CNN – Health

By Amanda Musa, John Bonifield and Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Clara Pitts has always strived for perfection. The 17-year-old Utah native has been named a 2023 National Merit Scholarship finalist. And she heads to Brigham Young University as a freshman this fall. But despite all of her achievements, Clara has one thing weighing on her mind:

By Kyla Russell, CNN Researchers say they’ve found a possible link between regular laxative use and a person’s risk of dementia, but experts note that the research is very early and should be interpreted with caution. According to the researchers, from medical institutions across China as well as the University of Cambridge and Harvard Medical

By Jacqueline Howard and Sandee LaMotte, CNN The plant-based milk you buy may soon have a revised label. The US Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance Wednesday on how companies should identify plant-based products that are marketed and sold as alternatives to dairy milk, such as almond, oat or soy milk. Any plant-based milk

By Jen Christensen, CNN Most Americans feel “significant discomfort” about the idea of their doctors using artificial intelligence to help manage their health, a new survey finds, but they generally acknowledge AI’s potential to reduce medical mistakes and to eliminate some of the problems doctors may have with racial bias. Artificial intelligence is the theory

By Will Wintercross, Global Health Reporting Center A doctor who colleagues say cared for thousands of Syrians over his career was among more than 48,000 killed by the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria. He was buried last week. The mid-morning low winter sun cast long shadows as the body of Dr. Bahig Dwedari was

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Ouch, that aching back! Perhaps it’s from sitting too long, picking up a heavy object, a sudden slip or fall, or an aging spine — whatever the cause, sudden pain in the lower back is a common complaint. In fact, low back pain is the leading cause of years lived with

By Jen Christensen, CNN In 2015, millions of people around the world tuned in to hear President Jimmy Carter announce that his cancer — metastatic melanoma — had spread to his brain, but he didn’t focus solely on his own disease. Rather, he used the international attention to talk about an illness he did not

By Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Dr. Ken Ginsburg is tired of swimming against the tide when it comes to public perceptions about teens. After decades of work strengthening families and raising teens of his own, the founding director of the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia says it’s time

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Even if you’ve never been physically active, you can start moving now and see benefits. That’s according to a new study, which found that any amount of physical activity starting at any age is helpful for long-term cognitive health. Researchers already knew that people who participate in physical activity in their

By Deidre McPhillips and Alicia Wallace, CNN Middle-age workers who tend to earn a low wage have an elevated mortality risk, especially when they experience unstable employment, according to a study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA. Researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health tracked employment and health metrics for about 4,000

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN When being truly honest with herself, Seun Adebagbo says, she can describe what drove her to go to medical school in a single word: self-preservation. Adebagbo, who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Boston, said that as a child, she often saw tensions between certain aspects of Western medicine