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By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech said Friday that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review designation to their application for full approval of their Covid-19 vaccine, and an FDA official said the decision will come “soon”. The FDA official told CNN on Friday that a decision on full approval is

By Megan Marples, CNN Cigarette smoking is very addictive and can have long-term, adverse health effects. But there is hope for those who want to quit thanks to innovative apps, help lines and proven coping strategies. In 2019, more than 34 million Americans smoked, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That

By Matt Villano, CNN The first time Justin Salinger and his wife experienced a miscarriage was one of the worst days of their lives together. The Santa Rosa, California, couple had spent months imagining what and who their baby would become. In an instant, those hopes and dreams were gone. They wept. They cursed fate.

By Sarah Molano, CNN Teenagers who have close, secure relationships with their families are more likely to extend empathy to their peers, according to a new study. More specifically, when teens feel safe, supported by and connected to parents or other adult caregivers, they are better equipped to pass the empathy they receive on to

By John Bonifield, CNN Americans 12 and older can get a Covid-19 vaccine, but younger children are still waiting. With many schools across the United States now just weeks from reopening for the fall semester, pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna are still doing clinical trials to see how coronavirus vaccines work in children under 12

By Deblina Chakraborty, CNN Five full days a week, every week: After more than a year of remote learning, hybrid schedules and missed experiences, getting back to school — “normal” school — is all many parents and students want. But with Covid-19 surging again in some US states and concerns over new virus variants growing,

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Covid-19 vaccination rates are down and cases are on the rise, exacerbated by the more transmissible Delta variant — and an expert says the key to winning the race against the spread is getting more Americans vaccinated. “We’re losing time here. The Delta variant is spreading, people are dying, we can’t

By Maggie Fox, CNN A brain implant has helped restore a type of speech to a man more than 15 years after a stroke robbed him of the ability to speak, researchers reported Wednesday. They’re calling it a neuroprosthesis, and while it’s only one patient for now, the team at the University of California, San

By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Los Angeles County is seeing a surge in new Covid-19 coronavirus cases, topping 1,000 for the fifth straight day Wednesday, and though hospitalizations remain low, each infected patient admitted to a county hospital has not had all their vaccine shots, officials said. “To date, we have not had a patient admitted

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The coronavirus pandemic may have caused the “most widespread” disruption of routine childhood vaccinations in recent history, a new modeling study suggests. At least 17 million children worldwide missed routine vaccinations because of the pandemic, according to the study’s estimates, published Wednesday in the journal The Lancet. Unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent We’ve all heard it said over and over again: We’re now in the phase of the pandemic when it’s a race between vaccinations and the variants. It has been neck and neck for a while, and honestly, I was ready to cheer a vaccine victory. We nearly

By Rachel Trent, CNN After more than a year of Americans being urged to practice the safe six (feet), infectious disease specialists want to remind them about safe sex. While different people reacted to pandemic safety guidelines in different ways, for some Americans, lockdown meant less sex. But as more vaccines are administered, social restrictions

By Maggie Fox, CNN Drug overdose deaths rose by close to 30% in the United States in 2020, hitting the highest number ever recorded, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. More than 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020, according to provisional data released by the CDC’s National Center for

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN If you thought living through the pandemic was a waking nightmare, just imagine what it’s been like in dreams. Many of us experienced vivid, frightening nightmares throughout the worst of the pandemic. Depending on our level of trauma — the loss of a loved one or being a health care worker

By Michael Nedelman, CNN It was a pivotal public health crisis in America before the Covid-19 pandemic — and then we stopped talking about it. E-cigarettes became ubiquitous in high schools across the country, resulting in scores of teens addicted to nicotine. And though industry leader Juul Labs denied that was ever its intent, the

Opinion by Allison Hope, CNN Food in their belly. A roof over their head. A reassuring hug after a tough day. An ear to listen to the latest thing that so-and-so said to so-and-so about such-and-such. These are the things our children need to thrive. What doesn’t matter is the gender of the parent —

By John Duffy, CNN During the pandemic, I was working with an adult female client to resolve a number of unanticipated family issues: a son who worked too little in his Zoom-based classes, clashes with her husband about financial concerns and how much time to spend together as a family at home. We all faced

By Katie Hunt, CNN Creativity is a uniquely human quality that’s difficult to define and, perhaps, even harder to objectively measure. Of course, that doesn’t mean that scientists haven’t tried, and a study published in June in the journal PNAS proposes a new and surprisingly simple test to gauge this ability. It only takes a