By Katherine Dillinger, CNN A Los Angeles County resident’s death has been attributed to monkeypox, the county Department of Public Health said Monday, the first known death from the virus in the US. The department and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the link and said the person had a severely weakened
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, Holly Yan and Amanda Sealy, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a Nebraska child who died after swimming was infected with the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri, an epidemiologist for the state, Dr. Matthew Donahue, told CNN. The amoeba is typically found in freshwater lakes and rivers. The
Continue Reading By Dana Santas, CNN Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt — and sometimes also the leg. That’s because the pain travels along the sciatic nerves, the longest nerves in your body. Each sciatic nerve runs bilaterally from the base of your spine through the
Continue Reading By Dana Santas, CNN Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt — and sometimes also the leg. That’s because the pain travels along the sciatic nerves, the longest nerves in your body. Each sciatic nerve runs bilaterally from the base of your spine through the
Continue Reading By Dana Santas, CNN Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt — and sometimes also the leg. That’s because the pain travels along the sciatic nerves, the longest nerves in your body. Each sciatic nerve runs bilaterally from the base of your spine through the
Continue Reading By Dana Santas, CNN Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt — and sometimes also the leg. That’s because the pain travels along the sciatic nerves, the longest nerves in your body. Each sciatic nerve runs bilaterally from the base of your spine through the
Continue Reading By Naomi Thomas, CNN People who increased the amount of alcohol they drank also had an increased risk of cancer, according to the results of a large study in Korea published on Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. The study found that people who increased the amount they drank had a higher risk of all cancers,
Continue Reading By Matt Villano, CNN Dr. Stuart Brown is an expert in having fun. For more than 60 years, the 89-year-old psychiatrist and clinical researcher has studied the importance of play — in young and adult humans, as well as animals of all kinds. Play is important for all of us on an instinctual level, his
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN The Biden administration announced new plans Thursday that should make it a lot easier for millions of kids to get access to mental and physical health services at school. The announcement specifically impacts the tens of millions of children who get their health care through Medicaid, but all school age children
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Globally, nearly half of deaths due to cancer can be attributable to preventable risk factors, including the three leading risks of: smoking, drinking too much alcohol or having a high body mass index, a new paper suggests. The research, published Thursday in the journal The Lancet, finds that 44.4% of all
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Adults across the United States are being diagnosed with colon and rectal cancers at younger ages, and now 1 in 5 new cases are among those in their early 50s or younger, according to the American Cancer Society’s latest colorectal cancer report. The report says that the proportion of colorectal cancer
Continue Reading By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Getting sick from Covid-19 is bad enough. What if you’re one of the unlucky people who experience what is called long Covid? It’s a medley of symptoms that can occur months — and even years — after recovering from Covid, according to a new study of more 1 million people from
Continue Reading By John Duffy, CNN In the first inning of a Little League Southwest Region championship game in Waco, Texas, last week, pitcher Kaiden Shelton threw a ball high and fast, hitting 12-year-old batter Isaiah Jarvis in the head so hard it knocked his helmet off. After he recovered briefly, Isaiah took first base. But he
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN Boston Children’s Hospital, which calls itself “home to the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program in the United States,” says it has faced a “large volume” of threats of violence for offering that kind of care. The hospital said in an emailed statement Wednesday that its clinicians and staff have
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most monkeypox cases in the current outbreak have been linked to sexual activity, but research published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers new insight into other ways it may be spreading. A man noticed his first lesion and subsequently developed a rash about two weeks after
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most monkeypox cases in the current outbreak have been linked to sexual activity, but research published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers new insight into other ways it may be spreading. A man noticed his first lesion and subsequently developed a rash about two weeks after
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN On second thought, maybe don’t pass the salt. Adding salt to your meal at the table is associated with a lower life span and a higher risk for early death, according to a new study. The study looked at more than 500,000 people in the UK Biobank who responded to a
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman Big changes are coming to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary as the nation’s lead public health agency. CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky met with senior leadership at the agency this morning to lay out her plans for overhauling how the agency works.
Continue Reading By Katia Hetter, CNN Last week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced key changes to its nationwide Covid-19 guidelines. Among them was the end of required quarantine after someone is exposed to a close contact with the coronavirus. The CDC also revised isolation guidance for people infected with Covid-19. With the required
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN Two human cases of West Nile virus have been reported in New York as the virus has been detected in a record number of mosquitoes in the city, health officials said Tuesday. Across the city’s five boroughs, 1,068 mosquito pools have tested positive for the virus, according to the New York
Continue Reading