Health

By Jessica DuLong, CNN The last thing I need as a parent is another expert making me feel bad. Thankfully, clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Seventeen states, Washington, DC, and New York City, are reporting high or very high respiratory illness activity amid a…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech said Friday that the immune responses against Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants were “substantially…

Opinion by Dr. Tom Frieden and Precious Matsoso In late June of this year, Ghana’s health authorities received some disturbing news: Two cases…

By Jen Christensen, CNN A preventive treatment for lower respiratory tract infections caused by RSV got the go ahead from the European Commission on…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Deaths caused by alcohol use in the United States spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic, killing more than 49,000 people in…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The first new type of antibiotic developed in more than 20 years to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) appears to be so…

By Raenu Charles, CNN Parents and caregivers should not use infant head-shaping pillows meant to change an infant’s head shape or that claim to…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN RSV hospitalizations were significantly higher than normal again last week amid a respiratory virus season that’s…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN For the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for clinicians…

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN High levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, have been detected in more brands and batches of dry shampoo products,…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN More than half of monkeypox cases in the current outbreak may have been passed to others before symptoms appeared, according…

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in…

By Elizabeth Cohen and Justin Lape, CNN This summer, when the shocking news emerged that there was a case of polio in New York, the US Centers for…

By Jen Christensen, CNN Although health-care providers are not authorized to offer a medication abortion before a patient gets pregnant, some are…

By Jen Christensen, CNN People in the US with high blood pressure saw their levels rise during the first eight months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new…

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The average travel time to an abortion facility increased significantly for women in the United States after the Supreme…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Pfizer says it has enough promising data on its respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine designed to protect newborns that…

By Brenda Goodman, CNN It’s shaping up to be a severe season for respiratory syncytial virus infections — one of the worst some doctors…