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By Jessica DuLong, CNN The last thing I need as a parent is another expert making me feel bad. Thankfully, clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy proclaims parents are, and have always been, good inside — and so are kids. (She has three.) In her new book, “Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You

By Jen Christensen, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech said Friday that the immune responses against Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants were “substantially higher” in people who got its new bivalent booster compared with people who received the companies’ original Covid-19 vaccine. The bivalent booster that targets the original coronavirus strain and the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants became

Opinion by Dr. Tom Frieden and Precious Matsoso In late June of this year, Ghana’s health authorities received some disturbing news: Two cases of viral hemorrhagic fever were detected in the country. Blood samples from the infected individuals came back positive for Marburg virus, a deadly disease that can kill most of those infected. The

By Jen Christensen, CNN A preventive treatment for lower respiratory tract infections caused by RSV got the go ahead from the European Commission on Friday, according to one of the companies that make it. The treatment is the first of its kind to protect all infants in their first year of life. A spokesperson from

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Deaths caused by alcohol use in the United States spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic, killing more than 49,000 people in 2020, according to data published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The alcohol-induced death rate has been steadily increasing in recent decades, but it jumped 26% between

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The first new type of antibiotic developed in more than 20 years to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs) appears to be so effective that the pharmaceutical company stopped testing and will soon submit its data to the US Food and Drug Administration for approval. Drug company GSK said Thursday the new

By Raenu Charles, CNN Parents and caregivers should not use infant head-shaping pillows meant to change an infant’s head shape or that claim to treat a medical condition, the US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. “The use of head shaping pillows can create an unsafe sleep environment for infants and may contribute to the

By Katia Hetter, CNN Welcome to this year’s flu season. This year’s flu strain has already begun spreading across the United States, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been at least 880,000 cases of influenza, nearly 7,000 hospitalizations and, tragically, 360 deaths from the flu this

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN For the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for clinicians and patients on the use of prescription opioids to treat short-term and long-term pain. The new guidelines from the CDC, published Thursday, include 12 recommendations for clinicians who are prescribing opioids

By Angela Duckworth, CNN Decades before George Takei became Mr. Sulu on the original “Star Trek” series, he was imprisoned for a crime he never committed. When he was a small child, he and his family, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were sent to World War II internment camps on US soil. Decades later,

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN High levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, have been detected in more brands and batches of dry shampoo products, according to a new report from Valisure, an independent laboratory. Just last month, certain aerosol dry shampoos — including some Dove, Nexxus, Suave, TIGI and TRESemmé products — were voluntarily recalled because

By Brenda Goodman, CNN More than half of monkeypox cases in the current outbreak may have been passed to others before symptoms appeared, according to a new modeling study from the United Kingdom. The study, which was led by disease modelers at the UK Health Security Agency, is contrary to current public health guidance about

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in people with a treatment-resistant form of the disease, a new study found. The randomized, double-blind clinical trial, which authors called “the largest of its kind,” compared results of a 25-milligram dose to a

By Elizabeth Cohen and Justin Lape, CNN This summer, when the shocking news emerged that there was a case of polio in New York, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immediately turned to Shoshana Bernstein. The agency urgently needed to increase polio vaccination rates in Rockland County, New York. And while Bernstein is