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By Chloe Melas, CNN “Bobby and Sara are having twins!” I remember my husband coming into the bathroom where I was taking a bath to tell me about his childhood best friend’s happy news. We had been trying to get pregnant for several months at that point, and we were going through rounds of intrauterine
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN Select bags of Gold Medal flour are being voluntarily recalled by manufacturer General Mills for the possible presence of salmonella, according to a company announcement posted on the US Food and Drug Administration’s website. Salmonella was detected during a sampling of the 5-pound bag of the product, the company said. The
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that Black and Latina mothers in the US may have been induced into labor based on the needs of White pregnant women and not their own. The study, published Wednesday in the American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and
Continue ReadingCNN By Brenda Goodman, CNN Disease detectives with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a cluster of rare and serious brain abscesses in kids in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, and doctors from other parts of the country say they may be seeing a rise in cases, too. In 2022, the
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still requiring international visitors boarding flights to the United States to be vaccinated against Covid-19, but it’s easing vaccine requirements for those travelers. International travelers boarding flights to the United States will now be considered fully vaccinated two weeks after getting a
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN As the nation’s public health emergency expires on May 11, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop reporting its color-coded Covid-19 Community Levels as a way to track the spread of the infection. Instead, the CDC will keep tabs on Covid-19 largely by tracking hospitalizations in some
Continue ReadingBy Dana Santas, CNN With the weather warming up, you might feel inspired to clean out your closets, wash your windows and give your house a deep scrub and reorganization. Not only is a clean environment good for your physical health, but research has shown that the good feelings you get from having a clean,
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN ChatGPT can be a useful tool for patients who are seeking medical information and guidance, but the artificial intelligence tool can’t fully replace the value of a human physician — it says so itself. “While I am a language model that has been trained on a vast amount of information, I
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN In his offline life, Bo Petterson is a dad to his six adult children. But online, he is a father figure to millions. With the TikTok account @DadAdviceFromBo, one man from Leavenworth, Washington, has shared tips and tricks on navigating adulthood with 2.6 million followers around the world. Petterson has advice
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN Disease detectives with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a cluster of rare and serious brain abscesses in kids in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, and doctors from other parts of the country say they may be seeing a rise in cases, too. In 2022, the number
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN A Seattle medical center is reporting 31 confirmed cases of a bacterial infection since October, according a news release from the Virginia Mason Medical Center. The most recent confirmed case was identified on April 3. “Beginning in October 2022, Virginia Mason Medical Center detected an increase in cases of Klebsiella pneumoniae
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN The percentage of adults who smoked cigarettes in the United States fell to a historic low last year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. However, e-cigarettes are becoming even more popular. About 11% of adults told the CDC last year that they were current cigarette smokers, according to
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN About 1 in 5 high school students in the United States has seen violence first-hand among people who are not related, including homicides involving guns. That’s according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which calls community violence “a significant public health concern.” In 2021,
Continue ReadingCNN By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Pollen has exploded to eye-watering levels this spring in some parts of the country after warm weather pushed plants out of their winter slumber much earlier than normal. In Atlanta, the pollen count sky rocketed to “extremely high” in early March and stayed high through much of April, according to
Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Cohen and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Later this spring, a little girl in California who essentially has no immune system will receive a lifesaving treatment for “bubble boy disease” thanks to the persistence of a dogged group of parents, a pediatrician, a veteran newsman and a few episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Five-year-old Seersha
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Later this spring, a little girl in California who essentially has no immune system will receive a lifesaving treatment for “bubble boy disease” thanks to the persistence of a dogged group of parents, a pediatrician, a veteran newsman and a few episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Five-year-old Seersha Sulack
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN There’s more evidence that the injectable drug tirzepatide helps people with diabetes lose weight as well as control their blood sugar, according to the drug’s manufacturer, Eli Lilly and Company. In a new study, more than 900 adults with obesity and diabetes took the drug for a year and five months,
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Heart disease is the leading killer of men and women worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, but there are ways to significantly reduce your risk. Along with regular exercise and not smoking, a healthy diet is a key way to keep heart disease at bay. But which diet best meets
Continue ReadingCNN By Jacqueline Howard and Tierney Sneed, CNN A woman who is suing the state of Texas after being denied an abortion told lawmakers Wednesday that not receiving abortion care harmed her mental health and might prevent her from having children in the future. Addressing her senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, Amanda Zurawski said
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard and Tierney Sneed, CNN A woman who is suing the state of Texas after being denied an abortion told lawmakers Wednesday that not receiving abortion care harmed her mental health and might prevent her from having children in the future. Addressing her senators, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, Amanda Zurawski said her
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