Health

By Zoe Sottile, Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — Workers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to return to the office September 15 – a little over a month after a gunman attacked the agency’s Atlanta campus, firing almost 500 shots and killing a police officer before dying of a

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Doctors may soon have a new way to treat high blood pressure, even among people for whom medicines haven’t worked well in the past. Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made by AstraZeneca, showed promise in treating people with uncontrolled or resistant high blood pressure in a recent trial. If the

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — This year’s updated Covid-19 vaccines have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for adults 65 and older and younger people with certain medical conditions that put them at a higher risk of a severe Covid-19 infection. Although federal officials have emphasized that people who want a

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Offering “thoughts and prayers” after a tragedy may sound insufficient, said Father Chris Collins, a Jesuit priest and vice president for mission at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey expressed a similar point of view on Wednesday after two children were killed

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Federal officials in the US say that Covid-19 vaccines remain available to everyone, despite new restrictions on the groups that they’re approved for. But experts suggest that claim is misleading, as the more narrow approval may raise significant barriers to access for many Americans. On Wednesday, the US Food

By Sarah Owermohle, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill will serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said in a letter to CDC staff. O’Neill joined HHS in June after years as a

By Brenda Goodman, Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — Top officials who resigned their positions at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the ouster of the agency’s director were escorted out of the building Thursday morning, then celebrated and saluted by CDC staffers in the afternoon. Before the crowds gathered outside the Atlanta

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for 3.5 million deaths in 2021, according to the World Health Organization. It’s a common disease in the United States, affecting about 6% of US adults and ranking among the country’s top 10 causes

By Sarah Owermohle, Adam Cancryn, Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 31, has been removed from the position, the White House said Wednesday. Several high-level veteran agency officials resigned after word spread about her

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Deidre McPhillips, Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration approved updated Covid-19 vaccines Wednesday, but for a limited group: adults 65 and older, and younger people who are at higher risk from Covid-19. “FDA has now issued marketing authorization for those at higher risk: Moderna (6+ months), Pfizer

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — As AI chatbots become a popular way to access cost-free counseling and companionship, a patchwork of state regulation is emerging, restricting how the technology can be used in therapy practices — and determining whether it can replace human therapists. The string of new regulations follows reports of AI chatbots

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — If you told me four years ago that I’d be living a sustainable life, I wouldn’t have known what that meant. With the planet getting warmer and more people viewing global warming as a serious threat, there is no better time to act than now. At least, that’s the

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A division of the US Department of Health and Human Services told 40 states, five territories and the District of Columbia on Tuesday that they “are now on notice”: Some federally funded sex ed programs need to remove any mention of gender identity or transgender people, even in passing,

CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75 from progressing to type 2 diabetes, a new study found. “Our study shows that modest, sustained changes in diet and lifestyle could prevent millions

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The latest results from a trial of a pill form popular GLP-1 medications offer enough information for the Eli Lilly to request global regulatory approval this year, the company said Tuesday. Lilly, which makes the injectable drugs Zepbound to treat obesity and Mounjaro and Trulicity to treat diabetes, is

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75 from progressing to type 2 diabetes, a new study found. “Our study shows that modest, sustained changes in diet and lifestyle could prevent millions of

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesperson from the US Department of Health and Human Services said. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maryland Department of Health are