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By Kristen Rogers, CNN You and your crush have been dating for a few months now, and you’ve agreed to take the next step by committing to a long-term relationship — then you hear something that catches you off guard. They want to quit their job in a year and live off the grid, while

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent It’s hard to believe we are face-to-face with a new health crisis, monkeypox, before we are even out of the woods with the previous — but still very much current — crisis, Covid-19. The pandemic, which has held the United States and almost every other country in

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Neurologist Rudy Tanzi was still a graduate student at Harvard Medical School when he helped identify the first gene associated with hereditary Alzheimer’s — amyloid beta-protein precursor, or APP. “It was the summer of ’86. I was 27 years old,” Tanzi recalls. “I remember thinking that for the first time since

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN There is growing concern that the United States may have lost its chance to contain the monkeypox virus, as the nation has been slow to vaccinate those most at risk on a broader scale. “I think we’re going to have to live with it until they vaccinate every high-risk person,” Dr.

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN In 1990, internal medicine specialist Dr. Dean Ornish did what no other doctor had been able to do: He published results of a randomized clinical trial that used advanced imagery scans to show coronary artery disease could be reversed with nothing more than diet, exercise, stress reduction and social support. “I

By Stephanie Mansour, CNN With summer weather and the sun shining, getting outside for some fresh air is highly appealing right now. Whether you head out in the morning to get energized for a busy day or in the evening to wind down, you can use this time to engage both body and mind. In

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Called “forever chemicals” because they fail to break down fully in the environment, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, have been used since the 1950s to make consumer products nonstick, oil- and water-repellent, and resistant to temperature change. This family of synthetic chemicals has been a topic of public

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Many people who are dieting and exercising to intentionally lose weight will come up against the dreaded plateau. The decrease in the number on the scale they had seen for some time stops, and they can’t seem to push below that barrier, even with continued restrictions, said Shana Minei Spence, a

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Testing for monkeypox, a crucial part of containing the growing outbreak, has gotten off to a sluggish start at the five commercial laboratories that have nearly all the US’s monkeypox testing capacity, CNN has learned. Mayo Clinic Laboratories, for example, has the capacity to process 1,000 monkeypox samples