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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Offering “thoughts and prayers” after a tragedy may sound insufficient, said Father Chris Collins, a Jesuit priest and vice president for mission at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey expressed a similar point of view on Wednesday after two children were killed

By Sarah Owermohle, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill is expected to serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter. O’Neill joined HHS in June after years as a Silicon

By Brenda Goodman, Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — Top officials who resigned their positions at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the ouster of the agency’s director were escorted out of the building Thursday morning, then celebrated and saluted by CDC staffers in the afternoon. Before the crowds gathered outside the Atlanta

By Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for 3.5 million deaths in 2021, according to the World Health Organization. It’s a common disease in the United States, affecting about 6% of US adults and ranking among the country’s top 10 causes

By Sarah Owermohle, Adam Cancryn, Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 31, has been removed from the position, the White House said Wednesday. Her departure was quickly followed by the resignation of several high-level

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — If you told me four years ago that I’d be living a sustainable life, I wouldn’t have known what that meant. With the planet getting warmer and more people viewing global warming as a serious threat, there is no better time to act than now. At least, that’s the

CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75 from progressing to type 2 diabetes, a new study found. “Our study shows that modest, sustained changes in diet and lifestyle could prevent millions

By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The latest results from a trial of a pill form popular GLP-1 medications offer enough information for the Eli Lilly to request global regulatory approval this year, the company said Tuesday. Lilly, which makes the injectable drugs Zepbound to treat obesity and Mounjaro and Trulicity to treat diabetes, is

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesperson from the US Department of Health and Human Services said. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maryland Department of Health are

By Ian Kerner, CNN (CNN) — Nearly every day I meet couples in long-term relationships who lament about missing the early days of great sex — when they couldn’t keep their hands off each other, when sex was new and exciting, bold and bawdy. “What happened?” they ask each other and me. “How do we

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Have you ever wanted to burn a man? In June 1986, the founders of the Burning Man project and nonprofit, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, built a wooden human effigy and set it on fire on San Francisco’s Baker Beach as a symbolic act of letting go of their

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The Mississippi health department declared a public health emergency Thursday over rising infant mortality rates in the state. There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in 2024, the highest rate in more than a decade, according to a news release from the state health department. More

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on Friday reaffirmed support for Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy, becoming the second major professional medical association to break from current US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations this week. “While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently removed its

KTVN By Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN) — A Lake Tahoe area resident has tested positive for plague, California health officials said Tuesday. Officials said they believed the resident was infected after being bitten by an infected flea while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area. The person is recovering at home and under the care

By Nadia Kounang, CNN (CNN) — A Lake Tahoe area resident has tested positive for plague, California health officials said Tuesday. Officials said they believed the resident was infected after being bitten by an infected flea while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area. The person is recovering at home and under the care of

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Sarah J. Maas, Freida McFadden and Emily Henry –– can these popular authors join forces and save the day against a dangerous decline in reading for enjoyment? Daily reading for pleasure has plummeted 40% over the past 20 years, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal