Like many new parents, René Marsh felt her life was "transformed" in March of 2019 when her newborn son Blake was handed to her by a nurse."It really is like someone hands you your heart," said Marsh, who is a…
Within the first several weeks of any school year, I receive dozens of calls from parents concerned about their increasingly frayed connection to their children.Conflict about school and homework, laziness and screen time dominates relationships between parents and their kids…
Children now represent more than a quarter -- or 26.8% -- of weekly Covid-19 cases nationwide, according to data released Tuesday from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).The update comes as schools across the US have been in session or…
Can this year just stop already? It's a thought ricocheting around the world as we cope with Covid-19, quarantine, wildfires and hurricanes.Now it can.Rosh Hashanah, which marks the Jewish New Year, begins Monday night. Even if you're not Jewish, it's…
One-year-old Israeli twin girls, who were born joined back-to-back at the head, have been separated after a rare and complicated surgery.The sisters, whose names were not provided, underwent a 12-hour operation at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel last week.The…
As she held up her cell phone to take back-to-school selfies with the new school resource officers last week, the excitement of the first day swept through Liz Pray just as it had in previous years. But Pray, a school…
(CNN) — More than a third of Americans find their job unsatisfactory, according to an annual survey by the Conference Board research group. From 2000 to 2016, the nation had been hovering around the halfway mark of job dissatisfaction. That…
Our work-life balance has, to borrow a term we all learned in the 2020 Olympics, been feeling "the twisties" during the pandemic. So many of us had to adapt to working from home, adjustments and accommodations, mass layoffs, career pivots…
Dr. Anthony Fauci says there's an important step adults can take to protect children who are too young to be vaccinated against Covid-19."The way you protect children who, because of their age, cannot get vaccinated yet is to surround the…
Human health is already being harmed by the climate crisis, and the impacts could become catastrophic and irreversible unless governments do much more to address global warming, the editors of more than 230 medical journals said in a joint editorial…
Booster doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine may be delayed from rolling out the week of September 20 as planned, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday.Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, said that while the administration's plan had been to roll…
With the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country this summer, health care workers and officials are finding themselves returning to a crisis experienced last year when hospitals struggled to handle an influx of patients.In the Southeast,…
A Florida teen who spent 11 days on a ventilator after she contracted Covid-19 has a message for her peers and others."My message, technically is: If you're eligible to get the vaccine, please do," Paulina Velasquez told CNN from her…
Health experts are reinforcing the point that full vaccination remains highly effective against severe illness and death caused by Covid-19 as federal regulators consider the possibility of authorizing a third dose in the upcoming weeks."What's the goal of this vaccine?…
One of the greatest success stories of the Covid-19 crisis has hit an alarming bump in the road.The initial stages of the vaccine rollout earlier this year in countries such as Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States provided…
Starting or staying on the gold medal-winning Mediterranean diet? Then you'll need a shopping resource you can use to stock your pantry with Mediterranean meal essentials -- and continue to use on a weekly basis to restock and purchase fresh,…
More children went to the hospital and emergency room in states with lower vaccination rates, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Children have largely been spared the worst of Covid-19 -- hospitalizations and…
We're all trying to make healthier choices, but when it comes to fish, is one type truly better than another? Nutritionally, there's no wrong choice when it comes to seafood as a food group."As an animal source, it has one…
Kids are heading back into the classroom for yet another pandemic school year, but this time with the more contagious Delta variant getting more people sick. Navigating school safely will be trickier than ever."Everyone keeps reflecting back on last year…
With the latest Covid-19 surge upending American life yet again, an official rollout of booster doses could begin within weeks, pending FDA authorization. And it's likely that three doses of the vaccine are needed for full protection, Dr. Anthony Fauci…
