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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Mifepristone can continue to be mailed to patients without an in-person visit with a doctor after the US…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Mifepristone can continue to be mailed to patients without an in-person visit with a doctor after the US…
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Mifepristone, one of two drugs used for medication abortions, can continue to be mailed to patients without an…
Continue ReadingBy Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is again proposing a ban on electrical stimulation devices used to reduce or…
Continue ReadingTrying to imagine fat, fuzzy white lambs, jumping one by one over a fence, is a well-known remedy for sleeplessness. When I used to try this, I would…
Continue ReadingHave your legs ever been so stiff and tired that simply bending down to tie your shoes felt like a Herculean…
Continue ReadingThere was a significant increase in fatal car crashes in the United States around the time of the 2017 total solar eclipse, a new analysis…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An undertaker turned academic, Alexandra Morton-Hayward became interested in brains — specifically how they…
Continue ReadingMedication abortion has become increasingly common since it first became available in the United States two decades ago, and a new study finds that…
Continue ReadingCNN, GETTY IMAGES By Madeline Holcombe and Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — In the time Catherine, Princess of Wales, spent away from the public…
Continue ReadingFake artificial intelligence images are flooding social media used as a new form of…
Continue ReadingHumans have many wonderful qualities, but we lack something that’s a common feature among most animals with backbones: a tail. Exactly why that is…
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe and Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — In the time Catherine, Princess of Wales, spent away from the public before revealing her…
Continue ReadingCharlie Health looks at how social media can cause negative effects on youth mental health and offers tips for how to manage usage.…
Continue ReadingDrugmaker Eli Lilly warned this week that two of its formulations of insulin would be temporarily out of stock through the beginning of April, citing…
Continue ReadingAlmost half of the tap water in the United States is contaminated with chemicals known as “forever chemicals,” according to a study from the US…
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — For 59-year-old Victor Sharrah, the terrifying symptoms began on a winter day in Nashville. “I just woke up…
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — What happens when others assume people with Down Syndrome can’t hit hard, aim high or drink a darn margarita?…
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Continue ReadingWith the arrival of spring, the United States is easing out of respiratory virus season, a familiar pattern that has been challenged by Covid-19 for…
Continue ReadingCharlie Health takes a closer look at the data that separates myth from fact about personality…
Continue Reading“It depends a lot on what your genetic predisposition is, what you’re allergic to, and then what environment you are exposed…
Continue ReadingThe US Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward adopting a rule that would require telecommunications companies to route…
Continue Reading(CNN) — Medicare could start covering Wegovy for certain senior citizens and other beneficiaries with a history of heart disease now that the US…
Continue ReadingMy love affair with small appliances started at an early…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human,…
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Mark another point against smoking: It may cause an increase in a type of body fat linked to serious disease,…
Continue ReadingLife expectancy in the United States started to rebound in 2022 as death rates from Covid-19 and other leading causes of death dropped, but deaths…
Continue ReadingYou’ve started taking an antidepressant, and it’s helping you to finally feel like life is worth living or that you can stop avoiding your…
Continue ReadingAs firearms become the top cause of child deaths in the U.S., Northwell Health examined the impact of gun violence on young…
Continue ReadingA new study projects that global fertility rates, which have been declining in all countries since 1950, will continue to plummet through the end of…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have long known that pulse oximeters are less accurate when used for people with dark skin tones…
Continue ReadingNearly half of American adults have high blood pressure, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and…
Continue ReadingMove over CrossFit, yoga and Peloton. Stretching sessions are the hot revival fitness…
Continue ReadingIntermittent fasting is one of the many trendy ways people try to lose or maintain their…
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Approximately 95% of nonorganic strawberries, leafy greens such as spinach and kale, collard and mustard greens,…
Continue ReadingJust as spring is a time for rebirth, the Persian New Year is a time to celebrate new life. Nowruz is celebrated on the spring equinox, which…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A new gene therapy for the fatal genetic disorder metachromatic leukodystrophy, or MLD, will carry a wholesale…
Continue ReadingMore than two-thirds of children under the age of 6 in Chicago may be exposed to lead-contaminated water, a new study…
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Amy Mazur spends holidays and vacations with her kids and their father, even after a divorce. “It is so…
Continue ReadingFoodReady used data from the CDC to explore the most common settings that facilitated foodborne illnesses in the U.S. from 2009 to…
Continue ReadingOphelia mapped and analyzed the number of patients in substance use facilities per capita across the U.S., using SAMHSA survey…
Continue ReadingAbortions are on the rise in the United States, despite bans that have taken effect in more than a dozen states since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs…
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE, DANCO LABS By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Abortions are on the rise in the United States, despite bans that…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — US health officials are warning doctors about the dramatic rise in measles cases around the world, and advising…
Continue ReadingColon cancer may seem like a distant concern for some, but with the growing trend of younger people being diagnosed, staying informed and proactive…
Continue ReadingThe rollout is underway for Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the United States, and online sales began Monday…
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Continue ReadingFor the last decade in my job as a photographer, I have traveled the country to take pictures of young people and listen to their…
Continue ReadingOver the last few years, couples going through a “sleep divorce” has been all the rage — or just the realization that partnered sleep isn’t…
Continue ReadingGoing to see the doctor soon? Prepare to be hounded with appointment reminders by phone. By text. By robocall. By email. And in your online…
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — After Covid-19 lockdowns, 2022 was a year of marriages, according to new data. The number of marriages took a…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it is taking a “historic” step by banning ongoing…
Continue ReadingTrue beauty starts on the inside; Something one local salon stands…
Continue ReadingCNN By Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and past…
Continue ReadingResearchers with the National Institutes of Health published a pair of studies on Monday that found few clinical differences between patients with a…
Continue ReadingSmartAsset ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities to find the healthiest places based on 10 metrics including obesity, physical activity levels, and…
Continue ReadingThis week marks the four year anniversary of when COVID-19 was officially declared a…
Continue ReadingThe US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medication for a common form of liver inflammation called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis,…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Five years ago, in a wheelchair, Julia Hum was admitted to a state mental hospital in Massachusetts. After…
Continue ReadingWhen the American Medical Association voted to recognize obesity as a disease in 2013, the largest professional group of doctors paved the way for…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — As England’s National Health Service has decided to stop prescribing puberty blockers to minors with gender…
Continue ReadingMany Gen Zers don’t remember life before social media. Sandstone Care used McKinsey data to get a global view of its impact on their mental…
Continue ReadingAlthough morels are generally considered safe, the mushrooms were at the heart of a deadly illness outbreak in Montana last year. An investigation…
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to lowering blood pressure, studies have typically shown that aerobic or cardio exercises are…
Continue Reading“Life in plastic; it’s fantastic,” so the song goes, but in reality, plastics and the chemicals used to create them have been increasingly…
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for…
Continue ReadingBy April Dembosky, KQED and KFF Health News (KQED/KFF Health News) — A much-awaited treatment for postpartum depression, zuranolone, hit the…
Continue ReadingWFAA, CNN By Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations…
Continue ReadingA Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, according to a report published this month in the…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen and Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The Chicago Department of Public Health said Wednesday that everyone who is eligible for…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — A tool that’s available as an online calculator played a key role in actress Olivia Munn’s discovery that…
Continue ReadingBy Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — For decades, a diagnosis of glioblastoma – an aggressive, hard-to-treat cancer in the brain – has been a…
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — A systematic review of scientific studies on the Wim Hof method of cold water therapy found the quality of the…
Continue ReadingCNN By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — If you decompress by playing with dogs or checking their adorable videos on social media, you might be onto…
Continue ReadingHigh school seniors’use of delta-8, a cannabis compound that’s sometimes marketed as “light THC” or a legal alternative to weed, is…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Now wide awake from a once peaceful slumber, you roll over to check the clock and find it’s 3 a.m. That’s…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — If you decompress by playing with dogs or checking their adorable videos on social media, you might be onto…
Continue ReadingSix veggies, five fruits, four proteins, three starches, two sauces and one fun thing — if that’s your grocery shopping list this week, you are…
Continue ReadingHundreds of women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and the time after giving birth each year, and the…
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration launched an initiative Wednesday that it describes as a nationwide call to increase training on and access to life-saving…
Continue ReadingA team of experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrived in Chicago on Tuesday to help local public health officials manage a…
Continue ReadingThe Hechinger Report looks at a recently published data analysis that finds a link between the overscheduling of children and the onset of anxiety…
Continue ReadingMarch 11 marks the infamous anniversary of when the outbreak of COVID-19 became a worldwide pandemic, according to the World Health…
Continue ReadingFor many Americans, a morning routine is not complete without a cup of joe. The National Coffee Association reports the average American drinks just…
Continue ReadingWith an early meeting in the morning, I had done everything I could think to do to get through my latest bout of insomnia and go to…
Continue ReadingEmotions are a large contributor to overall mental health. But dealing with them can be tricky. That’s where a new local program called InUPowers can…
Continue ReadingRamadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, during which observant Muslims observe a strict fast from dawn until…
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrea Kane, CNN Season 9 of the podcast “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta” explores the intersection between body weight and health.…
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Kane, CNN Season 9 of the podcast “Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta” explores the intersection between body weight and health. We…
Continue ReadingWhen government officials lifted an evacuation order for people who lived near the site of a train derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine,…
Continue ReadingCNN By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — When government officials lifted an evacuation order for people who lived near the site of a train…
Continue ReadingCNN By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — I know I’m supposed to gradually go to bed and get up earlier over the course of a week or two before…
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — I know I’m supposed to gradually go to bed and get up earlier over the course of a week or two before Daylight…
Continue ReadingPublic health officials are urging pregnant women and those who come in contact with young children, including their families, to get vaccinated…
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Wegovy’s not just for weight loss anymore. The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved drugmaker Novo…
Continue ReadingCharlie Health examined data that highlights how gender bias affects mental health care, from treatment to…
Continue ReadingVivian Health analyzed its proprietary data to find the 20 cities where travel nurses earn the…
Continue ReadingAmylyx Pharmaceuticals announced Friday that its drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, called Relyvrio, did not show significant benefit in…
Continue ReadingIf you’re feeling as if you’re spinning your wheels at the gym, welcome to the club. At some point in most people’s fitness journeys, they hit…
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