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By Carma Hassan and Brenda Goodman, CNN Moderna submitted its application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of its updated Covid-19 vaccine booster for use in people age 18 and older, the company said in a news release on Tuesday. The move came one day after Pfizer and BioNTech submitted

By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Preventive Services Task Force on Tuesday announced its latest guidelines on the use of statins to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. The recommendations are virtually unchanged from prior guidance but are now supported by additional research, the group said. The recommendations are a little more conservative than

By Naomi Thomas, CNN Advanced-stage cervical cancer is rising in the United States among White and Black women, according to a new study in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer. “This specific study was born out of wanting to take a deeper dive into the drivers behind cervical cancer,” said Dr. Alex Francoeur, a fourth-year

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Up for a little noninvasive brain stimulation to boost your aging memory for that next big project, work meeting or family get-together? One day science may be able to offer such treatments, new research suggests. Sending electrical currents into two parts of the brain known for storing and recalling information modestly

By Amanda Sealy, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted their application to the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their bivalent Covid-19 vaccine for use in people age 12 and older, the companies said in a statement on Monday. This updated formulation will combine the original vaccine with one that targets

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Health This fall, the health of the nation will depend in large part on vaccines. Health officials are banking on vaccinations to contain monkeypox and polio before those become standing threats in the United States. They’re counting on updated boosters to restore waning immunity against Covid-19. With influenza expected back in

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Accepting your body as it is and stopping all the dieting may sound great, but would doing so hurt your health? Advertisements, pop culture and even doctors can talk about health and weight as if they are one and the same: smaller bodies are healthier, and larger bodies must be unhealthy.

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN One organ in a woman’s body ages more than twice as fast as all other tissues, wreaking havoc with both fertility and long-term health. “Ovaries are very strange, very odd in terms of the rest of the human body. We can think about them like an accelerated model for human aging,”

By Andrea Kane, CNN My mother never got to buy shoes. At least not in that obsessive, stereotypically female way we see in shows like Sex and the City. She contracted polio in her native Argentina in 1941 when she was two years old, more than a decade before the polio vaccine was invented by