Health

By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — If you have ever felt tension in the front of your hips after sitting too long, struggled with lower back pain or had difficulty touching your toes, your hip flexors may be to blame. These often overlooked muscles play a vital role in posture, climbing stairs, running and more,

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Cape May, New Jersey (CNN) — First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first full moon in May to mate and lay their eggs. The birds soon follow. Hundreds of thousands of squawking, migrating shorebirds descend on these beaches

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird flu that keep showing signs of their own pandemic potential, health experts told CNN Friday. “We kind of have our head in the sand about how widespread

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Last year, I learned to eat the bagel without shame. This year, I’ve given myself peace from all the outside noise about food and bodies. Making peace with food has been at the top of my priority list for a while. As a wellness reporter, I’ve seen the studies

By Monica Haider, CNN (CNN) — Traditionally, the holidays are for spending time with family and friends, perhaps with a varying degree of religious rituals or practices. There’s also pressure not to miss certain family celebrations, but there will be times you can’t make it – whether by choice or circumstance. So, if you’re spending

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The holidays are here, as are the parties, happy hours and other get-togethers that often offer abundant mixed drinks, beer and wine. We all know that too much alcohol is bad for us, but how much is too much? Is it better to drink a lot on one day

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Around the holidays, when many people are baking cookies for Santa, enjoying cocktail parties or having festive family feasts, some adults who use popular medications for diabetes or weight loss explore skipping doses for a week or two. These medications can suppress appetite or sometimes cause uncomfortable side effects

By Allison Hope, CNN (CNN) — For those folks who may be finding that holiday cheer is hard to come by, there is an alternative to the cheery decking of the halls. There is an available option to celebrate a holiday and maintain a healthy dose of grumpiness. That’s right — there is Festivus. December

Personal essay by Mary Frances Ruskell, CNN (CNN) — I spent my freshman year of high school despairing that I hadn’t invented a synthetic human heart, launched a tech start-up, written an opera or raised $10 million for charity. I ran track, sang in a cathedral choir and taught little kids how to kayak in

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — How often one should poop has been a hot topic, with experts saying the numerical range partly depends on several personal factors. But is there a similar prescription for how frequently you should pee? The answer is yes, experts say — and veering too far outside of this range

By Amy O’Kruk, CNN Anyone who’s seen December classics like “Home Alone” or “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” knows that holiday decor can pack a punch: Tree baubles turn to glass-shard booby traps, and string lights become tripwires. While neither movie landed any characters in the hospital, in reality, Christmas decor debacles send thousands of Americans

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Since Ozempic blasted onto the stage in 2017 with its approval for type 2 diabetes, drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have been battling to leapfrog each other with newer and more effective medicines to turbo-charge diabetes and weight-loss results with the class known as GLP-1 receptor agonists. Novo

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — The California Department of Food and Agriculture has issued a statewide recall of raw milk produced and packaged by Valley Milk Simply Bottled after H5N1 bird flu virus was found in samples from a bulk tank at the company’s dairy farm. The recall applies to all Valley Milk and

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has finalized new standards that foods must meet before they can be labeled as “healthy.” Requirements now include limits on saturated fat, sodium and added sugars. “Healthy” foods must also contain a certain amount of food from at least one of the key