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By Deidre McPhillips, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration is planning to recommend that certain childhood immunizations be broken up into five separate shots, each with a “small amount of the vaccine.” These “20% doses” would each be given six months apart, he said. “Instead of a child

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — One-third of women in the United States have struggled to get doctors to take their symptoms seriously, according to a new survey. And of those women, more than half said their health issues have affected their work and homelives. Many Americans have inadequate access to quality healthcare, said Stephanie

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Brad Pitt’s recent revelation that he’s drinking again in “a more restrained manner,” after seven years of sobriety following heavy drinking, sparked intense pushback. The actor’s past behavior aside, the larger controversy was in challenging the long-held idea that someone who struggled with alcohol in the past can’t ever

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Amid the worst measles outbreak in the US in decades, a surge that’s been driven largely by unvaccinated people, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received a standing ovation Thursday at the conference of the anti-vaccine advocacy group Children’s Health Defense, where he gave the

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The federal government approved updated Covid-19 vaccines for the 2026-27 respiratory virus season last month, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet made these vaccines available through a key federal program that covers access for about half of US children. The Vaccines for Children

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Smoking cigarettes doesn’t just cause lung cancer. The toxic smoke affects nearly every organ in the body — yet some of its most serious consequences may be less widely recognized. Smoking is a major cause of cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes, and exposure to secondhand smoke puts

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A fourth person with measles has died in Pennsylvania, the state announced Tuesday — marking the first time in decades the United States has recorded so many deaths in a single year. Measles deaths have been extremely rare in the United States because most people are protected by a

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Wednesday’s Senate confirmation hearing wasn’t the first time much of the American public met Dr. Nicole Saphier and heard her perspective; President Donald Trump’s nominee for US surgeon general is a health and wellness influencer who has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers through her podcast and social media

By Amanda Schupak, CNN The secret is out: Eating whole grains is good for you. Extensive research in the past two decades has shown that a diet rich in whole grains is associated with lower risks of heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes and helps people maintain a healthy weight.

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Pennsylvania has reported a fourth death related to measles, the latest in a growing outbreak that has also sparked ongoing political clashes. It has been decades since the United States has tallied this number of measles deaths; 1992 was the last time there were four measles deaths

By Cordilia James, CNN (CNN) — Since April, Matthew Juhren has spent up to 75 hours a week working remotely from his home office near Portland, Oregon. He spends most of that time alone. “The solitude of it all is new and different,” Juhren said, “and for an extroverted person, it can be difficult at

CNN By Lauren DePino, CNN (CNN) — Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles knows what it’s like to live in fear of her grief eating her alive. “I felt like I would dissolve, like it was too much feeling,” Bareilles told me of the deluge of grief she’d been enduring. Not only had she lost two close friends

By Lauren DePino, CNN (CNN) — Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles knows what it’s like to live in fear of her grief eating her alive. “I felt like I would dissolve, like it was too much feeling,” Bareilles told me of the deluge of grief she’d been enduring. Not only had she lost two close friends to

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that exposure to rabies appears to be on the rise across the country. From July through August, the agency received 17% more rabies-related inquiries than in the same time period last year, including reports of mass exposure events, according

By Jacqueline Howard, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that this summer’s outbreak of cyclosporiasis tied to iceberg lettuce has ended, as of Friday, marking a significant public health moment. The federal update, released Friday morning, adds that while the outbreak is over, the US Food

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons. In a report published Thursday, the AI company known for its Claude model said it considers biological misuse one of the “most serious risks” to

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Young children explore the world by touching, tasting and putting things in their mouths. That curiosity can become dangerous when something that looks like an ordinary candy or cookie contains cannabis. In the United States, accidental ingestions of recreational drugs have surged by more than 3,300% among children younger

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — A study of nearly a million people has found new evidence to suggest that drinking scalding hot coffees and teas could significantly increase a person’s risk of getting cancer in their esophagus. Drinking these beverages very hot, rather than warm, is associated with a three-fold risk of esophageal

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Even a small amount of light exposure during sleep may change the shape and function of heart muscles, increasing the risk of future heart disease, a new study found. “Light pollution has emerged as a new risk factor for cardiovascular disease,” said senior study author Dr. Lu Qi, the