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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Ouch, that aching back! Perhaps it’s from sitting too long, picking up a heavy object, a sudden slip or fall, or an aging spine — whatever the cause, sudden pain in the lower back is a common complaint. In fact, low back pain is the leading cause of years lived with

By Jen Christensen, CNN In 2015, millions of people around the world tuned in to hear President Jimmy Carter announce that his cancer — metastatic melanoma — had spread to his brain, but he didn’t focus solely on his own disease. Rather, he used the international attention to talk about an illness he did not

By Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Dr. Ken Ginsburg is tired of swimming against the tide when it comes to public perceptions about teens. After decades of work strengthening families and raising teens of his own, the founding director of the Center for Parent and Teen Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia says it’s time

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Even if you’ve never been physically active, you can start moving now and see benefits. That’s according to a new study, which found that any amount of physical activity starting at any age is helpful for long-term cognitive health. Researchers already knew that people who participate in physical activity in their

By Deidre McPhillips and Alicia Wallace, CNN Middle-age workers who tend to earn a low wage have an elevated mortality risk, especially when they experience unstable employment, according to a study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA. Researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health tracked employment and health metrics for about 4,000

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN When being truly honest with herself, Seun Adebagbo says, she can describe what drove her to go to medical school in a single word: self-preservation. Adebagbo, who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Boston, said that as a child, she often saw tensions between certain aspects of Western medicine

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN Reckitt, one of the main formula manufacturers in the US, said Monday that it is recalling two batches of Enfamil ProSobee Simply Plant-Based Infant Formula because of possible cross-contamination with Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria. The recall is being conducted out of an abundance of caution, the company says, as tests of the

By Katia Hetter, CNN On Saturday, the Carter Center announced that former US President Jimmy Carter will be receiving hospice care at his home in Georgia. “After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Chronic pain, such as arthritis, cancer or back pain, lasting for over three months, raises the risk of cognitive decline and dementia, a new study found. The hippocampus, a brain structure highly associated with learning and memory, aged by about a year in a 60-year-old person who had one site of

By Jen Christensen, CNN For nearly a decade, Heather Rendulic hasn’t been able to use her left hand to feed herself or pick up something as light as a soup can — but that changed when she became part of a clinical trial that could radically improve the lives of people who’ve been paralyzed after

By John Bonifield, CNN Democratic Sen. John Fetterman’s hospitalization for the treatment of clinical depression has raised questions about the links between depression and strokes — and how long he’ll need to be hospitalized. The Pennsylvania Democrat, who suffered a stroke last May ahead of winning the Senate nomination, has experienced depression on and off

By Elissa Strauss, CNN For many parents, the “Is it normal?” game begins early on. I’ve sent question after question to family and friends, and of course, all worried parents ask our No. 1 frenemy, Google. Is it normal my fetus isn’t moving a lot in the morning? Is it normal my baby doesn’t nap?

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN Many parents turn quickly to fever-reducing medication when their children begin to show signs of a fever, but pediatricians are warning that may not be needed. According to a new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll, 1 in 3 parents would give their children medicine for a low-grade fever, defined as