Health

By Brenda Goodman, CNN No new Ebola infections have been detected in Uganda for 42 days, and so on Wednesday, the World Health Organization and the Ugandan Ministry of Health officially declared that the country’s most recent outbreak of the deadly virus is at an end. The United States will also end screening and monitoring

By Elizabeth Cohen and Naomi Thomas, CNN Some vaccine advisers to the federal government say they’re “disappointed” and “angry” that government scientists and the pharmaceutical company Moderna didn’t present a set of infection data on the company’s new Covid-19 booster during meetings last year when the advisers discussed whether the shot should be authorized and

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN You can reduce your risk of an early death for any reason by nearly 20%, just by eating more foods from your choice of four healthy eating patterns, according to a new study. People who more carefully followed any of the healthy eating patterns — which all share a focus on

By Brenda Goodman and Deidre McPhillips, CNN First, the respiratory virus season brought us RSV to worry about, and then came influenza. Now, Covid-19, which had taken a back seat to those viruses, is once again becoming a menace, and health officials are urging people to stay vigilant. Make no mistake. Cold and flu season

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN While legal battles over access to mifepristone, one of two drugs used for medication abortions, play out in court, the drug continues to be available in states which consider abortion legal. “While many women obtain medication abortion from a clinic or their OB-GYN, others obtain the pills on their own to

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Although still rare, MIS-C after Covid-19 has been more common and more severe than previously reported, and there are significant racial disparities in cases, according to a study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children — which primarily emerges after a Covid-19 infection — causes inflammation in

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The gold medals are piling up. For the sixth year in a row, the Mediterranean style of eating earned the title of best overall diet, according to 2023 ratings announced Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report. Meals from the sunny Mediterranean also ranked first in the categories of diet best

By Brenda Goodman, CNN For weeks, scientists have been watching a slew of Omicron descendants duke it out for dominance of Covid-19 transmission in the United States, with the BQs — BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 — seeming to edge out all the others to claim a slight lead. The result has been a gradual rise in

By Carma Hassan, CNN Tennis superstar Martina Navratilova is starting treatment for stage I throat cancer and breast cancer this month, according to her agent. American Cancer Society CEO Karen Knudsen, a tennis fan, said she was sorry to hear the news but emphasized, “there’s some silver lining here in terms of the stage of

By Kristen Rogers, CNN You may know that being adequately hydrated is important for day-to-day bodily functions such as regulating temperature and maintaining skin health. But drinking enough water is also associated with a significantly lower risk of developing chronic diseases, a lower risk of dying early or lower risk of being biologically older than

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Are you celebrating the first day of 2023 with a hangover? If so, you might be looking for a method to ease your misery. There are certainly a lot of so-called hangover cures, some dating back centuries. “The ancient Greeks believed that eating cabbage could cure a hangover, and the Romans

By Katie Hunt, CNN Parties, weddings, back-on-again concerts and overdue catch-ups: The social calendar is back in full swing after nearly three years of pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions. For some, this renewed activity comes with pressure from friends to knock back alcoholic drinks — a challenge if you’re trying to go sober, stay alcohol-free or

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN You had a little too much to drink last night, and now you’re nursing that dreaded morning aftermath — a hangover. What seemed like great fun at the time is now causing your hands to shake, your head to pound and your heart to race, not to mention other unpleasant symptoms

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As the world enters a new year, many public health and infectious disease experts predict that monitoring for new coronavirus variants will be an increasingly important part of Covid-19 mitigation efforts — and some are turning their attention to a surge in cases in China. Subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus variant

By Jen Christensen, CNN A congressional investigation found that the US Food and Drug Administration’s “atypical collaboration” to approve a high-priced Alzheimer’s drug was “rife with irregularities.” The report, released Thursday, was the result of an 18-month investigation by two House committees. It is sharply critical of Biogen, maker of the medication Aduhelm. The report

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN You can learn a lot from a search history. This month, Google released its annual “Year in Search” list to show which terms saw the highest spikes over the past year. The roundup offers some insight into what internet users around the world cared about, were curious about and concerned about

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The table is set, friends and family draw near, and you already know what comments or questions are going to come your way. Maybe the remarks are about food, your weight, money, relationships, career or kids — whatever the topic may be, the position you’re in isn’t unusual. For many people,

By Sarah Lazarus, CNN One day in July 2021, my then 15-year-old daughter Poppy stumbled and fell while walking down some stairs, grazing her knee. It wasn’t a serious wound, but over the weeks it didn’t heal. Around the same time, her wrists and knees became sore; her ankles started rolling when she walked; her

By Elizabeth Cohen, Naomi Thomas and Nadia Kounang, CNN Jill Hartle might seem an unlikely advocate for abortion rights, but after a devastating pregnancy loss, she’s raising her voice. A conservative Christian and former Ms. South Carolina, Jill was a Republican until last summer, when in the wake of new abortion restrictions in her state,

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Target stores are recalling more than 200,000 weighted blankets for children that have been sold by the retailer from December 2018 through September 2022. The Pillowfort brand blankets can trap children inside if they unzip them and enter the blanket, posing a risk of suffocation. Two girls, ages 4 and 6,

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Influenza is continuing its early and severe rampage through the United States, but there’s some hopeful news for flu seasons of the future. In a significant step, researchers recently said they’ve been able to immunize animals against all 20 known influenza A and B virus strains, marking an important step toward

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling to the lowest it has been since 1996, according to final mortality data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. Covid-19 was a major contributor to the