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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Need another reason to prioritize your sleep? Not spending enough time in the two deep stages of sleep — slow-wave and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — may hasten the deterioration of parts of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a new study found. Deficits in slow-wave and

By Kate Bolduan, Matthew Reynard, and Raya Tarawneh (CNN) — “I was asked to give an update of myself for this documentary, and I wanted to throw up,” Crystal Quigley told CNN. In a letter dated March 9, Quigley, 39, said she had been sober for two years before relapsing on illicit fentanyl. Her anguish

CNN By Kate Bolduan, Matthew Reynard, and Raya Tarawneh (CNN) — “I was asked to give an update of myself for this documentary, and I wanted to throw up,” Crystal Quigley told CNN. In a letter dated March 9, Quigley, 39, said she had been sober for two years before relapsing on illicit fentanyl. Her

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Max Genecov is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a dad, and a stuffed animal owner. “I’ve always had them growing up, I had a big fantasy life with them (as a child),” he said. “I just think that they’re nice things you have.”

By Ben Tinker, CNN (CNN) — “Kids! Are one of you taking my lorazepams?” Victoria Ratliff (played by Parker Posey) asks her children in a scene from this season’s “The White Lotus.” “I just had my prescription filled, and I can tell some are missing,” she says. By this point in the series, the viewer

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When health workers stopped visiting her home in Pakistan to administer tuberculosis medication, Ratna Jamni began dragging herself to a clinic “step by painful step, when even standing feels impossible.” The 40-year-old had been receiving treatment and mental health support for months at home after contracting drug-resistant TB, but

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — What West Virginia lawmaker Adam Burkhammer “once thought was a conspiracy theory became reality” to him recently. The Republican state delegate had been witnessing “the adverse effects that synthetic dyes were having on my son’s behavior, and the improvement of focus and attention” when he removed foods with the

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — A growing body of evidence has increasingly linked diet sodas and other no- or low-calorie foods with weight gain — so much so that the World Health Organization issued an advisory in May 2023 saying not to use sugar substitutes for weight loss. “Replacing free sugars with non-sugar sweeteners

By Nora Gaul, John Bonifield and Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The head of the US Food and Drug Administration department responsible for assuring the safety and effectiveness of vaccines has resigned, according to a resignation letter obtained by CNN. Dr. Peter Marks, director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, was given

By Neha Mukherjee and Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — A measles outbreak spanning Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma reached at least 453 cases Friday and might be linked to cases in other states and across borders. Texas has reported 400 outbreak-associated cases, New Mexico reported 44, and Oklahoma reported nine – seven confirmed and two

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — You’re scrolling through your phone when you stumble upon the next viral trend: an influencer claiming that following their incredibly strict diet will help you achieve their jaw-dropping physique. Or you see a fresh-faced runner swearing you can run a marathon without any training — just like they did.

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — On March 10, Dr. Nisha Acharya got a letter from the National Institutes of Health terminating her grant to study the safety and effectiveness of a vaccine recommended for all adults 50 and older in the US. The grant was canceled after a change in NIH policy to not

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — It’s time to do your taxes, so you sit down at the computer to knock them out, but then you have to text your partner to get details about your mortgage interest. That text turns into a quick check of your email, a few scrolls through social media, and

CNN By Meg Tirrell, Tami Luhby, Brenda Goodman and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it is cutting 10,000 full-time employees across health agencies, the department told CNN. This comes on top of 10,000 employees who’ve left voluntarily, shrinking the workforce from about 82,000 full-time

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Spring is in the air, but that’s not stopping fitness enthusiasts from wanting to crank up the heat — at least in the studio. No matter the temperature outside, heated yoga, Pilates or spin classes are drawing in those eager to sweat it out. These heated workouts are everywhere,

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Is my doctor using artificial intelligence to diagnose me during our appointment? Is he recording our conversation to create an AI summary of our visit? The use of AI health care is still new enough that many people may not know what to make of it. Most Americans expressed

By Meg Tirrell, Tami Luhby, Brenda Goodman and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it is cutting 10,000 full-time employees across health agencies, the department told CNN. This comes on top of 10,000 employees who’ve left voluntarily, shrinking the workforce from about 82,000 full-time employees

By Neha Mukherjee, CNN (CNN) — Doctors treating people hospitalized as part of a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico have also found themselves facing another problem: vitamin A toxicity. At Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, near the outbreak’s epicenter, several patients have been found to have abnormal liver function on routine lab tests,

By Neha Mukherjee and Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-three measles cases have been reported in Kansas, and the state health department said they could be linked to an ongoing outbreak that has infected at least 379 people across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. “The confirmed cases in Kansas have a possible link to the

By Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN (CNN) — I’m writing this article at 2 a.m. Not because I suffer from insomnia, but because I just woke up to pee. Now, like so many others, I can’t fall back asleep. Instead of scrolling aimlessly through social media, I figured — why not write about my experience? I’m