Health

Puerto Rico has declared a public health emergency due to a surging number of…

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN (CNN) — Planks are one of the most effective exercises for strengthening your midsection, as they target all…

Mpox cases in the United States are twice as high as they were at this time last year, and experts are stressing the importance of improving…

The US Food and Drug Administration has settled a lawsuit over some of its posts about ivermectin, including what may have been one of its more…

Sniffling a bit more than usual? Welcome to spring allergy season in the Northern Hemisphere. Even if you don’t think you have allergies, it’s…

Not getting enough sleep may cause you to feel five to 10 years older than you really are, according to two new…

Tired from a restless night spent awake? One of the most helpful things to do might be to get some exercise, according to a new…

Medicare shelled out $5.7 billion on Ozempic and other similar diabetes drugs in 2022, up from $57 million in 2018, according to a new KFF…

When doctors told Katrina Barry that she had a rare and serious condition called pulmonary arterial hypertension or PAH, they warned her not to…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Mifepristone can continue to be mailed to patients without an in-person visit with a doctor after the US…

By Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is again proposing a ban on electrical stimulation devices used to reduce or…

Trying 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…

Have your legs ever been so stiff and tired that simply bending down to tie your shoes felt like a Herculean…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An undertaker turned academic, Alexandra Morton-Hayward became interested in brains — specifically how they…

Medication abortion has become increasingly common since it first became available in the United States two decades ago, and a new study finds that…

By Madeline Holcombe and Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — In the time Catherine, Princess of Wales, spent away from the public before revealing her…

Drugmaker Eli Lilly warned this week that two of its formulations of insulin would be temporarily out of stock through the beginning of April, citing…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — For 59-year-old Victor Sharrah, the terrifying symptoms began on a winter day in Nashville. “I just woke up…

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The US Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward adopting a rule that would require telecommunications companies to route…

(CNN) — Medicare could start covering Wegovy for certain senior citizens and other beneficiaries with a history of heart disease now that the US…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Doctors have performed the first transplant of a genetically modified kidney from a pig into a living human,…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Mark another point against smoking: It may cause an increase in a type of body fat linked to serious disease,…

Life 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…

You’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…

Nearly half of American adults have high blood pressure, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and…

Intermittent fasting is one of the many trendy ways people try to lose or maintain their…

More than two-thirds of children under the age of 6 in Chicago may be exposed to lead-contaminated water, a new study…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Amy Mazur spends holidays and vacations with her kids and their father, even after a divorce. “It is so…

Abortions 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…

Colon cancer may seem like a distant concern for some, but with the growing trend of younger people being diagnosed, staying informed and proactive…

The rollout is underway for Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the United States, and online sales began Monday…

Over the last few years, couples going through a “sleep divorce” has been all the rage — or just the realization that partnered sleep isn’t…

Researchers with the National Institutes of Health published a pair of studies on Monday that found few clinical differences between patients with a…

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medication for a common form of liver inflammation called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis,…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Five years ago, in a wheelchair, Julia Hum was admitted to a state mental hospital in Massachusetts. After…

When the American Medical Association voted to recognize obesity as a disease in 2013, the largest professional group of doctors paved the way for…

Although morels are generally considered safe, the mushrooms were at the heart of a deadly illness outbreak in Montana last year. An investigation…

When it comes to lowering blood pressure, studies have typically shown that aerobic or cardio exercises are…

“Life in plastic; it’s fantastic,” so the song goes, but in reality, plastics and the chemicals used to create them have been increasingly…

By 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…

WFAA, 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…

A Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, according to a report published this month in the…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — For decades, a diagnosis of glioblastoma – an aggressive, hard-to-treat cancer in the brain – has been a…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — A systematic review of scientific studies on the Wim Hof method of cold water therapy found the quality of the…

High school seniors’use of delta-8, a cannabis compound that’s sometimes marketed as “light THC” or a legal alternative to weed, is…

By 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…

Hundreds of women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and the time after giving birth each year, and the…

The Biden administration launched an initiative Wednesday that it describes as a nationwide call to increase training on and access to life-saving…

A 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…