Health

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 Brenda Goodman, CNN With an early and severe flu season straining resources, the Biden administration says it will release the prescription antiviral Tamiflu from the Strategic National Stockpile to states and territories that request it. The US Department of Health and Human services said Wednesday this should help ease access to the medication —

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN When winter storms force us to brace for freezing rain, wind, sleet and snow, lives can be in danger. A developing “bomb cyclone” prompted alerts for tens of millions of people from Washington state to Maryland, according to the National Weather Service. The storm will affect much of the country, but

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Brook was 34 years old when her use of alcohol escalated, a way of coping with a breast cancer diagnosis. “I just decided I’m not gonna go through this straight,” she told Lisa Lang in an episode of “This Is Life With Lisa Ling,” airing at 9 p.m. ET Sunday on

Opinion by Allison Hope, CNN It started with one person releasing a long, productive unmasked cough into the stale, recycled air on the rush hour train. The bodily fluids hung in the air like a certified holiday wrecking ball. In a matter of days, that single exhalation had transformed into a chorus of viral aerosols

By Faye Chiu, CNN At the end of 2020 and 2021, many people greeted the start of the coming year hunkered down due to the risk of Covid-19. But now, New Year’s Eve events and celebrations are back in a big way. A lot of people have plans to attend social functions, whether they are

By Nadia Kounang, CNN A new study finds that nearly 6% of the estimated 130 million people who go to US emergency rooms every year are misdiagnosed, which translates to about 1 in 18 patients getting the wrong diagnosis. The report, published Thursday by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare

By Martha Shade, CNN Meira Va’a Nelson is a champion surfer who has known more trauma in her life than most people will ever experience. When she was just seven years old her mother died of breast cancer. On the day of her mother’s funeral, her father, unable to deal with his own grief, left

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium — an accumulation of blood in the sac around his heart — his wife, Dr. Céline Gounder announced on Wednesday. The aneurysm was slowly growing and had gone undetected, she wrote in a statement on Substack.

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN An experimental personalized mRNA vaccine in combination with the immunotherapy Keytruda reduced the risk of recurrence or death from melanoma in patients who had already had surgery, Moderna and Merck said Tuesday. The randomized trial included 157 patients with stage 3 or stage 4 melanoma who had already had surgery. Some

By Jen Christensen, CNN The Covid-19 vaccines have kept more than 18.5 million people in the US out of the hospital and saved more than 3.2 million lives, a new study says — and that estimate is most likely a conservative one, the researchers say. The US is nearing the second anniversary of its first

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Ever since they met in the fifth grade, Bob Pettit said his wife has always been the life of the party, a social butterfly and a caring mother. Now, in what doctors say are the final stages of her Alzheimer’s disease, Betty Pettit has found new ways to share the love

By Raenu Charles, CNN Stiff person syndrome is a rare neurological condition that can take years to diagnose and tailor treatment. Singer Celine Dion announced in an Instagram video Thursday that she is canceling some performances because she has been diagnosed with the condition. “While we’re still learning about this rare condition, we now know

By Dana Santas, CNN For many people, back pain can make it difficult to function in everyday life. It affects how you move, feel and think, leaving you with no choice but to take some kind of action to alleviate the pain. But what if, instead of being reactive, you took small daily steps to