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By Jamie Gumbrecht and Elizabeth Cohen, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers will meet on Thursday to…

By Nadia Kounang NFL players are about four times more likely to die of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Substance use among teens — including alcohol, marijuana, vaping and illicit drugs — dropped significantly in…

By Maggie Fox, CNN Hospitals are struggling to hold on to nurses and other professionals, staff are traumatized and the influx of patients feels like…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN When it comes to praising your child for their actions, parents walk a fine line between being helpful or harmful to their…

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Brain surgeons and rocket scientists are not necessarily smarter than the general public, researchers reported Monday, as they…

By Lauren Kent, CNN All those holiday greetings and happy meetings are part of the fun of December, but it might not be so fun for your dog. The…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN As they swung from the skies, knocked out intergalactic super-villains and strutted away from an explosion with the perfect…

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN It’s midafternoon, and suddenly you can’t stop yawning. Your eyelids may begin to droop — not…

By Casey Barber, CNN Can’t find cream cheese, graham cracker crusts, Cool Whip or peppermint extract? Time to think outside the box — or…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN What do the holidays and football have in common? They both feature good food, sprinkled with a little rivalry and animosity…

By Maggie Fox, CNN Most of the 43 people known to have been infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus in the United STates had mild symptoms,…

By Brianna Keilar, CNN Chili mac is a favorite MRE (ready-to-eat meal) of United States service members — and it’s what CNN anchor…

By Amy Traynor, CNN Created at least 73 years ago to celebrate the Army-Navy football game day, this cocktail “balances the tartness of fresh…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Healthy men between the ages of 20 and 65 who vaped nicotine daily were more than twice as likely to report experiencing…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN At first glance, the image looks like a standard drawing that could easily be found in the pages of a medical textbook or on the…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use as a booster in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An astronaut’s eyes can change during spaceflights that last six months or more. That could be a problem for future…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most parents still have concerns about the safety of Covid-19 vaccines for children, and about three in 10 say that they…

By Ivana Kottasová and Krystina Shveda, CNN When South African scientists announced they had detected a new coronavirus variant with a worryingly…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN When kids and teenagers have easy or unsupervised access to guns, bad, and often irrevocable, things can happen. Such is the…

By Katia Hetter, CNN The new Omicron variant has been spreading rapidly throughout South Africa, and it has now reached numerous locations around the…

By Nadia Kounang, CNN The White House on Wednesday announced a new push to encourage harm reduction measures that make illicit drug use safer. Its…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging doctors to talk to all sexually active people about drugs…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As the world learns more about the Omicron coronavirus variant and Delta continues to cause Covid-19 cases to rise around…

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta shared his mother’s variation on chai, a…

By Megan Marples, CNN The scent of pine and sticky sap waft through the house. A Douglas fir stands tall in the living room, adorned with shiny…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Preliminary lab studies show two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may not provide sufficient protection against the…

By Jen Christensen, CNN As more young children are getting their second doses of Covid-19 vaccine, another question is popping up: When will kids and…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Peter McGinn was starting to feel exhausted. It was his last day in New York. He had an exciting four days meeting in…

By Deidre McPhillips and Jay Croft, CNN Michigan continues to struggle amid the pandemic, setting a record this week for Covid-19 hospitalizations…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN As the pandemic stretches on, our collective ability to weather adversities and bounce back to emotional stability is being…

By Dr. Tom Frieden On Thanksgiving morning, Covid reminded us that neither death nor mutations take a holiday. And while the virus gathers strength,…

By Maggie Fox, CNN Early reports on the quick spread of the Omicron variant in South Africa were at first frightening, but then began to offer some…

By Jessica DuLong, CNN When her teenage son, upset that he’d forgotten to do a homework assignment, ran from their home one morning, Traci…

By Casey Barber, CNN Eating less meat and dairy is one of the ways we can have a positive impact on the future of the planet, as multiple studies on…

By Maggie Fox, CNN Using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as a booster for people initially immunized with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine produces a…

By Rob Picheta, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic will not last forever. It will likely continue to fizzle and fade as it heads towards its third year,…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN For the first time in two months, the US is averaging more than 100,000 new Covid-19 cases each day, shortly after millions of…