CNN – Health

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A relatively new nicotine product with a tobacco-free and smokeless design has drawn in a wave of new users in just the past year: oral nicotine pouches that sit at the gums and are nearly undetectable when in use. The leading brand Zyn, introduced in the United States in

By Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is allowing the use of Rejoyn, the first prescription digital treatment for major depressive disorder. Rejoyn, made by Otsuka Pharmaceutical and Click Therapeutics, is a smartphone app intended for use alongside antidepressant medications for people 22 and older who have a diagnosis of

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A coalition of civil rights and medical organizations said Tuesday that they are suing the US Food and Drug Administration because it has missed its own deadline to take action to ban menthol cigarettes. “This is profits over people, and we are just really asking on behalf of the

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Do irrational thoughts sometimes crowd your mind, leaving you feeling worried or maybe even on the verge of a panic attack? What may calm your nerves is asking yourself a series of questions that challenge those disquieting thoughts’ legitimacy and perspective — this process is known as Socratic questioning.

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The disproportionate level of discrimination that LGBT adults experience in their daily lives extends to the doctor’s office, and these negative experiences have led many to change their health care and behavior, a new survey from KFF found. A third of LGBT adults say that a doctor or another

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — About 1 in every 10 people in the US who uses Adderall or similar combination drugs to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been affected by an ongoing shortage, a new analysis suggests. The US Food and Drug Administration announced that Adderall was in shortage in mid-October 2022, and the share of

By Saira Mueller, CNN (CNN) — Are you forcing yourself to continue learning a language? What about holding out for closure in a relationship that ended abruptly? Or continuing a friendship that leaves you feeling drained more often than not? It could be ok — healthy, even — to give things like this up, says Adam

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — There are plenty of reasons why many health professionals don’t want you on a restrictive diet. Restrictive diets are a way of eating that reduces calories to below someone’s energy needs and/or limits the macronutrients or food groups a person eats, said Jennifer Rollin, founder of The Eating Disorder

CNN By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to cardiovascular fitness, you may tend to focus on activities that move you forward, such as walking, running and cycling. Likewise, in weight training, most traditional exercises center on forward and backward motion, occurring in what’s known as the sagittal plane. But there is another plane of

By Carma Hassan and Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — A person who worked on a dairy farm and had “direct contact with dairy cattle” tested positive for avian flu in Texas late last week, the state’s Department of State Health Services said Monday. The case was confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and

By Dana Santas, CNN (CNN) — A strong handshake generally makes a good first impression, but there is more to your grip than conveying confidence and trustworthiness. Science points to a stronger grip as an important key to overall strength and longevity. The strength of your handshake even indicates heart health, research has found. While

By Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services issued new guidance on Monday clarifying that hospitals must obtain written consent for sensitive exams, such as pelvic, breast or prostate exams – especially if patients will be under anesthesia during the exam. Top officials from HHS, Centers for Medicare and

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — On its surface, The Zero Co looks like any other bottle shop. It’s a small space, just 600 square feet, with wide windows welcoming the sunlight. Wooden shelves line the white walls, holding rows of glass liquor and wine bottles, bitters, six packs of beer, seltzer, and the like.

By Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — The internet and social media are rife with marketing ploys: It’s hard to surf the Web or scroll through platforms such as Instagram, Facebook or TikTok without having a slew of ads pop up left, right and center about exactly what you were just viewing. The cookies and algorithms (and

By Alex Leeds Matthews, Matt Stiles, Deidre McPhillips and Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Recent outbreaks of measles in the United States are driving up case counts and raising alarm among public health experts, especially as vaccination rates among children lag. The concern this year comes after the first reported deaths in the US since

By Mira Cheng, CNN (CNN) — There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump’s manufacturer and posted on the US Food and Drug Administration’s website. The pumps, left-sided

By Ian Kerner, CNN (CNN) — Sex equals intercourse. If you’re not having sex like porn stars, you’re not having good sex. Scheduled sex is unnatural. We live in a society in which we are barraged with those sex myths. One of the most pernicious myths is that sexual desire is “an electric spark of

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Health officials are alerting doctors to be on the lookout for certain types of rare, serious meningococcal infections that are on the rise in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new health alert that these infections, which are caused by a certain strain of Neisseria

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, women in the US can walk into a store and buy a supply of birth control pills right off the shelf, without the need for a prescription or health insurance. Opill, the first oral contraceptive approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter