Health

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Health care professionals may now have a way to identify possible eating disorder cases a year before they would have been…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN With Thanksgiving just two weeks away, people who are eligible for an updated Covid-19 vaccine booster but still…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A deadly outbreak of listeria in six states has been linked to contaminated deli meat and cheese, the US Centers for Disease…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Scientists have transfused lab-made red blood cells into a human volunteer in a world-first trial that experts say has major…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Six supplements that people commonly take for heart health don’t help lower “bad” cholesterol or improve…

By Casey Barber, CNN If you’re feeling ruffled by recent reports that turkey prices are on the rise, don’t panic. There’s no need…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The end of Daylight Saving Time is upon us again, an autumn tradition when the United States, Europe, most of Canada and a…

By Katia Hetter and Stephen Mays, CNN It’s almost time for clocks to “spring forward” one hour. On the second Sunday of March, at 2…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech said Friday that the immune responses against Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants were “substantially…

Opinion by Dr. Tom Frieden and Precious Matsoso In late June of this year, Ghana’s health authorities received some disturbing news: Two cases…

By Jen Christensen, CNN A preventive treatment for lower respiratory tract infections caused by RSV got the go ahead from the European Commission on…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The first new type of antibiotic developed in more than 20 years to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) appears to be so…

By Raenu Charles, CNN Parents and caregivers should not use infant head-shaping pillows meant to change an infant’s head shape or that claim to…

By Katia Hetter, CNN Welcome to this year’s flu season. This year’s flu strain has already begun spreading across the United States,…

By Angela Duckworth, CNN Decades before George Takei became Mr. Sulu on the original “Star Trek” series, he was imprisoned for a crime he…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN High levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, have been detected in more brands and batches of dry shampoo products,…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Although health-care providers are not authorized to offer a medication abortion before a patient gets pregnant, some are…

By Jen Christensen, CNN People in the US with high blood pressure saw their levels rise during the first eight months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Owais Durrani sees this issue regularly first-hand: When he clamps a pulse oximeter…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Pfizer says it has enough promising data on its respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine designed to protect newborns that…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN It’s shaping up to be a severe season for respiratory syncytial virus infections — one of the worst some doctors…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN After nearly three years of the pandemic, national test scores for students aren’t where educators hoped they would…