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By Carma Hassan, CNN All US-bound airline passengers who have been in Uganda in the 21 days before their arrival will be routed to one of five US airports for enhanced Ebola screening, the US Embassy in Uganda said Thursday. Starting at 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday, passengers will be routed to New York’s JFK airport;

By Naomi Thomas, CNN US firearm homicide and suicide rates each increased by more than 8% from 2020 to 2021, according to data published Thursday in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC researchers estimated that there were over 20,000 firearm homicides and over 26,000 firearm suicides in

By Katherine Dillinger, CNN About 2.55 million middle and high school students in the US currently use e-cigarettes, researchers say, based on responses to a survey conducted earlier this year. Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration looked at responses from the 2022 National Youth

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The pandemic has been tough, but the return to in-person schooling has also been emotionally difficult for Mary Norris’ 12-year-old daughter. Norris says her daughter was bullied relentlessly at the school she attended last year in Fresno, California, near where her father lives. So she transferred to a school in Madera,

By Brenda Goodman, CNN It’s been 100 days since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, undoing constitutional protections for abortion access. Many states immediately banned the procedure. A new survey by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health nonprofit, shows how consequential that June 24 decision has been. The survey found that among 15 states

By Nadia Kounang, CNN According to a source familiar with discussions between the NFL and the NFL Players Association over changes to the league’s concussion policy, updates to the concussion protocol could come as early as Thursday. “The urgency on getting it done before tomorrow is that we’ll have new protocols heading into Thursday night’s

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN An overwhelming majority of people in the United States think the country is experiencing a mental health crisis, according to a new survey from CNN in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation. Nine out of 10 adults said ​they believed that there’s a mental health crisis in the US today. Asked

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN The CNN/KFF Mental Health Survey is a joint project of CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation designed to assess Americans’ outlook on mental health and mental health care in the US today. Surveys were conducted by SSRS from July 28 through August 9, 2022, among a random national

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN We all know that eating later in the day isn’t good for our waistlines, but why? A new study weighed in on that question by comparing people who ate the same foods — but at different times in the day. “Does the time that we eat matter when everything else is

By Brenda Goodman, CNN The experimental Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab made big news last week when the companies testing it released trial results that showed the drug met its goals, making it one of the first dementia drugs to return positive results. In a randomized, placebo-controlled study of nearly 1,800 people who were in the early

By Casey Barber, CNN If the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a taco is that crispy corn shell filled with seasoned ground beef, strings of bright yellow cheese and shredded lettuce, then it’s time to think beyond the emoji. October 4 is National Taco Day, but any day in October