Health

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Are you a sucker for large, liquid “puppy-dog” eyes gazing soulfully up at you, begging for, well, just about anything? Of course you are, but don’t blame your pup. A new study finds that humans are the culprit behind those irresistibly sweet peepers — in fact, we bred those doleful eyes

By Jessica DuLong, CNN In recent years, public figures openly sharing their mental health struggles have helped lift fellow sufferers out of silent shame and stigma. A few decades earlier, the introduction of new medications to treat depression and anxiety disrupted the depiction of mental health problems as a personal failing in favor of an

By John Bonifield, CNN US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced a sweeping review of the nation’s lead public health agency Monday. The review will evaluate the CDC’s structure, systems and processes, Walensky told CDC staff in an email. Starting April 11, Jim Macrae, an administrator with the US Department

By Kristen Rogers, CNN For some people, coffee jump-starts their bowel movements in addition to their energy. Despite the drink’s popularity, there isn’t a lot of research on why coffee sends many people running to the bathroom within minutes of consuming it. “In some cases, as with coffee and bowel movements, there likely just hasn’t

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Pregnant women who were exposed to cannabis products that contained THC and CBD were more likely to have children with increased fat mass and blood sugar levels at age 5, a new pilot study found. “There’s this misconception that cannabis is safe,” said study author Brianna Moore, an assistant professor at

By Stephanie Mansour, CNN Many of us have walked to take breaks from work, burn calories and be more active outside during the pandemic. As we gear up for warmer weather, perhaps you’re looking for a fun way to take your walk up a notch. As a cardio and strength-training full-body workout, roller-skating is a

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The stories of sleeping pills gone wrong are legendary. Ask any flight attendant, and you’ll hear amusing tales of people sleepwalking, taking off their clothes or even standing up and peeing into the neighboring airline seat. The use of sleeping pills can also be deadly. Up to a half a million

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Fewer people are hospitalized with Covid-19 in the United States now than at any other point in the pandemic, but hospitals and staff continue to feel the strain. As of Friday, there are 16,138 people in the hospital with Covid-19 — fewer than there have ever been since the US Department

By Michael Nedelman, CNN Stopping the next major coronavirus variant involves knowing where it might come from. With Omicron, those answers are still a mystery: How did a variant that looked so different from all its older cousins appear so suddenly? How to explain its jumble of mutations, many of which had rarely been seen

By Brenda Goodman, CNN It takes just a tiny virus-laden droplet — about the width of a human blood cell — to infect someone with Covid-19. That’s just one of the findings from research that deliberately infected healthy volunteers with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The findings were published Thursday in the journal Nature Medicine. Challenge studies

By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN In 2003, the Human Genome Project made history when it sequenced 92% of the human genome. But for nearly two decades since, scientists have struggled to decipher the remaining 8%. Now, a team of nearly 100 scientists from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium has unveiled the complete human genome — the first

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Mental health concerns among high school students in the United States were exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to survey results published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been significant increases in high school students reporting persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, considering suicide or