CNN – Health

CNN By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Janet McCaskill was on vacation in Arizona with her husband and best friend when she heard that President Donald Trump had suggested he might be able to bring the cost of popular weight-loss drugs down to $150 a month. “The thought of it going to $150 a month

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Janet McCaskill was on vacation in Arizona with her husband and best friend when she heard that President Donald Trump had suggested he might be able to bring the cost of popular weight-loss drugs down to $150 a month. “The thought of it going to $150 a month is

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN (CNN) — One of the latest fitness fads trending on social media is “Japanese walking,” a 30-minute exercise regimen in which you alternate walking at a normal pace with bursts of speed. It’s easy to see the appeal. Japanese walking is a relatively short, accessible workout that doesn’t require a

By Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — Nobody ever wants to hear they have cancer, but when it strikes a young person, the news is perhaps even more devastating because everything about the future they were imagining and working toward is thrown into question. Unfortunately, early-onset cancer — disease in people younger than 50 years old

By Faye Chiu, CNN (CNN) — Do you get enough shut-eye? We know a good night’s sleep is essential for health, yet many do not consistently get enough of it. About 1 in 3 American adults do not regularly get recommended amounts of uninterrupted sleep they need for optimal health, and millions turn to supplements,

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — It’s that time of year when the leaves are turning golden, there’s a chill in the air and the threat of respiratory viruses like Covid-19, influenza or RSV looms across the country. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects the 2025-26 fall and winter respiratory disease season

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Brain-training games are all the rage, but whether they prevent cognitive decline has been debatable. Studies in recent years have gone back and forth on the topic, with no definitive conclusion. Many people have started playing Wordle or doing crossword puzzles, but those brain ticklers don’t appear to improve

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has given clearance to another blood test to help assess Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of cognitive decline, providing a broader understanding of when the disease can be ruled out. Roche Diagnostics said Monday that its Elecsys pTau181 test, developed in collaboration with

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Going on antidepressants can give many people their life back, but for some there is a catch. About 25% to 80% of people who take antidepressants experience sexual side effects to some degree during treatment. Now, a tool may one day help patients both feel better and keep their

By Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of staff fired from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday have been reinstated, according to the American Federation of Government Employees. After a new round of layoff notices sent late Friday night to around 1,300 workers at the CDC, approximately 700 were

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Humans are living 20 years longer than they were in 1950, according to new research with all 204 countries and territories studied reporting declines in their mortality rates since then. But vast inequities remain, and there is an “emerging crisis” of rising death rates among adolescents and young adults.

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, according to four sources with knowledge of the layoffs. “The administration did not like that CDC data did not support

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — In this chaotic world of busy schedules, stressful current events and personal responsibilities, growing distracted from your internal world is common. Whether intentional or not, “people may believe they are ‘fine’ while functioning on autopilot, overworking or numbing with social media doom scrolling, food, alcohol or even checking out

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — A deadly measles outbreak in Texas ended in August, but outbreaks in other parts of the United States continue to add hundreds of new measles cases to this year’s record national total. There have been an average of 27 new measles cases reported each week since the end of

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A new working group of outside advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will convene to assess the safety, effectiveness and timing of the shots children and adolescents get, as well as whether the schedule should be changed, according to a new document posted on the

By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — During workouts, do you think about your breathing — or does it just happen in the background? Most people understand the importance of proper exercise form, yet they often overlook the significance of breathing technique. How and when you breathe during strength training directly affects muscle engagement, core stability

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Most of the American public does not approve of the way Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running the nation’s health agencies, according to a new KFF poll, and there’s an erosion of trust in reliable vaccine information from the federal government in particular. Nearly 6 in 10 adults in

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scientists have had early success

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — California made history Wednesday by enacting the first law in the United States to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, from what’s projected to be over 1 billion meals served to California schoolchildren in the 2025-26 school year. By signing the “Real Food, Healthy Kids Act”

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine — better known as the MMR shot —should be split into three separate vaccines, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Acting Director Jim O’Neill said this week. His post on X included similar language posted on X by President Donald Trump