Health

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Remember these words: Rose, Chair, Hand, Blue, Spoon. Draw a clock. Name as many animals as you can in one minute. What’s the date today? List words that start with the letter F. Recall the first five words. Since the 1980s, memory tests like these, often taken with a paper and pencil

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, a semi-independent committee for the World Health Organization said Thursday that it’s determined that aspartame, a popular artificial sweetener found in thousands of products like diet sodas and sugar-free gum, should be categorized as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” But as alarming as the designation might

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The discovery wasn’t intentional — just sloppy safety practices. Chemist James M. Schlatter was hunting for an anti-ulcer drug in his lab in 1965 when he licked his finger to pick up some paper. Astonished by an intense sweetness on his tongue, he soon traced the substance back to a beaker

By Casey Barber, CNN (CNN) — Although the so-called “girl dinner” is being popularized by young women promoting throw-together meals on TikTok, it’s in fact an inclusive meal. If you identify as a human, you have probably already made this type of solo dinner for yourself at some point in your life. I’m a middle-aged

By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — The Earth recently recorded its hottest day ever – a record experts warn will likely be repeatedly broken as the climate crisis drives temperatures higher and higher. And it’s happening fast: a new report found last month was the planet’s hottest June by a “substantial margin,” meaning the nine

By Elizabeth Cohen, Carma Hassan and Amanda Musa, CNN Stanton, Kentucky (CNN) — All Heather and Nick Maberry wanted to do was hold their dead baby, but strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn’t. They were “furious” that the laws meant they never got to kiss or cuddle their daughter, Willow Rose, or tell her

By Meg Tirrell, Nadia Kounang and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted traditional full approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, the first medicine proven to slow the course of the memory-robbing disease. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Thursday that it will now expand coverage of

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — European regulators said Tuesday that they’d broadened an investigation started last week into the risk of suicidal thoughts among patients taking popular drugs for weight loss, like Ozempic, to include more potential cases and other medicines in the class. The European Medicines Agency is now evaluating about 150 reports

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — If TikTok and Reddit influencers are to be believed, the plant-based compound called berberine can be a replacement for such popular diabetes and weight loss drugs as Ozempic and Wegovy. Using berberine as a supplement has become so trendy, in fact, that it has been dubbed “Nature’s Ozempic” by