CNN – Health

By Jen Christensen, CNN At age 14, Alexander Neville was still very much a curious kid. He was a Boy Scout who enjoyed getting outdoors and camping.…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The BA.2 virus — a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant — isn’t just spreading faster than its…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder in which people stop breathing for 10 seconds or more at a time. Snoring…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN High-quality masks for children soon might be easier to find in the United States, if government plans come to fruition.…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Drug overdose deaths have doubled over the past six years, soaring in recent months amid the Covid-19 pandemic and…

By Caleb Hellerman When her son bounced up the steep stone steps and through the door of the house he shared with his mother and father, Gina…

By Deidre McPhillips and Holly Yan, CNN While new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations keep tumbling, more than 2,000 Americans are still dying every…

By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN A US woman has become the third known person who’s gone into HIV remission, and the first mixed-race woman, thanks to a…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Getting vaccinated against Covid-19 during pregnancy could offer some protection to babies after they’re born, too.…

By Megan Marples, CNN Oh no. Your vaccine card is missing. You’ve searched your car, emptied your purse or backpack and torn apart your house,…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The Biden administration is making another push for telehealth and other digital disease-monitoring tools to become…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The timeline for when children younger than 5 in the United States might start receiving Covid-19 vaccinations has just…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines are safe, and they offer high levels of protection…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized a new monoclonal antibody treatment that seems to work against the Omicron…

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent At one point at the beginning of the pandemic, there was hope that a popular and inexpensive…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Yet another tragedy has occurred in the aftermath of the devastating gun massacre Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,…

By Jen Christensen, CNN At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, local mask mandates are disappearing as quickly as toilet paper did from grocery…

By Carma Hassan, CNN People should not delay getting a mammogram because of a recent Covid-19 vaccination, a new study says. It’s common for…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid-19 hospitalizations are dropping quickly in the United States, but a heavy burden persists, and the nation’s…

By Katia Hetter, CNN Oregon’s health department and the governors of Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey have announced when their states will…

By Jacqueline Howard and Nadia Kounang, CNN The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is standing by the agency’s mask…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Changing what you eat could add up to 13 years to your life, according to a newly published study, especially if you start…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As many states see declines in their daily Covid-19 case numbers and hospitalization rates, some have moved forward with…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Though the Omicron coronavirus variant may have a reputation for causing a much milder form of Covid-19, in January, Dr.…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Want to lose weight from sleeping? Try extending your sleep time so you are not sleep deprived. That’s the startling…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The Covid-19 crisis is nearing the second anniversary of the pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization, on…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Like many girls in high school, Ella (not her real name) had days where she struggled with self-esteem. “I was able to…

By Jamie Gumbrecht and Carma Hassan, CNN US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed a recommendation from…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Three days before Thanksgiving, a planeload of passengers from South Africa touched down in San Francisco. One of them was a…

By Jen Christensen and Brenda Goodman, CNN About 18 million children under the age of 5 in the United States could soon be eligible to get a Covid-19…

By Katia Hetter, CNN A new subvariant of Omicron is spreading rapidly in some parts of the world. This spinoff from the original Omicron variant,…