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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Puckering, puffing, scrunching and stretching your face may look silly, but in some spaces, it’s the serious business of face yoga.

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Health officials in the UK are investigating reports of dozens of people suffering from a potentially life-threatening condition following Botox procedures in northeastern England, as well as allegations of the illegal sale of Botox-like products. The local trust of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) in the county of

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — As summer temperatures rise and emergency department visits related to extreme heat top 100,000 Americans a year, what should people know about the dangers of heatstroke? What are the symptoms, and how can others recognize if someone needs help? What are other types of illnesses associated with extreme heat?

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a discussion and vote on thimerosal in flu vaccines, a preservative tied to debunked claims from decades ago of links to autism. The

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth will no longer be operation starting July 17, according to a statement from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The administration said in its statement that everyone who

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Ready-to-eat chicken fettuccine Alfredo meals sold at Walmart and Kroger have been recalled after a listeria outbreak that has led to 17 illnesses including three deaths and one fetal loss. US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is investigating the outbreak, which has sickened people in 13

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Using marijuana doubles the risk of dying from heart disease, according to a new analysis of pooled medical data involving 200 million people mostly between the ages of 19 and 59. “What was particularly striking was that the concerned patients hospitalized for these disorders were young (and thus, not

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Seventeen vaccine experts who were dismissed from a federal advisory panel last week say they are worried that recent moves by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will destabilize vaccine policy in the US and jeopardize access to lifesaving immunizations. The experts sat on the

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Mothers bear much of the burden for a child’s healthy development, from pregnancy through their teen years. But a large, new study adds to the growing body of evidence saying fathers, too, are responsible for the types of development that help children grow physically, emotionally and cognitively. Fathers’ mental

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Ideals of manhood for many people have changed. In previous generations, being a man meant you provided for your family financially, remained stoic and independent, and rejected parts of yourself with feelings and needs, said Dr. Daniel Singley, a licensed psychologist and founder of the Center for Men’s Excellence

CNN By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Mothers bear much of the burden for a child’s healthy development, from pregnancy through their teen years. But a large, new study adds to the growing body of evidence saying fathers, too, are responsible for the types of development that help children grow physically, emotionally and cognitively. Fathers’

By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — The worst day of Brad Bailey’s life was March 5, 2020: the day his son, Rhoan, was stillborn at 39 weeks old. His wife, Erica Bailey, had experienced a routine pregnancy until that day. No issues, no extra monitoring necessary. That morning, however, something was awry. The baby had

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Prenatal exposure to a class of dangerous, widely used chemicals could be linked to your child having high blood pressure as

By Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — Just two days after retiring the entirety of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed several prominent critics of the government’s Covid-19 response to that committee. He announced eight new members of the

By Brenda Goodman, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — The library at Starms Discovery Learning Center has cheerful peach and blue walls, and squat wooden shelves filled with books wrapped in thick plastic jackets to protect them from the touches and smudges of many small hands. On Monday, the library became a place to exchange other stories,

By Meg Tirrell, Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services is reinstating more than 450 employees at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were fired as part of a massive reorganization in April, including workers focused on HIV and childhood lead exposure. More than 200 employees

CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — More than 90% of samples of a dozen fruits and vegetables tested positive for potentially harmful pesticide residues, according to the 2025 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Dubbed the “Dirty Dozen,” the list is compiled from the latest government testing data on nonorganic produce by the Environmental

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — More than 90% of samples of a dozen fruits and vegetables tested positive for potentially harmful pesticide residues, according to the 2025 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Dubbed the “Dirty Dozen,” the list is compiled from the latest government testing data on nonorganic produce by the Environmental Working

By Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya faced critical questions from both Republican and Democratic senators Tuesday as he sought to defend the Trump administration’s sweeping plans to reorganize the agency and slash budgets for medical research. Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, swiftly criticized

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The United States could soon have another tool in the fight against respiratory syncytial virus, an illness that’s the No. 1 cause of hospitalization in infants. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new monoclonal antibody to help prevent infection, according to an announcement late Monday from

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — After seven years as a retail associate at a big-box store in Virginia, Alicia Costello still did not have a consistent schedule week to week, and requesting paid time off was a hassle. For a while, Costello got by — until she became pregnant with her first child. Doctors’

By Sarah Owermohle and Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday dismissed an expert panel of vaccine advisers that has historically guided the federal government’s vaccine recommendations, saying the group is “plagued with conflicts of interest.” The entirety of the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization

By Karla Walsh, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter. Our limited newsletter series guides you on how to minimize your personal role in the climate crisis — and reduce your eco-anxiety. While testing recipes for her plant-based blog, PlantYou, Carleigh Bodrug realized she was wasting more food — and money

By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — In October 2020, two months before Covid-19 vaccines would become available in the US, Stanford health policy professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and two colleagues published an open letter calling for a contrarian approach to managing the risks of the pandemic: protecting the most vulnerable while allowing others largely to