Health

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Social media users just won’t stop talking about how the stress hormone cortisol can cause cheeks and eyelids to swell out of recognition, a condition dubbed “moon face.” “Your face is like a moon, it can be very circular,” one woman claims on TikTok. “It can look swollen and

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Already multitool smart devices, Apple Watches added another buzzworthy feature last month: an app to detect sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a condition that causes a sleeper’s breathing to pause when the muscles of the throat relax too much and the airway collapses. It can contribute to loud snoring, which

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — An immunotherapy approach to treating advanced Hodgkin lymphoma may drastically increase patients’ chances of survival, including those as young as 12, according to a new clinical trial. The regimen, which involves the immunotherapy drug nivolumab along with three different chemotherapies, was found to result in a two-year progression-free survival

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Coca-Cola has recalled more than 13,000 cases of Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade because the mislabeled cartons actually contained the full-sugar version of the drink, according to a report from the US Food and Drug Administration. The FDA considers this a class II recall, involving a “health hazard situation where

By Sam Tupper (CNN) — Adding a six-week course of chemotherapy to the standard course of treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer resulted in a significant increase in survival rates, a new study shows. The study, published Monday in the journal The Lancet, involved 500 patients from 32 medical centers in Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico and

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A review of the medical records of thousands of adolescents treated for obesity found that kids who received the GLP-1 medications semaglutide or liraglutide were less likely to have suicidal thoughts or attempts than those treated with behavioral interventions. The study of about 7,000 children between ages 12 and

By Andrea Kane, CNN Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here. (CNN) — Ask most parents, and they will tell you that raising kids today is stressful: the lack of enough time, money and

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Attention, Medicare Advantage enrollees: It’s a good idea to review your plans during open enrollment, which begins Tuesday, so you don’t get caught by surprise next year. Although the swiftly growing market remains stable overall, insurers are making a flurry of changes that could leave some senior citizens hunting

By Sam Tupper, CNN (CNN) — After years of continuously rising opioid overdoses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose deaths decreased 3% in 2023, the first annual decrease since 2018. A new study shows how the increased administration of naloxone by non-medical laypersons – or bystanders with little to no medical training – could be one

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — When you go through the chore of cleaning your home, you hope the end result is a safer, healthier environment for you and your loved ones. But some of the products you are using might put your health at risk. “Many people assume that when you’re buying something on

By Shannon Carpenter, CNN (CNN) — I was one of the kids in Keller, Texas, who grew up playing Dungeons & Dragons. My brother was always the dungeon master, and I was a wizard who cast fireballs in very enclosed spaces. When the pandemic hit decades later, I started teaching my son and 15 other

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — When computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his work on machine learning, he immediately issued a warning about the power of the technology that his research helped propel: artificial intelligence. “It will be comparable with the Industrial Revolution,” he said just after

Essay by Alisyn Camerota, CNN (CNN) — It’s almost impossible to know what to say to someone in the throes of grief. We all want to say something comforting. Very few of us know what that is. I’ve learned this the hard way. My beloved husband of 23 years died at the end of July, two

By Susanne Paola Antonetta, CNN Asheville, North Carolina (CNN) — On the night Helene arrived, my husband, Bruce, and I half-slept through the pounding rain and raging wind and the alerts blasting from our smartphones: trees down and catastrophic flooding across much of Asheville. By the morning of September 28, the alerts had silenced — but not

By Jeffrey Kopp, CNN (CNN) — Researchers in Denmark have published a case report revealing an unexpected consequence of one of breakdancing’s most iconic moves: the headspin. Breakdancing, or breaking as it’s called by its athletes, made its debut as an official sport at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Breakers compete in battles judged on criteria like execution,