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By Jen Christensen and Brenda Goodman, CNN About 18 million children under the age of 5 in the United States could soon be eligible to get a Covid-19 vaccine — but first, the child-sized shot must go through a rigorous authorization process that’s taking a different path than the Covid-19 vaccines that came before. On

By Katia Hetter, CNN A new subvariant of Omicron is spreading rapidly in some parts of the world. This spinoff from the original Omicron variant, called BA.2, has been found in at least 49 countries, including the United States. In some countries, like Denmark, BA.2 has already surpassed the original Omicron (BA.1) as the dominant

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Are dates, details and daily tasks feeling a bit fuzzy these past couple of years? It’s not just you, experts say. It’s not laziness or losing your sharpness — being in a global pandemic for the last two years is actually making it harder for our brains to make and recall

By Jacqueline Howard and Carma Hassan, CNN Two people with leukemia achieved remission over a decade after being infused with CAR-T cells, immune cells that had been modified in a lab, according to a new study. The findings suggest that this approach could be a long-term therapy for leukemia — and some researchers describe it

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A receding hairline. A bald spot spreading on the top of head. Painfully thin hair that is especially noticeable where the hair parts. Some 90% of men will suffer some form of hair loss during their lifetime, often leading to symptoms of low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. Studies on which nonsurgical

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Children younger than 5 in the United States could begin receiving Covid-19 vaccinations this month or next if the US Food and Drug Administration moves quickly to authorize the shot for this age group. Earlier this month, vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech initiated a request for the FDA to authorize their

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN More and more adults are taking over-the-counter melatonin to get to sleep, and some of them may be using it at dangerously high levels, a new study has found. While overall use among the United States adult population is still “relatively low,” the study does “document a significant many-fold increase in

Opinion by Dr. Tom Frieden Although it’s possible that deadly new coronavirus variants could emerge, I’m more optimistic today than at any point since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Here’s why. Despite growing pandemic fatigue and rough weeks ahead as the Omicron tsunami recedes, we’re better defended against Covid than ever. Vaccines and prior infection have

By Jen Christensen, CNN In one five-year period, teens and preteens in the US may have lost about 200,000 years of life to unintentional drug overdoses, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, may be one of the first to calculate lives lost to unintentional drug overdoses among young people.

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Novavax announced Monday that it has formally submitted a request for the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize its coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in the United States. The request is based on data that includes the results of two large clinical trials that demonstrated an overall efficacy of about

By Naomi Thomas and Ben Tinker, CNN Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine has received full approval from the US Food and Drug Administration, according to news releases from the FDA and Moderna. The vaccine, named Spikevax, is now approved for use in people ages 18 and older. It is not approved or authorized for use in younger