Health

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Using olive oil instead of margarine, butter or other saturated fats may protect you from dying from cancer, cardiovascular…

By Susannah Cullinane, CNN The current Covid-19 surge in the US, fueled by the Omicron variant, could peak later this month — but the next…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Exercise is good for you. Breaking a sweat has been shown to improve nearly every organ in the body, fight nearly every…

By Lisa Drayer, CNN The new year brings with it some old circumstances: working from home, self- isolating again, and having close access to food…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Like many people, historian A. Roger Ekirch thought that sleep was a biological constant — that eight hours of rest a night…

By Dakin Andone and Susannah Cullinane, CNN About 24% of US hospitals are reporting a “critical staffing shortage,” according to data…

By Eryn Mathewson, CNN The last 12 months have been weird for me. I’m a pretty healthy 39-year-old marathon runner. And yet I had a heart…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN As a Covid-19 testing shortage compounds a burgeoning crisis of new hospitalizations, more states are racing to help…

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Naomi Thomas and Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration is cautioning against using self-collected throat swabs…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Many people are hearing from their doctors that they have a “mild” Covid-19 infection amid a surge of the highly…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN As a professionally trained dancer for nearly 20 years, I’ve found that a combination of pirouettes and leaps across…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The Omicron variant has sent cases of Covid-19 surging once again, and many businesses, workplaces and schools have…

By John Bonifield, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance for Covid-19 prevention in K-12 schools on Thursday,…

By Jen Christensen, CNN If you caught Covid-19 over the holidays — and with the highly contagious Omicron variant in circulation, record…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN After getting a dose of Covid-19 vaccine, women had an average menstrual cycle length of about one day longer than usual,…

By Naomi Thomas, Virginia Langmaid and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Former health advisers to President Joe Biden say the US strategy for the Covid-19…

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent With more than a half-million Americans being officially diagnosed with Covid-19 every day, the…

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN Most people know working out is good for your health, both physical and mental. But staying motivated —…