Health

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN US children under 5 are getting closer to authorized Covid-19 vaccines, but most parents may be reluctant to actually get them when they become available, a new survey found. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Vaccine Monitor survey, published Wednesday, only 18% of parents of children under 5 said they would

By Casey Barber, CNN It has been a long two years in the kitchen. Whether you were an enthusiastic home cook or a reluctant one, the pandemic has made everyone burned out by the act of cooking. It’s also made us realize how much work it is to cook every meal every day. It’s time

By Jen Christensen, CNN Now that the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that established the federal right to an abortion, the next battle may be over access to abortion pills. Some states have restricted the practice, but in December, the US Food and Drug Administration relaxed certain federal regulations on what

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The United States might need to update its Covid-19 vaccines each year, according to a trio of top US Food and Drug Administration officials, and “a new normal” may include an annual Covid-19 vaccine alongside a seasonal flu shot. “Widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity, combined with the availability of effective therapeutics,

By Brenda Goodman, CNN There’s no denying the numbers: Even with spotty reporting, Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising again in the United States. Cases are trending up in most states, and have increased by more than 50% compared with the previous week in Washington, Mississippi, Georgia, Maine, Hawaii, South Dakota, Nevada and Montana. In

By Kristen Rogers, CNN When you think of money, do you feel like living in the moment and being responsible are mutually exclusive? Does guilt eat at you when you go out for lunch or a $7 oat milk latte? You don’t have to think or feel this way, thanks to a flexible personal finance

By Kristen Rogers, CNN When you think of money, do you feel like living in the moment and being responsible are mutually exclusive? Does guilt eat at you when you go out for lunch or a $7 oat milk latte? You don’t have to think or feel this way, thanks to a flexible personal finance

By Kristen Rogers, CNN If you’re wondering how your child might fare on a vegetarian diet, a new study offers some factors to consider. Children eating a vegetarian diet and children who ate meat were similar in terms of growth, height and nutritional measures, but vegetarian children had higher odds of being underweight, according to

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Linda Timmer wanted to practice what she preached. While working at a domestic violence nonprofit in Arizona during the height of the Covid-19 summer wave in 2020, Timmer wrote pandemic policies for her workplace, encouraging her colleagues to wear masks and, if they had been exposed to the coronavirus or had

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN The US should prepare for a possible summer surge of Covid-19 cases across Southern states, former White House Coronavirus Response Task Force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told CBS on Sunday morning. It’s now predictable that the South will see surges in the summer and Northern states will see surges in the

By Megan Marples, CNN Women of all ages and younger men with certain mood disorders are more likely to develop certain chronic illnesses, according to new research. Researchers of a retrospective study published in the journal JAMA Network Open analyzed health data of 40,360 adults from Olmsted County in Minnesota, from the Rochester Epidemiology Project

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Much has been said about the healing power of nature. Now, some medical professionals in Canada are increasingly prescribing it. Doctors are instructing their patients to wander park trails, feel the crunch of leaves beneath their feet and breathe in fresh air. It’s part of BC Parks Foundation’s growing PaRX program,

By John Bonifield, CNN A baby formula maker under investigation by federal agencies for reports of consumer complaints and infant illness will consider distributing some of its products on a case-by-case basis, according to a statement from the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention continues to investigate cases of acute hepatitis with unknown causes among children and released new clinical details about some of the cases on Friday. So far, there have been at least 18 cases reported in at least four states — and dozens more