Health

By Holly Yan, CNN Just as doctors feared, more children are getting hit hard by Covid-19 as the Delta variant tramples across the country. And the…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN For fully vaccinated Americans, the risk of being hospitalized or dying from Covid-19 is low — much lower than the…

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN The World Health Organization’s vaccine-sharing program COVAX forecasts an additional 1.1 billion Covid-19 vaccine…

By Dana Santas, CNN Some forgetfulness — like occasionally forgetting to pay a bill or recall a word — can be expected at any age. But…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Surging Covid-19 cases — and the increasing proportion reported in children — are causing many health experts…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN As more people get vaccinated against Covid-19 and the National Football League season starts September 9, you may be…

By Jacqueline Howard, Amir Vera and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Children now represent more than a quarter — or 26.8% — of weekly Covid-19…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Back-to-school after the Labor Day weekend could mean fresh spread of coronavirus unless schools take strong action to keep…

By Megan Marples, CNN Whether you smoke it, vape it or eat it as an edible, cannabis may be significantly increasing your risk of a heart attack.…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Like many new parents, René Marsh felt her life was “transformed” in March of 2019 when her newborn son Blake was…

By John Duffy, CNN Within the first several weeks of any school year, I receive dozens of calls from parents concerned about their increasingly…

By Ryan Prior and Kristen Rogers, CNN Can this year just stop already? It’s a thought ricocheting around the world as we cope with Covid-19,…

By Rob Picheta and Amir Tal, CNN One-year-old Israeli twin girls, who were born joined back-to-back at the head, have been separated after a rare and…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As she held up her cell phone to take back-to-school selfies with the new school resource officers last week, the…

By David G. Allan, CNN Our work-life balance has, to borrow a term we all learned in the 2020 Olympics, been feeling “the twisties”…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci says there’s an important step adults can take to protect children who are too young to be…

By Angela Dewan, CNN Human health is already being harmed by the climate crisis, and the impacts could become catastrophic and irreversible unless…

By John Bonifield, CNN Booster doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine may be delayed from rolling out the week of September 20 as planned, Dr.…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country this summer, health care workers and officials…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Ping! It’s the email you’ve been dreading — your child may have been exposed to Covid-19 at school. How are…

By Randi Kaye, CNN A Florida teen who spent 11 days on a ventilator after she contracted Covid-19 has a message for her peers and others. “My…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Health experts are reinforcing the point that full vaccination remains highly effective against severe illness and death…

By Luke McGee, CNN One of the greatest success stories of the Covid-19 crisis has hit an alarming bump in the road. The initial stages of the vaccine…

By Jen Christensen, CNN More children went to the hospital and emergency room in states with lower vaccination rates, according to a new study from…

By Casey Barber, CNN We’re all trying to make healthier choices, but when it comes to fish, is one type truly better than another?…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Kids are heading back into the classroom for yet another pandemic school year, but this time with the more contagious Delta…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the latest Covid-19 surge upending American life yet again, an official rollout of booster doses could begin within…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the opioid crisis. Experts say the United States is in the throes of an opioid epidemic. An estimated…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Anxiety is high among parents as more kids head back to school without the protection of a Covid-19 vaccine for at least a…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN A new study of breakthrough Covid-19 infections finds that vaccines not only reduce the risk of severe disease and…

By Travis Caldwell and Deidre McPhillips, CNN US states that saw some of the country’s worst Covid-19 case rates over the past week also…

By Maggie Fox, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has called a meeting of its vaccine advisers for September 17 to discuss…

By Holly Yan and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Those hit hardest by Hurricane Ida now face an even longer test of survival. Catastrophic damage means some…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN More than a million people have lost power during Hurricane Ida and its aftermath, and some are using backup generators to…