CNN – Health

By Megan Marples, CNN If you’ve ever considered donating blood, now is the time to take action. Blood donations are absolutely critical right…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Cancer mortality rates have been dropping for nearly two decades, aided by “major progress” in the early…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Need to quickly put a name to a face on a company video call? About to play charades online with your new partner’s…

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN When the coronavirus pandemic temporarily closed gyms nationwide in 2020, many people opted to do their workouts at…

The question hung in the air like a bad odor, silencing the small group of fully vaccinated and boosted friends and family at my dinner…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The question hung in the air like a bad odor, silencing the small group of fully vaccinated and boosted friends and family at…

By Travis Caldwell, Jason Hanna, Deidre McPhillips and Christina Maxouris, CNN As the Omicron variant spreads like wildfire across the United States,…

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN A 57-year-old Maryland man is doing well three days after receiving a genetically modified pig heart in a…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Exercise is good for you. Breaking a sweat has been shown to improve nearly every organ in the body, fight nearly every…

By Lisa Drayer, CNN The new year brings with it some old circumstances: working from home, self- isolating again, and having close access to food…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Like many people, historian A. Roger Ekirch thought that sleep was a biological constant — that eight hours of rest a night…

By Dakin Andone and Susannah Cullinane, CNN About 24% of US hospitals are reporting a “critical staffing shortage,” according to data…

By Eryn Mathewson, CNN The last 12 months have been weird for me. I’m a pretty healthy 39-year-old marathon runner. And yet I had a heart…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN As a Covid-19 testing shortage compounds a burgeoning crisis of new hospitalizations, more states are racing to help…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Naomi Thomas and Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration is cautioning against using self-collected throat swabs…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Many people are hearing from their doctors that they have a “mild” Covid-19 infection amid a surge of the highly…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN As a professionally trained dancer for nearly 20 years, I’ve found that a combination of pirouettes and leaps across…

By Travis Caldwell and Mallika Kallingal, CNN Covid-19 hospitalization rates among children are soaring in the United States, with an average of 4.3…

By Naomi Thomas, Virginia Langmaid and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Former health advisers to President Joe Biden say the US strategy for the Covid-19…

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent With more than a half-million Americans being officially diagnosed with Covid-19 every day, the…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Wearing headsets, 18 subjects lay quietly while a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (fMRI) droned on around their…

By Katia Hetter, CNN Schools are shutting down and children’s hospitals are filling up with young patients sick from the latest, most highly…

By Megan Marples, CNN Homes adorned with twinkling holiday lights are a common sight in December, but by January, many lights are gone. Not this…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN While the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues to drive up Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations — and the…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN There are lots of great reasons to decide to go “dry” in January and give up alcohol. Perhaps you imbibed a bit…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN As the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations surpasses those during the Delta variant surge over the summer and fall, more…

By Katia Hetter, CNN The United States is facing an unprecedented surge of Covid-19 infections, driven in large part by the very highly contagious…

By Phyllis L. Fagell, CNN While a seventh grade boy taught an eighth grade boy how to start a knitting row, a seventh grade girl put the finishing…

By Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN More children are getting hospitalized with Covid-19 than ever before as the Omicron variant’s dominance…

By Miguel Marquez and Holly Yan, CNN At Texas Children’s Hospital, 4-month-old Graysen Perry has Covid-19 and is struggling to breathe. His…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authorization for booster doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19…