Health

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — After seven years as a retail associate at a big-box store in Virginia, Alicia Costello still did not have a…

By Sarah Owermohle and Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert…

By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter. Our limited newsletter series guides you on how to minimize your…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Firearms have risen to become the leading cause of death among children and teens in the United States in…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — In October 2020, two months before Covid-19 vaccines would become available in the US, Stanford health policy…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Sleep, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve…

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — More than 70 people across seven states have been sickened due to a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs recalled…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Podcast host Meghan McCain, the former co-host of “The View,” made headlines when she posted to social…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — As measles cases in the United States continue to mount, neighboring countries Canada and Mexico are also…

CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Amid a constantly changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor is warning people who have…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Maybe you have decided that the voice inside your head judging yourself or others for body size can be pretty…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Amid a constantly changing reproductive landscape, one West Virginia prosecutor is warning people who have…

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN (CNN) — The health benefits of a good night’s sleep have long been touted by researchers and medical…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly claimed in public statements that…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The United States is facing an alarming increase in overdose deaths among young people due to synthetic opioids.…

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — More than 1,100 measles cases have been reported in the United States this year, and the highly contagious virus has…

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert for some…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A medical officer at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was working on changes to the…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — As measles cases rise to precipitously high levels in the US this year, there’s a new tool to help track…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Operation Stork Speed is underway. Announced in mid-March by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Move over, MAHA. California has just overtaken President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again”…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the origins, treatments and global response to HIV and AIDS. Facts HIV stands for human…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Tuberculosis (also known as TB), an infection, caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about sarin, a man-made nerve agent developed for chemical warfare. Facts…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the 2001 anthrax attacks, also referred to as Amerithrax. Facts about anthrax There are four…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter…

By Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN (CNN) — As a urologist, I’ve performed countless vasectomies. They are my profession’s bread and butter. When…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States, according to the…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Ultraprocessed foods, seed oils, herbicides and pesticides, and fluoride: They’re all targets of the “Make…

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — A budget proposal for the US Department of Health and Human Services details extensive cuts to funding for…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its immunization schedule for children, days after…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Pharmaceutical rivals don’t often come to each other’s defense. But after the US Department of Health and Human…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Sleep, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The longstanding public health practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water systems in the United…

By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — In a culture that tends to equate fitness with appearance, glutes often get more attention for how they look than…

By Brenda Goodman, Jacqueline Howard, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The first report from the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Eat, But Better: Mediterranean Style. Our eight-part guide shows you a delicious expert-backed…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recently made…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sent a…

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services is terminating a contract with drugmaker Moderna to develop…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter…

By Andrea Kane, CNN Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries…

By Deborah Farmer Kris, CNN (CNN) — My teenage daughter recently convinced me to take her to an art exhibit in Boston. The traffic was a…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Fitness, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide will help you ease into a…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the Covid-19 vaccine will no…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The sperm of a man carrying a rare genetic mutation linked to cancer was used to conceive scores of children across…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Sleep, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve…

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Warmer weather is finally here in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it, many pools and beaches are opening for the…

CNN By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Warmer weather is finally here in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it, many pools and beaches are opening for…

By Dana Santas, CNN With fitness culture too often celebrating extreme training and a “no days off” mentality, rest is routinely misunderstood or…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Sleep, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has helpful…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A group of experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on its vaccine decisions voted unanimously…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — “Back in my day,” some grandparents say to their adult children, “we didn’t let our kids speak…

Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt (CNN) — When I learned that former President Joe Biden had not undergone prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening since…

By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration will now require Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to use expanded…

By Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Don’t like having your period? Hormonal birth control can be used for more than just preventing pregnancy…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The supply of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss and diabetes treatment is expected to tighten this week with a…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the…

By Brenda Goodman, Sarah Owermohle, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is changing the way it approves Covid-19…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The announcement Sunday that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer has some…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Only one fourth of sunscreens on store shelves in the United States deliver safe and effective protection…

By Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer has understandably raised concerns and…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Every night, Lauren Finney Harden and her husband would awaken to the cries of their first-born daughter, and…

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — After a six-week delay, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine,…

By Jen Christensen, Amanda Sealy, Nadia Kounang, CNN There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re…

CNN By Jen Christensen, Amanda Sealy, Nadia Kounang, CNN There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re…

CNN Text by Madeline Holcombe and video by Lacey Russell, Jocelyn Contreras and McKenna Ewen, CNN ATLANTA (CNN) — Electric guitar swells in the…

Text by Madeline Holcombe and video by Lacey Russell, Jocelyn Contreras and McKenna Ewen, CNN ATLANTA (CNN) — Electric guitar swells in the…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has given marketing clearance to a blood test to help diagnose…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — You’ve probably heard the stories: For every man who has cut carbs from his diet and dropped 10 pounds,…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Arguments often feel urgent no matter what’s going on for some of the couples Dr. Samantha Rodman Whiten sees…

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — Florida has become the second state in the nation to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water.…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Los Angeles County is facing a community-wide outbreak of the contagious virus hepatitis A, citing a sustained…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Samples of store-bought rice from more than 100 different brands purchased in the United States contained…

By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Throughout more than two decades of developing new recipes as “Hungry Girl,” Lisa Lillien has amassed quite the…

By Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers repeatedly pressed US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy on canceled medical…

By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — We already know exercise is good for our bodies, but it’s also an essential tool for managing mental health. Yet many…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Drug overdose deaths in the United States made an unprecedented drop to the lowest they’ve been in five…

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment,…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — With the future of her cancer treatment in limbo, Natalie Phelps doesn’t know how much longer she can wait.…

By Connor Greene, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Agriculture has suspended the transport of live cattle, horses and bison through ports of…

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Long working hours might not just be bad for you, they could also be altering the structure of your brain, a new…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration says it is starting the process to remove prescription fluoride tablets and…

By Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — You’ve heard the rule: No TV before bed. But many people find that it helps them fall asleep if they listen…

By Jessica DuLong, CNN (CNN) — Fewer nights out with friends, more take-out meals, less theatergoing. Americans are spending more time alone…

By Sara Sidner, CNN (CNN) — Tina Knowles remembers growing up in a loving and raucous family of nine. She was the youngest of seven children.…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Measles cases continue to accumulate in the United States in what is already the second-worst year since the…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — To get screened for cervical cancer, patients in the United States may no longer need to put their feet in…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has approved three new color additives from natural sources “that will…

By Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN (CNN) — Few things are as impressive to dinner party guests as a perfectly executed à la minute pasta dish.…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Getting the shingles vaccine could do more than just prevent a painful red rash — it may also lower the risk…

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — While cinnamon is a popular spice used added to many foods, it has a long history of uses in traditional medicine…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — A priceless treasure trove of biodata gathered from generations of Americans by Harvard University researchers…