maternal mortality when compared with…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration are scheduled to meet Wednesday to get a clearer picture of what the future…

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN Two new pieces of research highlight the broader effects of gun violence on health and examine how early intervention on…

By John Bonifield, CNN US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced a sweeping review of the nation’s…

By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN Pandemic hospitalization rates are at new lows, the vast majority of US counties have low community levels of the coronavirus,…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Interest in using wastewater surveillance to monitor Covid-19 continues to grow in the United States, as the values of the…