By Katherine Dillinger, CNN The US Department of Health and Human Services said Friday that it does not plan to renew the public health emergency declaration for mpox. “Over the next 60 days we will focus on supporting jurisdictions and the Department to ensure the expiration of the PHE will not hinder response efforts,” the
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Nearly 20,000 people in the United States were admitted to the hospital for flu last week, almost double the number of admissions from the week before, according to data updated Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC estimates that there have been at least 8.7 million
Continue Reading By Samantha Beech, CNN A former co-owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy was sentenced Thursday for what authorities said was his role in a deadly, multistate fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012. Gregory Conigliaro, 57, was sentenced in the US District Court in Boston to one year in prison and one year of supervised release after
Continue Reading By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN When the temperature drops and snow begins to fall, many people can’t wait to hit the slopes or ice rink. Winter fun is on their minds, not injury. Yet if you don’t thoughtfully prepare for your favored activity, it’s easy to have a mishap. Nearly 200,000 people were injured in
Continue Reading By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Some people suffering pain from cancer and other chronic diseases turn to marijuana to ease their suffering, but much of that relief may come from simply believing weed will help, a new study found. In research, the tendency to have positive expectations that a dummy pill, procedure or treatment will help
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN The brains of US teens have physically changed during the Covid-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says. The young study participants also reported more severe symptoms of anxiety, depression and what scientists call internalized problems — meaning feelings of sadness, low self-esteem and fear and trouble regulating their
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN The brains of US teens have physically changed during the Covid-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says. The young study participants also reported more severe symptoms of anxiety, depression and what scientists call internalized problems — meaning feelings of sadness, low self-esteem and fear and trouble regulating their
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN An experimental HIV vaccine has been found to induce broadly neutralizing antibody precursors among a small group of volunteers in a Phase 1 study. The findings suggest that a two-dose regimen of the vaccine, given eight weeks apart, can elicit immune responses against the human immunodeficiency virus. The clinical trial results,
Continue Reading By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Holiday stress. Work problems. Money concerns. Family issues — the worries that can keep you up at night are infinite. Develop a sleep debt from those worries, and you’ll pay a price in your ability to think, plan and manage your emotions. “Sleep debt, also called a sleep deficit, is the
Continue Reading By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN On World AIDS Day, the Biden administration renewed its focus on ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030, releasing a new five-year strategy for the United States’ global response. The administration said Thursday it is accelerating its response to HIV/AIDS with new global goals including reaching key treatment targets across ages, genders
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN An experimental HIV vaccine has been found to induce broadly neutralizing antibody precursors among a small group of volunteers in a Phase 1 study. The findings suggest that a two-dose regimen of the vaccine, given eight weeks apart, can elicit immune responses against the human immunodeficiency virus. The clinical trial results,
Continue Reading By Raenu Charles, CNN Organ donations and transplantations increase during major US motorcycle rallies due to crashes, according to a new study, signaling a need for increased safety measures. The researchers analyzed more than 10,000 organ donations and 35,000 transplantations from 2005 to 2021. In regions near where motorcycle rallies were held, there were 21%
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN If you’re often running late to work because you can’t find your keys or tensing at the sight of kitchen clutter, you might feel the need to get organized. But what if you don’t know where to start? Maybe you think your pantry would have to look Pinterest-worthy for the effort
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN A sniffle, a sneeze or a cough can set off alarm bells these days for families with young children. Mother of two Vickie Leon said her kids, ages 4 and 2, can sometimes go a month or two without bringing anything back from day care. Then there are times when it
Continue Reading By Carma Hassan, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration is considering shifting its blood donation policy away from blanket assessments toward questionnaires that focus more on individual risk, it said Wednesday. The agency is using data from a donor eligibility study and other blood surveillance information that “will likely support a policy transition to
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Deaths related to drug misuse and alcohol abuse appear to be on the rise among older adults in the United States, similar to the recent increases seen among younger adults, according to two new reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rates of deaths from drug overdoses among
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Early research suggests a promising use of artificial intelligence to predict the 10-year risk of death from a heart attack or stroke from a single chest X-ray. The preliminary findings were presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. The research is in the final draft
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The experimental drug lecanemab shows “potential” as an Alzheimer’s disease treatment, according to new Phase 3 trial results, but the findings raise some safety concerns because of its association with certain serious adverse events. Lecanemab has become one of the first experimental dementia drugs to appear to slow the progression of
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN A common treatment for some arthritis pain might actually be making the condition worse, according to two new studies. “Knee osteoarthritis is one of the most chronic, degenerative and progressive conditions, with an estimated incidence of 800,000 patients each year in the US alone,” said lead author of one of the
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Firearm deaths surged in the US during the Covid-19 pandemic, killing a record number of people in 2021. But as America’s gun epidemic gets worse, its burden is not equal. A new study published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open analyzed firearm deaths over the past three decades — a total of
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