Health

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The Covid-19 crisis is nearing the second anniversary of the pandemic declaration by the World Health Organization, on March 11 — and many people are now ready to know both when and how society can return to what we used to think of as normal. In the United States, the White

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Like many girls in high school, Ella (not her real name) had days where she struggled with self-esteem. “I was able to cope with it because I had sports, I had friends, and I had school. Then the pandemic hit in March (2020) and I lost all of that,” said Ella,

By Jamie Gumbrecht and Carma Hassan, CNN US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed a recommendation from the CDC’s vaccine advisers Friday for use of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for adults. “We now have another fully approved COVID-19 vaccine,” Walensky said in a statement. “If you have been waiting for

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Three days before Thanksgiving, a planeload of passengers from South Africa touched down in San Francisco. One of them was a woman who was in the early stages of a Covid-19 infection, though she wouldn’t know it for almost another week. It happened to be the same day that scientists 10,000

By Jen Christensen and Brenda Goodman, CNN About 18 million children under the age of 5 in the United States could soon be eligible to get a Covid-19 vaccine — but first, the child-sized shot must go through a rigorous authorization process that’s taking a different path than the Covid-19 vaccines that came before. On

By Katia Hetter, CNN A new subvariant of Omicron is spreading rapidly in some parts of the world. This spinoff from the original Omicron variant, called BA.2, has been found in at least 49 countries, including the United States. In some countries, like Denmark, BA.2 has already surpassed the original Omicron (BA.1) as the dominant

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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A receding hairline. A bald spot spreading on the top of head. Painfully thin hair that is especially noticeable where the hair parts. Some 90% of men will suffer some form of hair loss during their lifetime, often leading to symptoms of low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. Studies on which nonsurgical

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Children younger than 5 in the United States could begin receiving Covid-19 vaccinations this month or next if the US Food and Drug Administration moves quickly to authorize the shot for this age group. Earlier this month, vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech initiated a request for the FDA to authorize their

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN More and more adults are taking over-the-counter melatonin to get to sleep, and some of them may be using it at dangerously high levels, a new study has found. While overall use among the United States adult population is still “relatively low,” the study does “document a significant many-fold increase in

By Jen Christensen, CNN In one five-year period, teens and preteens in the US may have lost about 200,000 years of life to unintentional drug overdoses, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, may be one of the first to calculate lives lost to unintentional drug overdoses among young people.

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Novavax announced Monday that it has formally submitted a request for the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize its coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in the United States. The request is based on data that includes the results of two large clinical trials that demonstrated an overall efficacy of about

By Naomi Thomas and Ben Tinker, CNN Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine has received full approval from the US Food and Drug Administration, according to news releases from the FDA and Moderna. The vaccine, named Spikevax, is now approved for use in people ages 18 and older. It is not approved or authorized for use in younger

By Anokhi Saklecha, CNN The first participants have been vaccinated in a Phase 1 clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine that utilizes Moderna’s mRNA technology, the company announced last week. The trial, titled IAVI G002, is being conducted in partnership with IAVI, a nonprofit scientific research organization. It is testing a vaccine that delivers

By Jacqueline Howard and Carma Hassan, CNN There is now more optimism that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic may be ending — and as other nations lift certain Covid-19 restrictions, some public health experts question whether US counties and cities should consider easing their guidance on mask-wearing or social distancing, as well. But others

By Brenda Goodman, CNN A new spinoff of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is getting attention from scientists as it becomes the dominant cause of Covid-19 infections in some parts of the world. Experts say there’s no reason to panic over the lineage, called BA.2, which was first identified in early December and has