CNN – Health

By Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN (CNN) — The death of NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch, whose family said he had severe pneumonia that…

By Antoinette Radford, CNN Doha, Qatar (CNN) — I have a gym class this evening, Pilates on Tuesday and an interview on Wednesday. I write them…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Journalist Kara Swisher reads quotes about death every day. She isn’t being morbid or wallowing in sadness;…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had mental disorders in 2023, reflecting a 95.5% increase since 1990, a new…

By Meg Tirrell, Aaron Cooper, Jennifer Hansler, Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Amid a fast-moving Ebola outbreak, the US government is expanding…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Pregnant women are routinely advised to take prenatal vitamins for their health and their baby’s development.…

CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is spreading fast and presents a high risk…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Common preservatives used in many store-bought foods to kill bacteria and mold were linked to a 29% greater risk…

By Alex Leeds Matthews, Lou Robinson, Annette Choi, Henrik Pettersson, Gillian Roberts, CNN (CNN) — The World Health Organization has declared…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Too much screen use among kids and teens – including endless social media scrolling, nonstop texting and…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. quietly removed the two top leaders of a key preventive…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is spreading fast and presents a high risk at…

By Brenda Goodman, Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN (CNN) — An American passenger who was exposed to the Andes strain of hantavirus on the…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at its last stop Monday. Now the waiting begins. The…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — It’s time to stock up on sunscreen, but few choices on store shelves today are both safe and effective,…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from the most dangerous…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — If you want to live a long and healthy life, you’d be better off in South Korea than the United States. In…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Social media trends are fueling a dangerous form of substance use among teenagers in the United States involving…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Concerns about whether antidepressants cause harms to developing fetuses, including neurodevelopmental…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to slowing down our biological aging, engaging with arts and culture is as beneficial as physical…

CNN By Erin Burnett, Katherine Dillinger, Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, a passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship who…

By Erin Burnett, Katherine Dillinger, Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Stephen Kornfeld, a passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship who had…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — A condition that can impact women’s fertility and diabetes risk goes undiagnosed in many cases, but experts…

By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Chef Hillary Sterling has worked in kitchens with culinary icons such as Bobby Flay and Missy Robbins. Sterling has…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Since the first sign of an outbreak, the reminders have come from government officials, health agencies and…

By Ian Kerner, CNN (CNN) — Walking on eggshells. Avoiding each other. Silencing yourself. If you’re engaging in those behaviors, your…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Two of Liza Ginette’s kids don’t speak to her, and she is proud of them for it. From the outside, it…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Say everyone had a best friend who was always available, never judgmental, totally on the same page about…

CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Health authorities across several countries are racing to trace and contain an outbreak of hantavirus after…

By Adam Cancryn, Brenda Goodman, Jennifer Hansler, Deidre McPhillips, Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The director general of the World Health…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Access to medication abortion has changed and then changed again over the past week, leaving doctors and…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Health authorities across several countries are racing to trace and contain an outbreak of hantavirus after the…

By MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Cailen Vela of Fruitport, Michigan, died Tuesday after fighting cancer for three years, his family announced. He was…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, health authorities in southern Argentina were racing, trying to understand what had caused nearly three…

By Kara Alaimo (CNN) — Think DMing your friends on TikTok or Instagram will keep you closer? Not necessarily. Using social media isn’t likely…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Like on many other days, the last thing Leah Coplon did before she left work Friday was to check a litigation…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce “overprescribing” of…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — A viral trend claims that a combination of common over-the-counter medications, specifically an allergy drug and…

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Hantavirus, a rare disease typically caused by exposure to infected rodents’ urine or feces, is suspected…

By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Nir Eyal started to get heart palpitations, dry mouth and sweaty armpits when he was about to talk to a large crowd.…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — How’s the weather up there? Standing at nearly 5 feet 2 inches tall, I’ve rarely been able to reach the highest…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — It’s exciting to think of bionic humans who have cracked the code to stop aging. But perhaps less glamorous…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Tens of thousands of young children are injured every year by common household items that many parents don’t…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — After a potluck supper, a short guided meditation and a quick lesson in resistance singing, a couple…

By Caleb Hellerman (CNN) — Lung cancer kills more Americans than any other form of cancer: more than prostate cancer and colon cancer combined,…

By Kara Alaimo, CNN (CNN) — To protect kids from the harms of social media, some of us have proposed banning social networks for young people…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The measles outbreak in South Carolina — the largest the United States has had in decades — has ended,…

By Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN (CNN) — After years of preparation, college applications and some acceptances, I thought the stress of my senior…

By Victoria Robinson, as told to Andrea Kane, CNN | Photographs by Brenda Bazán for CNN (CNN) — One in 31: That’s the estimated number of…

By Jacqueline Howard, Ben Tinker, CNN (CNN) — Some psychedelic drugs, once considered fringe, are getting a step closer to possibly being…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — A vaccine long framed as protection against cervical cancer in women is now showing clear benefits for men. Boys…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Measles crept into Utah and Arizona in June, with reports trickling into local health departments of patients…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Less than a year after remaking a key vaccine advisory committee, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first gene therapy for inherited hearing loss, a…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Over 62 million Americans — roughly 1 in 5 people — may be exposed to potentially dangerous levels of…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be…

By Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN (CNN) — In my clinic, one of the first things I hear from men facing a fertility issue is often the same: “I…

By Michal Ruprecht, Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Psychedelic drugs, once pushed to the fringes of medicine, are gaining serious attention…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The American Lung Association calls it a “grim indication of the deterioration of air quality nationwide”:…

By Sarah Owermohle, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had another long day on Capitol Hill…

By Michal Ruprecht, CNN (CNN) — Millions of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for health answers. Doctors are, too. But the ways doctors are…

By Caleb Hellerman (CNN) — Vita Sara Blechner’s life changed on a Saturday afternoon. The middle school librarian was home in Oceanside, New…

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN (CNN) — When I started filming the first “Weed” documentary back in 2012, I could not have predicted where this…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — You have a problem? There is probably a product that claims to solve it –– especially in the longevity…

By Kara Alaimo, CNN (CNN) — Ever wonder why your kid goes ballistic when you try to take their screen away? It’s mostly not their fault. That…

By Sarah Owermohle, Brenda Goodman, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control…

By Adam Cancryn, Michal Ruprecht, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order in the coming days that will…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — You get home from a long trip and see a scribbled note is waiting for you on the table. “Call me. We need to…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Move more. Sit less. For many years, that’s been accepted guidance for people wanting to get healthier. Now that…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — For the majority of people who start using GLP-1 medicines with the hope of losing weight, the drugs can feel…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The image looks like a slice of highly marbled flesh, reminiscent of a high-end steak with abundant fine-grained…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — The search for immortality is a tale as old as time, but it certainly has taken on a new look. The ancient…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has approved changes to rules that govern an expert…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — If you have ever tossed and turned under heavy blankets, you’ve felt firsthand how being too warm can wreck your…

By Deidre McPhillips, Alicia Wallace, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Eating a high-quality plant-rich diet that includes whole grains, vegetables and fruits may prevent cognitive…

By Michal Ruprecht, CNN (CNN) — Marriage has existed for thousands of years – and it was once “almost universal,” according to Dr. Andrew…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — When did you last discuss how to poop or how digestion works? Dr. Trisha Pasricha wants to know, because if…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — It’s not just how much time you spend sitting, but what you’re doing while sitting that may affect your…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Respiratory syncytial virus is continuing to spread later into the spring than usual, driving most states to…

By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — If you exercise regularly but still deal with recurring aches, stiffness or movements that never feel as stable and…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — In 2021, as the Covid-19 pandemic was in full swing, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory…

By Sandee LaMotte, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — How do microplastics and pharmaceutical medications affect the safety of the nation’s tap…

By Hadia Zainab, CNN (CNN) — Val Stones, the “Great British Baking Show” star, was walking across a field to a nearby school meeting when…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A heavily mutated variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 appears to be affecting primarily children,…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Federal health officials are investigating a multistate outbreak of an especially dangerous type of E. coli…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the second GLP-1 pill for weight loss, adding another…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Two chemicals used to make plastic more flexible are linked to nearly 2 million premature births and the deaths…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Daniel Halas startled himself the first time he caught his reflection after shaving his head. Halas was walking to…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — For decades, surviving a heart attack has come with a lifelong prescription: Stay on medications called…

By Caleb Hellerman (CNN) — Andy Henard is used to doing things for himself. That’s the way to run a successful ranch and farming operation in…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Calls to poison centers in the United States about the widely available herb kratom increased more than 1,200%…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — In a large gathering space at the C.A. Scott Recreation Center on the northwest side of Atlanta, an instructor…

By Brenda Goodman, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration had been expected to nominate a new director for the US Centers for…

By Kara Alaimo, CNN (CNN) — When Ej Dickson was told by her son’s preschool teacher that her son might be struggling, some people told…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Leafy greens such as spinach and kale and perennial kid favorites such as strawberries and grapes held the…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — A surprisingly simple measure may offer clues about longevity. Muscular strength, as determined by two tests, was…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Five requirements. Seventy-five days. No breaks and no room for mistakes. That’s the premise of 75 Hard, a…