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By Maggie Fox, Jamie Gumbrecht and Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend emergency…

By Maggie Fox and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted unanimously to recommend emergency use…

By Maggie Fox, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration start meeting early Friday to discuss whether Americans need booster shots…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN As we head back to work, we again come face to face with delicious diet-breaking temptations we were able to avoid at home.…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Weeks of deliberation are coming to a head Friday when the US Food and Drug Administration meets to discuss Covid-19…

By Maggie Fox, CNN Clinical trials for coronavirus vaccines should include examination of any possible effects on women’s menstrual cycles…

By Maggie Fox, Jacqueline Howard and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Three reports published Wednesday support the argument that people may need a booster dose…

By Maggie Fox, CNN The US National Institutes of Health said Wednesday it’s starting a $470 million study to try to understand what’s…

By Arlette Saenz, CNN The US government is buying more doses of monoclonal antibody treatments for Covid-19, and the Biden administration is taking…

By Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Most Americans believe that the public health benefits of restrictions due to Covid-19 are worth the economic and…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The United States has reached another grim milestone in its fight against the devastating Covid-19 pandemic: 1 in 500…

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Last December, when advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration met to consider whether the…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Black and Hispanic people in the United States are more likely to catch Covid-19, and they’re more likely to be…

By Madeline Holcombe, Holly Yan and Christina Maxouris, CNN Covid-19 vaccines for children between the ages of 5 and 11 could get the green light…

By Jen Christensen and Amir Vera, CNN Covid-19 infections have risen “exponentially” among children in the US since July, according to…

By Elissa Strauss, CNN Some of Ellie Zerr’s go-to spots for a confidence boost are Instagram and TikTok. Yes, there is plenty of content on…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Hospitals across the United States have been facing a crisis. As of Monday morning, more than 96,000 hospital beds are…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Millions of Americans still need to get vaccinated to slow or stop the spread of Covid-19 and getting the pandemic under…

By Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A hospital in upstate New York is “pausing” deliveries of babies because of the number of maternity unit…

By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN New data shows 26 states have fully vaccinated more than half their residents, and those with the highest…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN As the US averages more than 1,000 Covid-19 deaths daily, not getting vaccinated is akin to driving while intoxicated, one…

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Ahead of a key meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration, the New…

By Casey Barber, CNN You can’t beat the convenience of tomato sauce from a jar, but what about when you’re craving something a little…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN More than 700,000 people die by suicide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Translated: Every 40 seconds,…

By Allie Torgan, CNN On a medical trip to West Africa nine years ago, Dr. Patricia Gordon had a wake-up call. She had traveled with a group of…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Yawning and exhausted from another night of little sleep? Congratulations, you have joined the multitude of people around the…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN For fully vaccinated Americans, the risk of being hospitalized or dying from Covid-19 is low — much lower than the…

By Dana Santas, CNN Some forgetfulness — like occasionally forgetting to pay a bill or recall a word — can be expected at any age. But…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Surging Covid-19 cases — and the increasing proportion reported in children — are causing many health experts…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN As more people get vaccinated against Covid-19 and the National Football League season starts September 9, you may be…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Back-to-school after the Labor Day weekend could mean fresh spread of coronavirus unless schools take strong action to keep…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Like many new parents, René Marsh felt her life was “transformed” in March of 2019 when her newborn son Blake was…

By John Duffy, CNN Within the first several weeks of any school year, I receive dozens of calls from parents concerned about their increasingly…

By Ryan Prior and Kristen Rogers, CNN Can this year just stop already? It’s a thought ricocheting around the world as we cope with Covid-19,…

By Rob Picheta and Amir Tal, CNN One-year-old Israeli twin girls, who were born joined back-to-back at the head, have been separated after a rare and…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As she held up her cell phone to take back-to-school selfies with the new school resource officers last week, the…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci says there’s an important step adults can take to protect children who are too young to be…

By Angela Dewan, CNN Human health is already being harmed by the climate crisis, and the impacts could become catastrophic and irreversible unless…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country this summer, health care workers and officials…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Ping! It’s the email you’ve been dreading — your child may have been exposed to Covid-19 at school. How are…

By Randi Kaye, CNN A Florida teen who spent 11 days on a ventilator after she contracted Covid-19 has a message for her peers and others. “My…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Health experts are reinforcing the point that full vaccination remains highly effective against severe illness and death…

By Luke McGee, CNN One of the greatest success stories of the Covid-19 crisis has hit an alarming bump in the road. The initial stages of the vaccine…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the latest Covid-19 surge upending American life yet again, an official rollout of booster doses could begin within…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the opioid crisis. Experts say the United States is in the throes of an opioid epidemic. An estimated…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN A new study of breakthrough Covid-19 infections finds that vaccines not only reduce the risk of severe disease and…

By Holly Yan and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Those hit hardest by Hurricane Ida now face an even longer test of survival. Catastrophic damage means some…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN More than a million people have lost power during Hurricane Ida and its aftermath, and some are using backup generators to…