By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts have been adjusting to the challenges of sleeping in space for years — and the lessons learned from their zero gravity slumbers will ensure that one day the first crewed missions to Mars will have gotten enough rest before exploring the red planet. Rotating crews have spent an average of
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN As the US faces a near-record number of drug shortages, cancer treatments are among the hardest hit. There is an active shortage of about two dozen chemotherapy drugs, the fifth most of any drug category, according to data from the end of March from the University of Utah Drug Information Service.
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN In a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, lawmakers were highly critical of the US Food and Drug Administration’s handling of the infant formula shortage Thursday. The hearing of the US House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services was one of several Congress has held to better understand
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting the first known cases of an antifungal-resistant ringworm in the United States and urging providers to be on the lookout for such infections. The details of the cases were reported to the CDC in February and shared in a report published
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN During the Covid-19 pandemic, mental health-related visits to emergency departments rose sharply among children and adolescents. A new report published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows signs of improvement, but poor mental health remains a “substantial public health problem,” especially among teen girls. CDC researchers tracked
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht and Carma Hassan, CNN The World Health Organization declared on Thursday the mpox outbreak is no longer a global health emergency. In July 2022, WHO declared mpox, previously known as monkeypox, a public health emergency of international concern — “an extraordinary event” that constitutes a “public health risk to other States through
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday paved the way for more gay and bisexual men to donate blood by finalizing new risk-based recommendations for blood donation. Going forward, prospective donors will be asked the same set of questions regardless of their sex or sexual orientation. Before the FDA began taking
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN A new report says there was a “sharp increase” in violence at abortion clinics in 2022, the year when Roe v. Wade was overturned, ending the federal right to an abortion. A disproportionate increase occurred in states that protect abortion rights, according to the National Abortion Federation, a professional association for
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Adults who have obstructive sleep apnea have up to an 75% increased risk, on average, of developing long Covid after a SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with people without sleep apnea, a new study found. Women with obstructive sleep apnea had up to an 89% increased risk, while men had a 59% higher
Continue ReadingCNN, CDC, THE WHITE HOUSE By Katia Hetter, CNN The national public health emergency around Covid-19 officially ends in the United States on Thursday, May 11, more than three years after it was first declared. This comes as the World Health Organization announced last week that Covid-19 no longer constitutes a global health emergency. What
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN The national public health emergency around Covid-19 officially ends in the United States on Thursday, May 11, more than three years after it was first declared. This comes as the World Health Organization announced last week that Covid-19 no longer constitutes a global health emergency. What does all this mean about
Continue ReadingCNN By Katherine Dillinger, CNN A “peanut patch” showed promising results in a late-phase clinical trial in toddlers with peanut allergies, according to a new study. Researchers from the French biopharmaceutical firm DBV Technologies and institutions around the world conducted randomized double-blind trial of the Viaskin Peanut patch in children ages 1 through 3 years
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger, CNN A “peanut patch” showed promising results in a late-phase clinical trial in toddlers with peanut allergies, according to a new study. Researchers from the French biopharmaceutical firm DBV Technologies and institutions around the world conducted randomized double-blind trial of the Viaskin Peanut patch in children ages 1 through 3 years old
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN When Barbara Brigham was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2020, the odds were not in her favor. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies, fatal in 88% of patients. It is also one of the hardest to treat. Tumors can be surgically removed, but they come back within
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Uncontrolled sleep apnea — a disorder in which people stop breathing for 10 seconds or more at a time multiple times a night — may harm future brain health, a new study found. It’s estimated 936 million adults worldwide between the ages of 30 and 69 may suffer from sleep apnea,
Continue ReadingCNN By Carma Hassan, CNN Advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in support of making the birth-control pill Opill available over-the-counter, saying the benefits outweigh the risks. Two FDA advisory panels agreed that people would use Opill safely and effectively and said groups such as adolescents and those with
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, CNN Advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in support of making the birth-control pill Opill available over-the-counter, saying the benefits outweigh the risks. Two FDA advisory panels agreed that people would use Opill safely and effectively and said groups such as adolescents and those with limited
Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Cohen and Amanda Sealy, CNN When Caitlyn Pace moved from the United States to Hong Kong three years ago to take a teaching job, she loved the food, the sights and the birth control. She was was pleasantly surprised to find that in Hong Kong, she could get oral contraceptives at her
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists have pieced together a new draft of the human genome that better captures humanity’s genetic diversity. The new “pangenome” incorporates the DNA of 47 individuals from every continent except Antarctica and Oceania. The scientists involved say it will improve our ability to diagnose disease, discover new drugs and understand the
Continue ReadingCNN By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The Covid-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is no longer available in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All remaining doses expired last week, and the CDC directed providers to dispose of any that they had left over. About 19 million people in
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