CNN – Health

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics, exported around the globe. However, biomedical…

CNN By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — One day in September, I stood in front of my open refrigerator, ravenous but unable to figure out what I should…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Despite a relatively slow start to respiratory disease season, low vaccination rates threaten that trend and…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Your child has been asking for one for so long, and the holiday season might be the time –– especially if…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — Cucumbers distributed to more than two dozen US states and Canada are being recalled after 68 reported…

CNN By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 80 million Americans are expected to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday, including many of you. As…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Up to 90% of people who menstruate experience pain during their periods. For some, that pain is severe and…

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — More than 10,000 cartons of organic eggs sold at Costco stores are being recalled due to concerns about potential…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — If you’re a candle lover, you have probably seen some brands offer soy or beeswax versions as natural…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — One day in September, I stood in front of my open refrigerator, ravenous but unable to figure out what I should…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Sleeping and waking up at different times is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, even for…

By Lex Harvey and Sam Tupper, CNN (CNN) — California health officials are warning not to drink another lot of raw milk from Fresno-based Raw…

By David G. Allan, CNN (CNN) — Logically speaking, we should be in a perpetual state of gratitude. Most people who read this column, even if…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 80 million Americans are expected to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday, including many of you. As family…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — People in the United States who have HIV and need kidney or liver transplants can now receive organs from…

Essay by David G. Allan, CNN (CNN) — At a Thanksgiving gathering three decades ago, I went cold turkey on eating meat. When I look back at that…

By Andrea Kane, CNN Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the US Department of Health and Human…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Men at risk for heart disease may develop dementia up to a decade earlier than similarly at-risk women, a new…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The announcements came Friday night, one after another, President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for the…

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN (CNN) — Here’s a secret that’s not really a secret — many people pee in the shower. Maybe you’re one of…

By Sam Tupper, CNN (CNN) — Bird flu virus has been found in a batch of raw milk sold in California, and consumers should not drink it, the…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Susan Wojcicki, the late CEO of YouTube, had a message for the world just weeks before she passed.…

By Jack Hillcox, CNN London (CNN) — The journey to the London City Runners clubhouse is a test of willpower in many ways. If the thought of a…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Vaping has an immediate effect on how well the user’s blood vessels work, even if the e-cigarette doesn’t…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — When she used to visit her in-laws during the holidays, Dana Santas and her husband kept to their schedule…

By Sam Tupper, CNN (CNN) — A surge of stress-related drinking and alcohol-related deaths brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic in the US has not…

By Soph Warnes, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his Health and Human Services secretary and…

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — A listeria outbreak linked with ready-to-eat meat and poultry products from Yu Shang Food Inc. has caused…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — For more than four decades, scientists have noticed a mysterious chemical in the treated drinking water of…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The weather is getting chilly in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but cold weather doesn’t mean that you…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — Wolverine Packing Co. is recalling more than 167,000 pounds of ground beef shipped to restaurants due to…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US Drug Enforcement Administration says that less fentanyl is present in the nation’s illicit pill…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Tantrums over misplaced toys, meltdowns sparked by sibling conflicts and outbursts over screen-time restrictions…

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Many risk factors can lead to a stroke, but the magnitude of risk from some of these conditions or behaviors may have…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Doing more aerobic exercise in middle age and old age may reduce the risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s…

By Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — An inspection this year of a Tom’s of Maine’s facility in Sanford, Maine, turned up several violations,…

By Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — A child in California is recovering at home from a confirmed case of bird flu. They are the first child in the…

CNN By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Derek Pfaff remembers being under a lot of stress throughout college. He remembers coming home from school…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Sitting at your desk all day may put you at greater risk for heart disease –– even if you work out in…

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — An E. coli outbreak linked to recalled carrots has led to dozens of illnesses in 18 states and one death,…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Is Ozempic Right For You?” at 8 p.m. Sunday, November 17, on…

By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Julia Turshen wants you to break the rules. Once she was ruled by weighing or measuring everything to the gram or…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — The United States’ first known case of a more severe strain of mpox was confirmed in California, the US…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — In a busy world, the task of getting more movement into your daily life can often get put on the back burner.…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Picture this — thousands of screenshots, unopened texts and emails, and a looming notification that your…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Despite decades of calls for more attention to patient safety in hospitals, people undergoing surgery still have…

CNN By Meg Tirrell and Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the US…

By Meg Tirrell and Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the US Department…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Is Ozempic Right For You?” at 8 p.m. Sunday, November 17,…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, the World Health…

Text by Casey Barber and illustrations by Alberto Mier, CNN (CNN) — I always think of Thanksgiving as the Super Bowl of food holidays. No…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Being rushed to a hospital nearly two hours away, in the middle of a dangerous spring storm – with fear in…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — More than 800 million adults worldwide are living with diabetes, according to a new study in the journal The…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Major retailers are failing to protect consumers from hazardous chemicals and plastics in the products they…

CNN By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Ash Perez recently tried some new things. He got a haircut at a barbershop, bought his first suit,…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Ash Perez recently tried some new things. He got a haircut at a barbershop, bought his first suit, learned to…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday. The…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Online sales of emergency contraceptives, like the morning-after pill Plan B, have skyrocketed in the United…

By Sam Tupper, CNN (CNN) — Although sales of tobacco products have been restricted in hundreds of municipalities across the US, a new study is…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — In early October, Avery Davis Bell learned that she was about to lose the baby she and her husband very much…

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN (CNN) — Aching knees are surprisingly common. While you may be tempted to hang out on the couch if one or both…

By Jemal Polson, CNN (CNN) — If you like Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” Fall Out Boy’s “Dance, Dance” and Gwen Stefani’s…

By Jessica DuLong, CNN (CNN) — Cynicism is on the rise. Should that come as any surprise given today’s divisive global conflicts and our…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Despite a strong showing of support for abortion rights on Election Day, the abortion access landscape in the…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — No matter their political persuasion, many people may be feeling stressed and anxious during election week in the…

By Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration announced a proposal to remove oral phenylephrine – a common ingredient in…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Seven percent of tested workers on dairy farms where cows were infected with bird flu caught the virus…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Just five more minutes of exercise doesn’t sound so bad, right? Especially when such a small amount may…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Researchers are uncovering deeper insights into how the human brain ages and what factors may be tied to…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — If you find yourself sleepy during your daily activities in your older age, you may need to consider it more…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Compounded versions of semaglutide, the active ingredient in approved diabetes and obesity drugs Ozempic and…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — As the country wakes up to Donald Trump as the projected winner of the presidential election, there is one thing…

CNN By Andrea Kane, CNN Editor’s note: The podcast “Chasing Life” with Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s…

By Andrea Kane, CNN Editor’s note: The podcast “Chasing Life” with Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s…

By Sam Tupper, CNN (CNN) — The holiday season is nearly upon us and it’s easy for a child’s sweet tooth go wild. However, new research…

CNN By Nadia Kounang, Carma Hassan and Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waded into another scientific debate on Saturday by…

By Nadia Kounang, Carma Hassan and Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waded into another scientific debate on Saturday by…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Silas Mayes rolled into his local McDonald’s drive-through at lunchtime on Monday, October 7, and ordered his…

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — “Fall back” can’t be a bad thing, right? For someone with kids, however, the time change may be an unwelcome…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A headset worn at home that zaps the brain with the energy of a 9-volt battery could help relieve symptoms of…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Matthew Horsnell began falling asleep for no reason when he was in sixth grade. “I would go to bed at 8:30 at…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Giving birth to triplets, quadruplets or even more has become increasingly less common in the United States.…

By Kaan Ozcan, CNN New York (CNN) — Jazmin Evans was diagnosed with kidney disease at the age of 17 in 2012. She received a kidney transplant…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Fresh slivered onions served on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders were the likely source of an E. coli outbreak…

By Jamie Gumbrecht and Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a pig in the United States for the first time, the US…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — People who only exercise on weekends have a similar risk of developing mild dementia to those who work out more…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Half of the world’s population will undergo menopause if they live to middle age, but symptoms start occurring…

By Kristen Rogers and Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — Megan walked the halls of her suburban Houston junior high in shame. It was the first time she…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — “I’m going to let him go wild on health,” former President Donald Trump promised Sunday at his rally at…

By Sam Tupper, CNN (CNN) — Four free home Covid-19 antigen tests are available to order at COVIDTests.gov, part of the seventh round of the…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Patients visiting emergency departments for dehydration or nausea are half as likely to receive IV fluids now…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — A class of chemicals –– likely in products all over many homes in the United States –– could be…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A resident of eastern Iowa who had recently traveled to West Africa died after catching Lassa fever, state…

By Andrea Kane, CNN Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries…