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By Rebekah Riess, CNN Wendy’s restaurants have been associated with an E. coli outbreak now reported in six states, with 97 people infected, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update Thursday. Of the 67 people for whom local public health officials have a detailed food history, 81% reported eating at

By Jen Christensen, CNN The organizers of Atlanta Black Pride, an LGBTQ celebration held each Labor Day weekend, have big plans. There will be parties and performances, workshops and financial literacy classes, brunches and a boat ride. This year also brings an event that no one ever expected would be necessary: a vaccination clinic. “We

By Jacqueline Howard and Jorge Engels, CNN Three people have died and several others in Argentina have become sick after developing pneumonia with no clear cause, the World Health Organization said Friday. Cases in eight health care workers and one other patient are linked to a private clinic in San Miguel de Tucumán, WHO spokesperson

By Brenda Goodman, CNN There’s a new kind of Covid-19 shot coming to a pharmacy or clinic near you. The US Food and Drug Administration and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on updated boosters that target the original strain of the coronavirus as well as the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.

By Elissa Strauss, CNN Among the many devastating, long-term impacts of Covid-19, the pandemic delivered a one-two punch preventing many children from developing independence and taking on more responsibility. Lockdowns, remote learning and quarantines placed onerous limits on children’s physical freedoms, curtailing their opportunities to do all sorts of things on their own outside home.

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Eating a lot of ultraprocessed foods significantly increases men’s risk of colorectal cancer and can lead to heart disease and early death in both men and women, according to two new, large-scale studies of people in the United States and Italy published Wednesday in British medical journal The BMJ. Ultraprocessed foods

By Megan Marples, CNN Eating a snack, going for a walk or scrolling through social media: No matter how you spend them, microbreaks of 10 minutes or less during work can increase vigor while decreasing fatigue, according to a meta-analysis published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. Researchers examined 22 studies from the past 30

By Jack Guy, CNN African American adults who participate in frequent religious activities, or hold deeper spiritual beliefs, are more likely to score higher in indicators linked to good heart health than those who don’t, according to new research. More religious participants had better scores for blood pressure, cholesterol and other metrics known to influence

By Melissa Mahtani, CNN If you’ve ever been bitten by a mosquito, you know how frustrating their bites can be. The little red bumps swell up almost immediately, creating an itch that once you start scratching only seems to get worse. The more you scratch, the more they itch — starting a vicious cycle that

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN After a historic drop in 2020, life expectancy in the United States took another significant hit in 2021. According to provisional data published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy at birth dropped by nearly a year between 2020 and 2021 — and by more than

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN A warm cup of tea in your favorite mug can seem to heal the soul — and a new study finds it may be good for your body, too. Drinking two or more cups of black tea a day is associated with lower risk of death from all causes, according to

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The pace of new monkeypox cases reported in some major cities — and in the US overall — has started to slow recently, but experts say it’s too early to know if the trend will last. On Friday, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that