Exercise may protect your brain even if you have signs of dementia, study finds
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Exercise is good for you. Breaking a sweat has been shown to improve nearly every organ in the body, fight nearly every…
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How to manage mindless snacking from your pandemic home office
By Lisa Drayer, CNN The new year brings with it some old circumstances: working from home, self- isolating again, and having close access to food…
Continue ReadingNearly a quarter of hospitals are reporting a critical staff shortage as Omicron drives a rise in Covid-19 cases
CNN, WCBS, WABC, WGCL, DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HE, GETTY IMAGES, FDA By Dakin Andone and Susannah Cullinane, CNN About 24% of US…
Continue ReadingHow our ancestors used to sleep can help the sleep-deprived today
By Katie Hunt, CNN Like many people, historian A. Roger Ekirch thought that sleep was a biological constant — that eight hours of rest a night…
Continue Reading5 reasons you should not deliberately catch Omicron to ‘get it over with’
CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN The question hung in the air like a bad odor, silencing the small group of fully vaccinated and boosted friends and family…
Continue ReadingNearly a quarter of hospitals are reporting a critical staff shortage as Omicron drives a rise in Covid-19 cases
By Dakin Andone and Susannah Cullinane, CNN About 24% of US hospitals are reporting a “critical staffing shortage,” according to data…
Continue ReadingDespite my health challenges, I choose to heal
By Eryn Mathewson, CNN The last 12 months have been weird for me. I’m a pretty healthy 39-year-old marathon runner. And yet I had a heart…
Continue ReadingStates are scrambling to keep up with an increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations and the demand for testing
By Travis Caldwell, CNN As a Covid-19 testing shortage compounds a burgeoning crisis of new hospitalizations, more states are racing to help…
Continue ReadingFDA warns against using throat swabs for home Covid-19 tests
By Jamie Gumbrecht, Naomi Thomas and Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration is cautioning against using self-collected throat swabs…
Continue Reading‘Mild’ Covid-19 doesn’t always feel that way
By Jen Christensen, CNN Many people are hearing from their doctors that they have a “mild” Covid-19 infection amid a surge of the highly…
Continue ReadingWhy dancing may be the one New Year’s resolution you actually keep in 2022
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN As a professionally trained dancer for nearly 20 years, I’ve found that a combination of pirouettes and leaps across…
Continue ReadingWhat the US can expect next from the Covid surge, according to an expert
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The Omicron variant has sent cases of Covid-19 surging once again, and many businesses, workplaces and schools have…
Continue ReadingWith Omicron’s prevalence and testing in short supply, anyone with symptoms should assume they’re positive and isolate, doctor says
CNN By Travis Caldwell, CNN With Covid-19 tests hard to find in many parts of the country and the Omicron variant spreading rapidly, health experts…
Continue ReadingChild hospitalization rates hit record highs as Omicron variant becomes prevalent
By Travis Caldwell and Mallika Kallingal, CNN Covid-19 hospitalization rates among children are soaring in the United States, with an average of 4.3…
Continue ReadingCDC updates Covid-19 prevention guidance for K-12 schools
By John Bonifield, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance for Covid-19 prevention in schools offering…
Continue ReadingIf you caught Covid-19 over the holidays, here’s what you need to know
By Jen Christensen, CNN If you caught Covid-19 over the holidays — and with the highly contagious Omicron variant in circulation, record…
Continue ReadingStudy links Covid-19 vaccination to small increase in menstrual cycle length, but experts say it’s no cause for concern
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN After getting a dose of Covid-19 vaccine, women had an average menstrual cycle length of about one day longer than usual,…
Continue ReadingFormer Biden health advisers say the US needs to change its Covid-19 strategy to face a ‘new normal’
By Naomi Thomas, Virginia Langmaid and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Former health advisers to President Joe Biden say the US strategy for the Covid-19…
Continue ReadingDr. Sanjay Gupta: Coming out of Covid-19 isolation doesn’t have to be complicated
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent With more than a half-million Americans being officially diagnosed with Covid-19 every day, the…
Continue ReadingDogs can recognize different languages and nonsense words, study says
CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Wearing headsets, 18 subjects lay quietly while a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (fMRI) droned on around…
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