CNN – Health

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Two new reports show that women are paying what’s become known as a kind of “pink” tax for their health care. They are spending more out of pocket than men, and when it comes to breast cancer, the extra expenses are causing such a significant burden that it may

Personal essay by Jemal Polson, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Jemal Polson is a social media producer at CNN, based in London. It wasn’t something I originally intended to do long term. Abstaining from alcohol for a couple of weeks or even a month was nothing new to me. However, it would only be a

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — When Alexandra and Shawn Wyman met in December 2017, they said they instantly felt a “soul connection.” Two months later they were engaged, and they married in August 2018. In October, Alexandra learned she was pregnant, giving birth to a baby boy in July 2019. “We were in our

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — When the World Health Organization recommended on Friday which influenza viruses to target in vaccines for next year, it removed a family of viruses that hasn’t been seen since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. As Covid-19 began to spread widely in 2020, people took protective measures such

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing to step up its oversight of a growing category of medical tests called laboratory-developed tests. The FDA approves and clears many types of lab tests for blood, saliva or tissue if they are used by many different hospitals or labs. But

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — As gun suicides climb to record levels in the United States, there’s a stark and growing difference in rates among states with stronger gun safety law and those with weaker policies, a new report shows. States with the weakest gun safety laws saw the rate of gun suicides jump

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — While working in the West Wing under President George W.Bush, then-US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona got a terrible telephone call from his daughter. After he had been missing, she found Carmona’s adult son in a catatonic state. He sat in the corner of his father’s home for two days

CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — While working in the West Wing under President George W.Bush, then-US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona got a terrible telephone call from his daughter. After he had been missing, she found Carmona’s adult son in a catatonic state. He sat in the corner of his father’s home for two

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — If you want to keep your kids from drinking, start by looking at your own consumption. That’s because adolescents whose parents drank regularly or binge drank were four times more likely to drink themselves, according to a study published September 14 in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Binge drinking

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Like many people across the US who’ve gone to a pharmacy in the hopes of getting one of the newly updated Covid-19 vaccines, Cynthia Cox walked away disappointed, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Cox happens to be an insurance expert. At the nonprofit health policy think tank

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Amid an “unprecedented behavioral health crisis” with an “alarming” suicide rate, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that it has awarded $232.2 million in grants toward efforts to prevent suicide and to boost behavioral health care for people who are a part of communities that

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to the updated Covid-19 vaccines, only about 1 in 4 American adults says they definitely plan to get the shot, according to a new survey from the nonprofit health policy group KFF. Roughly another quarter of adults say they will probably get the shot. On the other

By Nick Watt, CNN (CNN) — A 46-year-old Swiss man who was paralyzed after falling on ice has regained some movement after a world-first surgery that installed an implant on his brain that uses artificial intelligence to read his thoughts, his intentions to move, and transfers them to a second implant in his abdomen that stimulates the

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The rush of heat comes out of nowhere, so fierce for some that their faces burn and sweat streams from every pore of their bodies. Welcome to the hot flashes and other symptoms of approaching menopause — an experience experts say about 75% of women will share if they