By Brenda Goodman Big changes are coming to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary as the nation’s lead public health agency. CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky met with senior leadership at the agency this morning to lay out her plans for overhauling how the agency works.
Continue Reading By Katia Hetter, CNN Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced key changes to its nationwide Covid-19 guidelines. Among them was the end of required quarantine after someone is exposed to a close contact with the coronavirus. The CDC also revised isolation guidance for people infected with Covid-19. With the required
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN Two human cases of West Nile virus have been reported in New York as the virus has been detected in a record number of mosquitoes in the city, health officials said Tuesday. Across the city’s five boroughs, 1,068 mosquito pools have tested positive for the virus, according to the New York
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN About three months into the ongoing monkeypox outbreak in the US, there are more than 12,000 cases and counting. But despite a growing supply of the Jynneos vaccine — and a new strategy that could stretch the current supply five times further — there is still no evidence that protection is
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN The Biden administration has been planning for how to get past the crisis phase of the Covid-19 pandemic and will stop buying vaccines, treatments and tests as early as this fall, White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said on Tuesday. “One of the things we’ve spent a lot of
Continue Reading By Naomi Thomas, CNN The first possible case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox — recently reported in two men and their pet in Paris — had been a theoretical risk up till now, said Dr. Rosamund Lewis, technical lead on the monkeypox response for the World Health Organization. The men, who live together and are
Continue Reading By Casey Barber, CNN It’s the sweetest part of the summer — this is the stretch of the year when sweet corn is in season. Fresh corn is at its peak between July and September for most of the United States — and since the kernels are at their sweetest and juiciest as soon as
Continue Reading By Carma Hassan and Jen Christensen, CNN Hearing aids should get cheaper and possibly even better due to a long-awaited rule change that the US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday. Instead of getting a prescription, visiting a hearing health professional and having a custom fitting, people with mild to moderate hearing loss will be
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN A hallmark of the ongoing monkeypox outbreak is that most cases have been linked to sexual activity, and this has prompted some debate around whether to describe the illness as a sexually transmitted disease. “Many infectious diseases, although we will classify them in one manner of transmission, have multiple mechanisms of
Continue Reading Katheryn Houghton, Kaiser Health News LIVINGSTON, Mont. — Shannan Piccolo walked into a hotel with a tote bag full of Narcan and a speech about how easy it is to use the medicine that can reverse opioid overdoses. “Hopefully your business would never have to respond to an overdose, but we’d rather have you have
Continue Reading By Naomi Thomas, CNN Albert Bourla, CEO of drugmaker Pfizer, has tested positive for Covid-19 and has “very mild symptoms,” he said in a tweet on Monday. “I would like to let you know that I have tested positive for #COVID19,” Bourla wrote. “I am thankful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine,
Continue Reading By Sandee LaMotte, CNN You’re catching a 5 a.m. flight tomorrow. Your boss, a true early bird, has set an unbearably early weekly meeting. School is starting, and you have to rise and shine to goose the family into gear. The clock has rolled back, and suddenly you’re climbing out of bed in the dark.
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN One teen pulls around a suitcase full of drugs, another is the victim of statutory rape, and many sex scenes show full-frontal nudity. That’s “Euphoria,” which might be your favorite show — but it’s understandable if it is not the model you want for your own teens. So what do you
Continue Reading By Rachel Fadem, CNN Whether you are afraid of being ripped off or just feel out of your depth in conversations with auto mechanics, taking your car in for maintenance can be stressful. Jessica Chou knows that stress — and how it can be compounded by gender stereotypes around car knowledge. When she was younger,
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN Out of tens of thousands of monkeypox cases around the world this year, there have been a dozen deaths linked to the virus, and for the first time, some of them have been outside Africa, in countries where the virus doesn’t usually spread. More than 31,000 cases of monkeypox have been
Continue Reading By Jessica DuLong, CNN We know changes in the weather and seasons can affect mood, causing run-of-the-mill rainy-day blues and seasonal affective disorder. Now, it’s also important to recognize the harmful mental and physical health effects of long-term climate change. In her book “Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and
Continue Reading By Kristina Sgueglia and Jen Christensen, CNN Poliovirus has been detected in wastewater samples in New York City, suggesting likely local circulation of the virus, according to state and local health officials. “We are dealing with a trifecta. Covid is still very much here. Polio, we have identified polio in our sewage. And we’re still
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN Nearly 30% of children who were hospitalized for Covid-19 or MIS-C, a rare but serious Covid-related condition, had symptoms more than a couple of months after their diagnosis, a new study found. The study, published Friday in the journal Pediatrics, said the most common symptoms for children hospitalized with Covid-19 were
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman and Elizabeth Cohen, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the nation should move away from restrictive measures such as quarantines and social distancing and focus on reducing severe disease from Covid-19. In new guidelines released Thursday, the agency no longer recommends staying at least 6 feet away from
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN After a long day at work, it feels so much better to just leave the dirty dishes in the sink or put off looking at your finances — right? Don’t just call it laziness: After a long period of thinking hard, making decisions that favor ease in the short term but
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