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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Each time LaTonya looks at framed photos of herself breastfeeding her baby son for the first time, she swells with emotion. As a mother living with HIV in Colorado, it was a moment she wanted to commemorate. “That’s how important it was to me to be able to breastfeed,”

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Injected medications that treat diabetes and obesity increase the risk of a rare but serious side effect: stomach paralysis, according to new data on the real-world use of the drugs. At least three new studies based on large collections of patient records show that the risk of being diagnosed

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — One of the big mysteries with popular GLP-1 medications for weight loss is why some people will lose 20% or more of their starting body weight on the drugs while for others, the scale will barely budge. One study found that about 1 in 7 people who used semaglutide

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN (CNN) — I’ve been reporting on Alzheimer’s disease for more than two decades, and any progress in the field has seemed incremental at best, leaving most patients and their loved ones with few options. But in the process of filming a new documentary, “The Last Alzheimer’s Patient,” I met with

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Preventive neurologist Dr Richard Isaacson stared at the numbers on the fax in astonishment. Blood biomarkers of telltale signs of early Alzheimer’s disease in the brain of his patient, 55-year-old entrepreneur Simon Nicholls, had all but disappeared in a mere 14 months. “I had to catch my breath. It

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — The ultraprocessed foods your kids eat now may be putting them a greater risk for cardiometabolic problems – like heart attack, stroke and diabetes – in adulthood, a new study suggests. “Our study highlights the importance of promoting the substitution of ultra-processed foods with healthier alternatives, such as unprocessed

By Dr. Katie Hurley, CNN (CNN) — When my kids were in elementary school, the weeks between spring break and summer vacation seemed to go by at warp speed, mostly because I spent most of that time running the children from event to event in between work meetings. From Spring Sing to Mother’s Day breakfast

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Covid-19 levels are about the lowest they’ve ever been in the United States, but another new crop of virus variants once again threatens to disrupt the downward trend as the country heads into summer. KP.2 — one of the so-called FLiRT variants — has overtaken JN.1 to become the

CNN, CDC, EMED DIGITAL HEALTHCARE By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Covid-19 levels are about the lowest they’ve ever been in the United States, but another new crop of virus variants once again threatens to disrupt the downward trend as the country heads into summer. KP.2 — one of the so-called FLiRT variants — has

By Carma Hassan, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 900,000 tea bags from the organic tea brand Yogi are being recalled due to a detectable amount of pesticide on the product, according to an enforcement report posted on the US Food and Drug Administration’s website. The pesticides were discovered during “routine audit procedures,” Yogi said in a statement Friday. “While Yogi does not

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Laboratory tests by the US Department of Agriculture haven’t found any H5N1 bird flu virus in raw beef, but they are a good reminder why eating rare hamburgers can be risky. As part of a suite of tests conducted to check safe food handling advice after the detection of

By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday suspended funding to EcoHealth Alliance, a virus research organization tied to controversy about the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19. The agency also proposed the group be blocked from receiving federal funds in the future, possibly for years. Before Covid-19

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Skin cancer is by far the most common form of cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. With summer coming in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s time to check in with CNN wellness expert and emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen about the dangers of skin cancer and

ByBy Julie Rovner and Rachana Pradhan, KFF Health News (KFF Health News) — Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona. Blum turned to programs

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Instead of a traditional speculum-involved pelvic exam to screen for cervical cancer, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for patients to have the option to collect their own vaginal samples for screening in a health care setting, such as at their doctor’s office, an urgent

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — When Cheri Ferguson started taking Ozempic last year, she said, she hoped to lose about 50 pounds she’d gained during the Covid-19 pandemic. Over about three months, she told CNN in June, the medicine – which is approved for type 2 diabetes and used off-label for weight loss –

CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Eating a vegan, vegetarian or lacto-ovo vegetarian diet significantly reduces the overall risk of developing cancer, heart disease and dying early from cardiovascular disease, according to a new “umbrella” analysis of more than 20 years of research. An umbrella review looks at existing metanalyses of large numbers of

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Eating a vegan, vegetarian or lacto-ovo vegetarian diet significantly reduces the overall risk of developing cancer, heart disease and dying early from cardiovascular disease, according to a new “umbrella” analysis of more than 20 years of research. An umbrella review looks at existing metanalyses of large numbers of studies,

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — I’ve been working steadily for hours but feel as if I haven’t even started. My attention is being pulled from my assigned task — writing this story — by a myriad of what I believe are necessary work interruptions. (OK, a couple were from my cat, who also firmly

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — After a steep rise during the Covid-19 pandemic, preliminary data shows that drug overdose deaths in the United States ticked down in 2023 for the first time in five years. About 107,500 people died from a drug overdose in 2023, according to data from the US Centers for Disease