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By Kristen Rogers, CNN Young adults who experience discrimination about their bodies, race, age or sex have a greater risk of dealing with mental health problems than those who do not, a new study has found. Encountering discrimination — especially racism — has long been associated with negative effects on overall well-being, such as higher

By Megan Marples, CNN You’ve turned back your clocks for Daylight Saving Time, but what now? Many people look forward to that extra hour of sleep, but it’s not enough to erase chronic sleep debt, said Dr. Kannan Ramar, professor of medicine at the Center for Sleep Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

By Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman, CNN Cheese — what’s not to love? Its popularity is indisputable. Americans consumed over 39 pounds of cheese per capita in 2021 alone, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture. Whether eating cheese is healthy — that’s a little less clear. High in protein, calcium, vitamins and essential amino acids,

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN It was a big day for Sesame Street’s 5-year-old Rosita, who recently got her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. “My mommy and my papi said that it will help keep me, my friends, my neighbors, my abuela all healthy,” Rosita tells CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the

CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN When Perrysburg School Superintendent Thomas Hosler sent a survey to parents in his Toledo-area district to see how many wanted to get their children vaccinated against Covid-19, he got more than 20,000 “no” responses. His district only has 5,700 students in it. “Clearly someone spent a lot of time in

By Megan Marples, CNN Enjoy your extra hour of sleep this weekend, but don’t forget to turn back your clocks when you rise and shine Sunday morning. Daylight Saving Time is ending this Sunday, November 7, at 2 a.m. Most digital clocks and electronics automatically change the time, but some clocks may need to be

By Maggie Fox, CNN A pill to treat Covid — Pfizer and Merck both generated excitement with news they have pills that could help keep people out of the hospital if they catch coronavirus. Pfizer says its pill, which it proposes to sell under the brand name Paxlovid if it gets authorized, reduced the risk

By Claudia Dominguez, CNN Fewer than 100 intensive care unit beds are available across Colorado, the state’s Covid-19 incident commander said during a Friday news conference. “As of today, looking at the data that is reported by the hospitals, we are the lowest number of beds we’ve had available, and we do have less than

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The biotechnology company Novavax plans to submit complete data to the US Food and Drug Administration soon for possible emergency use authorization of its coronavirus vaccine, CEO Stanley Erck told CNN in a phone interview Friday. “We’ll have a file in the US hopefully before the end of the year,” Erck

By Nadia Kounang, CNN Jim Sells is 71, a self-described “strong conservative” who’s on social media all the time. As the pandemic unfolded in the United States, his online social network was the source of a lot of his ideas about Covid-19 and what the risks of the virus could be. It was there where

By Maggie Fox, and Amanda Sealy, CNN Drugmaker Pfizer said Friday its experimental pill designed to fight coronavirus reduced the risk of hospitalization and death for high-risk patients taking part in a trial of the drug. The company hopes it can eventually offer the pill, given in combination with an older antiviral drug called ritonavir,

CNN By Maggie Fox, CNN Even if they get a breakthrough infection, vaccinated people don’t get as sick with Covid-19, two different teams of researchers reported Thursday. Both studies show the vaccines strongly protect against severe disease and death, even months after people were first vaccinated and as the more transmissible Delta variant renewed the

By Maggie Fox, CNN Even if they get a breakthrough infection, vaccinated people don’t get as sick with Covid-19, two different teams of researchers reported Thursday. Both studies show the vaccines strongly protect against severe disease and death, even months after people were first vaccinated and as the more transmissible Delta variant renewed the spread

By Kristen Rogers, CNN As a lawyer whose job involves lots of talking and being the center of attention, Jeena Cho’s fear of socializing was debilitating. “I would constantly mentally critique my own performance,” said Cho, who is also a mindfulness instructor and coauthor of “The Anxious Lawyer: An 8-Week Guide to a Joyful and

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said Thursday it had authorized Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics’ oral antiviral, molnupiravir, to treat mild-to-moderate Covid-19 in adults at risk for severe illness. It is the world’s first oral antiviral to be authorized anywhere for the treatment of Covid-19. The drug comes in