CNN – Health

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Influenza is continuing its early and severe rampage through the United States, but there’s some hopeful news for flu…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling to the lowest it has been…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Brook was 34 years old when her use of alcohol escalated, a way of coping with a breast cancer diagnosis. “I just…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN A flu season that hit the United States early and hard is showing the first signs of slowing in parts of the country. For…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Although the updated Covid-19 vaccines don’t offer complete protection against a trip to the hospital or urgent care,…

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN There are more than 600 muscles in the human body, and it’s impossible to strengthen each and every one. Yet…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Just when you thought it was safe for a holiday visit with your Auntie Mary and her fragile health, RSV and the flu reared…

By Nadia Kounang, CNN A new study finds that nearly 6% of the estimated 130 million people who go to US emergency rooms every year are misdiagnosed,…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Humans weren’t the only ones that lost their lives after being exposed to an aromatherapy spray linked to fatal cases…

By Martha Shade, CNN Meira Va’a Nelson is a champion surfer who has known more trauma in her life than most people will ever experience. When…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Drug overdose deaths in the United States have slowed in recent months after reaching record levels earlier this year. New…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Long Covid leaves some people with long-term symptoms, but it can be deadly, too. It played a part in at least 3,544 deaths…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN An experimental personalized mRNA vaccine in combination with the immunotherapy Keytruda reduced the risk of recurrence or…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The Covid-19 vaccines have kept more than 18.5 million people in the US out of the hospital and saved more than 3.2 million…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Ever since they met in the fifth grade, Bob Pettit said his wife has always been the life of the party, a social butterfly…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Flu surged in the United States after Thanksgiving, bringing the most severe week yet in a season that hit the county extra…

By Brenda Goodman and Raenu Charles, CNN Grant’s Pass Pharmacy in southern Oregon is down to its last few boxes of children’s…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Months after most mask requirements have come to an end and many people have stopped wearing them, some of the…

By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News It wasn’t the Thanksgiving holiday any of us had expected. Two weeks before, my 94-year-old father-in-law,…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Colon cancer has claimed another life. Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley, best known for her roles in the…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN More than 1,200 pregnant and postpartum women died of a drug overdose in the US in 2020, with overdoses involved in more…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Hearing aids might be an important tool in the effort to prevent cognitive decline and dementia, according to a new study.…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted an application to the US Food and Drug Administration for their updated Covid-19 vaccine…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Some people suffering pain from cancer and other chronic diseases turn to marijuana to ease their suffering, but much of that…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The brains of US teens have physically changed during the Covid-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says. The…