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By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Editor’s note: Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. For as long as there have been humans, there have been mosquitoes buzzing around in hopes of a bite to
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Eli Lilly’s experimental pill for weight loss helped people lose an average of 15% of their body weight after 36 weeks on the highest dose in a midstage trial, rivaling what’s seen with currently approved injectable therapies like Wegovy over longer durations. The drug, orforglipron, had similar side effects
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Experts called by the US National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, to testify about the February train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, said at a hearing Thursday that tank cars containing vinyl chloride were not undergoing a chemical reaction that would have caused them to explode – calling into
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — You might believe cortisol is the culprit sabotaging your fitness and weight loss efforts if you’re getting your guidance from social media. And if you could just get your cortisol levels to where they need to be, everything else will fall into place — right? Like most things that
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Abortion today, at least in the United States, is a political, legal and moral powder keg. But for long stretches of history, terminating an unwanted pregnancy, especially in the early stages, was a relatively uncontroversial fact of life, historians say. Egyptian papyrus, Greek plays, Roman coins, the medieval biographies
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — Sunrise Growers has recalled frozen fruit products sold at chain stores nationwide over possible listeria contamination, the US Food and Drug Administration says. The products were distributed to Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Target, Aldi and AWG across the country between fall 2022 and this week. The full list
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first gene therapy to treat a rare and devastating muscle disease but limited the approval to kids ages 4 and 5 based on available evidence. The drug, from biotech company Sarepta Therapeutics, will need to prove in an ongoing clinical
Continue ReadingBy Giri Viswanathan, CNN (CNN) — E-cigarette use is flaring up across the United States, according to a new study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monthly e-cigarette unit sales surged by 46.6% from January 2020 to December 2022—from 15.5 million to 22.7 million units, according to report published Thursday in the
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The United States population has been aging for decades and is now older than it has ever been. The median age of the US population reached a record high of 38.9 years in 2022, according to new estimates from the US Census Bureau. That’s an increase of about 3.5
Continue ReadingBy Christine Koh, CNN (CNN) — When a friendship hits a stumbling block, how do you know whether to work on the relationship or let it go? It can be tempting to let a friendship fade instead of facing conflict — especially when life feels overwhelming in other ways — because conflict is hard. But
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The rate of pregnant women dying of delivery-related causes in the hospital appears to have declined significantly – by more than 50% – across the United States in recent years, a new study suggests. That decline, seen among more than 11 million hospital patients, came over a 14-year period
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent (CNN) — As Amanda Zurawski walked into a Capitol Hill hearing room in April, she was awestruck at what she was about to do: testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Presidents had testified in this room. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of her heroes, had testified
Continue ReadingBy Giri Viswanathan, CNN (CNN) — A new report puts US states’ health care systems on a scorecard, with Massachusetts coming out on top. But it also highlights alarming trends across the country, especially in areas like premature deaths and women’s health care. Released Thursday, the Commonwealth Fund’s 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Adults 60 and older will be eligible to get a shot that could protect them from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, this fall if the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention follows the advice of its independent vaccine advisory committee. The US Food and Drug Administration approved GlaxoSmithKline’s
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will test a sample from a 42-year-old woman who is believed to have died of a swine flu infection in Brazil in May. When it receives the sample, the agency says, it plans to look for possible mutations that
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — The United States Food and Drug Administration will test out labels on the front of food packages in the hope of giving shoppers better access to nutrition information, the agency said. The goal is to address diet-related chronic disease by “empowering consumers with nutrition information to help them more
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN (CNN) — When you hear the term “muscle memory,” it conjures up images of your muscles being able to memorize certain movements, such as dribbling a soccer ball or playing “Happy Birthday” on the piano. But while muscle memory is real, that’s not what is actually going on in your
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Most US obstetrician/gynecologists worry that the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision has had significant negative effects on reproductive and maternity health in the United States, and many say they have experienced direct constraints on their ability to provide care, according to a new survey from KFF. Between March and May,
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — Pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk says it has begun legal proceedings against some US medical spas, weight loss or wellness clinics and compounding pharmacies “to cease and desist from false advertising, trademark infringement and/or unlawful sales of non-FDA approved compounded products claiming to contain semaglutide,” the active ingredient in its
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Taking daytime naps may help maintain brain health as we age, according to a new study. However, prior research has shown that excess napping can also be harmful. Habitual napping was linked with larger total brain volume, which is associated with a lower risk of dementia and other diseases,
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