By Brenda Goodman, CNN Many vaccinated kids experienced breakthrough infections during the Omicron surge, though protection against hospitalization remained stronger, a large new government-funded study found. The study compared the vaccination status of children ages 5 to 17 who were treated for Covid-19 symptoms in emergency departments, urgent care centers and hospitals across 10 states
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Entering menopause before age 40 is linked to a 35% higher risk of developing dementia later in life, a preliminary study finds. Premature menopause, as it is called, occurs when a woman’s ovaries stop creating hormones and the menstrual cycle ends by age 40. That’s about a dozen years earlier than
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By Amanda Sealy and Deidre McPhillips, CNN As the United States emerges from the Omicron wave, Covid-19 testing has slowed to a fraction of what it was at the beginning of the year. In mid-January, as daily case counts reached their peak, about 2.5 million tests were processed each day in the United States. Now,
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most adults in the United States are getting back to some degree of pre-pandemic normalcy, but they’re divided over concerns and expectations for what’s next. Three surveys conducted in February — from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Axios/Ipsos and the Washington Post in collaboration with ABC News — asked adults to assess
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By Megan Marples, CNN Some 80% of parents say they know little to nothing about CBD products, according to a new poll by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health at the University of Michigan Health. The term CBD stands for cannabidiol, a chemical compound found in marijuana and hemp, the report said.
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The overall number of babies born in the United States continues to follow a downward trend but “may be returning to pre-pandemic levels” now, a new federal report suggests. US births dropped 2% in the first half of 2021 compared with the year prior, according to the new National Center for
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By Steve Almasy, CNN Abbott Nutrition is recalling one lot of Similac PM 60/40 powdered infant formula due to another report of a dangerous bacterial infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration are investigating reports and complaints of infant illness related to formula from Abbott’s facility in
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN The effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines for children waned quickly during the Omicron surge, especially among children ages 5 to 11, but was still protective against severe disease, according to new data from the New York State Department of Health. Within one month of being fully vaccinated, effectiveness of the
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By Holly Yan, CNN Even some of the most ardent supporters of Covid-19 precautions are ditching mask mandates as health officials release new guidelines and hospitalizations plummet. Across the country, more governors are letting go of mask rules — including in states that have long held on to school mask mandates. California, Oregon and Washington
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, CNN Even some of the most ardent supporters of Covid-19 precautions are ditching mask mandates as health officials release new guidelines and hospitalizations plummet. Across the country, more governors are letting go of mask rules — including in states that have long held on to school mask mandates. California, Oregon and Washington
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN If you were obese, smoked or had a psychological disorder in adolescence, you might age faster than your peers as an adult, new research has found. Adolescents ages 11 to 15 who were obese, smoked cigarettes daily, or had a psychological disorder, such as anxiety, depression or ADHD, biologically aged nearly
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By Megan Marples, CNN As Shirley Oldale tucked her 3-year-old son into bed, he said, “I am sad because I wanted to play, and I don’t want to go to bed.” Oldale, a mother in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, has been teaching her child how to express his emotions since he was 30 months old.
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Kicking, hitting and screaming. It’s what happens at my house from the moment my kids wake up to the moment they go to sleep. My sons, ages 2 and 4, fight with each other over everything. Whether it’s sharing toys, the color of their dinner plates or even who has the
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By Naomi Thomas, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday revised the emergency use authorization for Evusheld, a monoclonal antibody against Covid-19 for immunocompromised people and those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, to double the initial dose. People who’ve already received the drug should go back for an additional dose as
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN During the most isolating worldwide pandemic in a century, it’s time take a closer look at what it means to be lonely. It’s an age-old dilemma that has been brought to the forefront of our attention over the last two years: How do we feel fulfilled and connected in our relationships?
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Russia’s attack on Ukraine has sent shockwaves around the globe, and many people are feeling stress, anxiety and fear. There is heartache for those in Ukraine suffering from the violence, uncertainty about what’s to come, powerlessness watching the events unfold, and even trauma from devastating images coming out of the region,
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By Katherine Dillinger, CNN Two preprint studies posted Saturday offer further evidence that the coronavirus originated in animals and spread to humans in late 2019 at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China. One of the studies — neither of which has been peer-reviewed or published in a professional journal — used spatial analysis to
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Kicking, hitting and screaming. It’s what happens at my house from the moment my kids wake up to the moment they go to sleep. My sons, ages 2 and 4, fight with each other over everything. Whether it’s sharing toys, the color of their dinner plates or even who has the
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By Elizabeth Cohen and Jacqueline Howard, CNN Most people in the United States live in areas where those who are healthy do not need to wear masks indoors, according to new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance — a sweeping change from what earlier Covid-19 metrics recommended. New CDC metrics indicate that about
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN For extremely sick patients, an advanced form of life support called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, cuts the risk of dying from Covid-19 by half, according to a new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University. But at the height of the pandemic, many patients couldn’t get the treatment because there weren’t
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