Health

By Carma Hassan and Carolyn Sung, CNN The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of…

By Elissa Strauss, CNN I used to be a bit cynical about social and emotional learning programs, or SEL as they are known in educational circles. My…

By Brenda Goodman and Deidre McPhillips, CNN Two cases of monkeypox have been identified in children in the United States, the US Centers for Disease…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN An ancient virus, polio has crippled and killed humans for centuries. Etchings on Egyptian vessels show people with withered…

By Katy Milkman, CNN Most of us make to-do lists to keep track of all the things we need to tackle around the house, to keep our families running and…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Not 24 hours after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, ending the right to an abortion in the United…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The nationwide baby formula shortage that federal leaders once said would be fixed within weeks has dragged on for months,…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN It’s not your imagination: As the rapidly spreading BA.5 coronavirus subvariant causes a surge in infections across the…

By Deblina Chakraborty, CNN Covid-19 cases are increasing across the United States once again, driven by the most contagious strain of the…

By Elizabeth Cohen, Danielle Herman and John Bonifield, CNN When Marlena Stell had a miscarriage, she says she begged her doctor for help but instead…

By Jacqueline Howard and Katherine Dillinger, CNN Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN In light of last month’s Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and revoked the constitutional right to…

By Naomi Thomas, CNN New York City’s monkeypox case numbers don’t show the full picture of how bad the outbreak is, and demand for…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Heat-related sickness is top of mind today for many people around the world not used to coping with extreme heat. When the…

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN Former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb’s interview in which he criticized the…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Injected vaccines against the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have been hugely successful, saving nearly 20 million lives…

By Carma Hassan, Aya Elamroussi and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN As cases of monkeypox continue to rise in the US, a top health official is stressing that…

By Jacqueline Howard and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN To reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for mental health crises, it now takes only…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Saquaya Ruffin didn’t know what an abortion doula was until the clinic staff asked if she wanted one. Her mother came with…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Wednesday was the deadline for the US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products to take action on…

By Katia Hetter, CNN The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.5 represents at least 65% of new Covid-19 infections in the United States,…

By Jen Christensen, CNN In clarifying guidance announced Wednesday, the Biden administration says federal law does not allow pharmacies to turn away…

By Naomi Thomas, CNN After a US Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade was leaked in May, Dr. Joshua Trebach noticed a disturbing turn in the…

By Neeraj G. Patel and Virginia Langmaid, CNN A surgical team transplanted a heart from a genetically modified pig into a deceased human as part of a…

By Jelena Kecmanovic, CNN Even as we look forward to enjoying this summer, the youth mental health crisis, mass shootings and political polarization…