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Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN Another woman has come forward with the harrowing details of how the Supreme Court’s decision four…
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN Another woman has come forward with the harrowing details of how the Supreme Court’s decision four…
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Continue ReadingModerna said on Monday its updated COVID-19 booster generated “significantly higher” neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron BA.4/BA.5…
Continue ReadingBy Casey Barber, CNN As iconic Thanksgiving dishes go, stuffing is likely runner-up only to turkey as the dish most often on the dining table.…
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Continue ReadingBy Nadia Kounang, CNN Moderna said on Monday its updated Covid-19 booster generated “significantly higher” neutralizing antibodies…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN There has been a steady increase in the number of children who are seen in emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts, according…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN There has been a steady increase in the number of children who are seen in emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts, according…
Continue ReadingBy Heather Law, Aliza Kassim Khalidi and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN A cruise ship with hundreds of Covid-positive passengers docked in Sydney, Australia,…
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN In many countries, cursing online about the government is so commonplace nobody bats an eye. But it’s not such an easy…
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Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN About half of the US — 22 states, along with Washington, DC, New York City and Puerto Rico — is reporting high…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman and Raenu Charles, CNN Shortages of key medications used to treat common childhood illnesses like flu, ear infections and sore…
Continue ReadingBy Ben Tinker, CNN Respiratory viruses including flu and RSV are circulating across the United States at high levels, overwhelming children’s…
Continue ReadingA Nez Perce County man older than 65 years of age is Idaho’s first reported influenza-related death of the 2022-2023…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN A new study estimates that 1 in 50 deaths of otherwise healthy children under age 5 around the world is due to a common virus…
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN Health care professionals may now have a way to identify possible eating disorder cases a year before they would have been…
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Continue ReadingEIRMC recently established a Psychiatry Residency program to address a shortage of mental health professionals throughout the…
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN A deadly outbreak of listeria in six states has been linked to contaminated deli meat and cheese, the US Centers for Disease…
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Continue ReadingIdaho officials reported 1,221 new COVID-19 cases and 12 new deaths in the last…
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Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Scientists have transfused lab-made red blood cells into a human volunteer in a world-first trial that experts say has major…
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Continue ReadingBy Raenu Charles, CNN Parents and caregivers should not use infant head-shaping pillows meant to change an infant’s head shape or that claim to…
Continue ReadingGovernment health officials on Friday warned of an early and severe start to cold and flu season in the United States, saying they were closely…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Although the prevalence of e-cigarette use among teens has declined in recent years, those who do vape are starting younger…
Continue ReadingPaxlovid, the antiviral pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, also reduces the risk of long COVID-19, according to a…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Six supplements that people commonly take for heart health don’t help lower “bad” cholesterol or improve…
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Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN Average daily screen use by children during the Covid-19 pandemic increased by more than an hour and twenty minutes, according…
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Paxlovid, the antiviral pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid-19, also reduces the risk of long…
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Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN It’s almost time for clocks to “fall back” one hour. On the first Sunday of November, at 2 a.m., clocks in…
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Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech said Friday that the immune responses against Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants were “substantially…
Continue ReadingOpinion by Dr. Tom Frieden and Precious Matsoso In late June of this year, Ghana’s health authorities received some disturbing news: Two cases…
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN A preventive treatment for lower respiratory tract infections caused by RSV got the go ahead from the European Commission on…
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Deaths caused by alcohol use in the United States spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic, killing more than 49,000 people in…
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN Alongside the many impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on pediatric care, researchers have seen a stark increase in young…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The first new type of antibiotic developed in more than 20 years to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) appears to be so…
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN Welcome to this year’s flu season. This year’s flu strain has already begun spreading across the United States,…
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN RSV hospitalizations were significantly higher than normal again last week amid a respiratory virus season that’s…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN For the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for clinicians…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN High levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, have been detected in more brands and batches of dry shampoo products,…
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN More than half of monkeypox cases in the current outbreak may have been passed to others before symptoms appeared, according…
Continue ReadingBy Angela Duckworth, CNN Decades before George Takei became Mr. Sulu on the original “Star Trek” series, he was imprisoned for a crime he…
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in…
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Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in…
Continue ReadingIdaho officials reported 1,035 new COVID-19 cases and 9 new deaths in the last…
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