If you're scheduling an appointment for a vaccination — whether for Covid-19, the flu or for travel to another country — make sure you're getting a long, restful night's slumber before you head to the doctor.Sleeping less than six hours…
Each year, thousands of babies die suddenly and unexpectedly, and more than 3,300 young lives were lost in 2020. Rates remained stubbornly high in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, even as overall infant mortality dropped to a record…
Are you ready to move your clocks forward by an hour? That's right — for most people in the United States, it's time to "spring forward" into Daylight Saving Time."For whatever reason, Daylight Saving Time always just creeps up on…
Most men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer can delay or avoid harsh treatments without harming their chances of survival, according to new results from a long-running study in the United Kingdom.Men in the study who partnered with their doctors…
It's easy to have a sense of gratitude when things are going your way or when holidays, like Thanksgiving, dictate it. But just as showing love shouldn't be reserved only for good times and special occasions like anniversaries, being grateful…
The Biden administration is monitoring what experts say is the deadliest outbreak of bird flu that the US has ever seen, and officials are considering a "range of options" on how to respond.The outbreak is not currently considered a serious…
Is the internet — and all that goes along with it: the screens, the technology, the apps — good or bad?That's been the question churning in the undercurrent of this season of CNN's Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The…
The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new nasal spray as a rapid treatment for migraine pain in adults.The nasal spray zavegepant, sold as Zavzpret, may relieve pain and other bothersome migraine symptoms as soon as 15 minutes after…
A new recommendation from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says all adults should be screened at least once in their lifetime for hepatitis B, an illness that's linked to liver disease and cancer.The agency estimates 580,000 to…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the 89-year-old California Democrat, recently announced she is out of the hospital and recovering at home from shingles, a painful viral inflammation in the skin's nerves that causes a blistering rash lasting for two to four weeks.…
The millions of Norway rats that live alongside New Yorkers are among the animals that can catch the virus that causes Covid-19, a new study says. However, reports of the virus spreading from any types of animals to humans remain…
Leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration have issued a new call to action to the infant formula industry to protect babies from illnesses caused by Salmonella and Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria."This letter is intended to assist industry in improving…
Leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration have issued a new call to action to the infant formula industry to protect babies from illnesses caused by Salmonella and Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria."This letter is intended to assist industry in improving…
Newly updated US Food and Drug Administration regulations will require mammography facilities to notify patients about the density of their breasts.Women with dense breasts are at higher risk for breast cancer, and dense tissue can make cancer harder to detect…
For most of her life, Victoria Gray, a 37-year-old mother of four from Mississippi, had experienced excruciating bouts of pain.Born with the blood disorder sickle cell disease, lengthy hospital stays and debilitating fatigue disrupted her childhood, forcing her to quit…
Are you ready to move your clocks forward by an hour this weekend? That's right — for most people in the United States, it's time to "spring forward" into Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, March 12, at 2:00 a.m."For whatever…
For expectant parents Shakina Rajendram and Kevin Nadarajah, the doctor's words were both definitive and devastating: Their twins were not "viable.""Even in that moment, as I was hearing those words come out of the doctor's mouth, I could still feel…
The world is off-pace for achieving the goal of reducing sodium intake 30% by 2025, according to a first-of-its-kind report from the World Health Organization.Although all 194 WHO member countries committed to the target set in 2013, only 5% have…
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is proposing new requirements for tobacco companies that would help prevent contamination of their products and set some standards for the way they make and package products so regulators and…
People who consumed foods from the plant-based Mediterranean and brain-focused MIND diets had fewer of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer's — sticky beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain — when autopsied, a new study found.The MIND diet is…
