Category: Health

(CNN)When the pandemic hit, couples found themselves worrying about getting sick, losing income, teaching their children at home while working full time (or worrying full time about sending them to school). It hardly makes a perfect recipe for sex. The stress has been too much for one Texas couple in their mid-40s with two children,…

(CNN)While many colleges and universities are offering classes online, that hasn’t necessarily stopped students from gathering. And now some college towns are grappling with outbreaks of Covid-19 as the start of the fall semester complicates local responses to the pandemic. “We are urging students to understand the imperative role that they play in stopping this…

By Dana Santas, CNNUpdated 2:52 PM ET, Sat September 12, 2020Join Dana Santas for a seven-part series to learn how to reboot your workout routine — and stick with it. Here’s Part I. (CNN)After time off from exercising, it’s understandable if you’re having a hard time getting motivated. You may even feel a bit bad,…

(CNN)The AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial, halted last week after an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers, will resume, the University of Oxford announced Saturday.The university, which is developing the vaccine with AstraZeneca, did not say when the trial would resume. AstraZeneca said the trial will only resume in the United Kingdom, adding that it’s…

(CNN)Growing up with “Sesame Street” in the early 1980s, I found pieces of myself in Cookie Monster’s sweet tooth, Big Bird’s gentleness and in Grover, who was outgoing and always willing to help others, even though he made a lot of hilarious mistakes. There was even a lady named Maria who was Puerto Rican, just…

(CNN)Vaccine clinical trials are notoriously difficult to conduct.They involve thousands, or even tens of thousands, of participants, and typically go on for years. The chances that one or more of these study volunteers will develop a health issue is quite high.Most of the time, that health problem is not related to the vaccine being investigated,…

(CNN)Primary school students in China experienced more depressive symptoms and made more suicide attempts after schools closed for the pandemic, a new study found.When Covid-19 hit China in January, the Ministry of Education postponed the start of spring semester to late April. That closure separated children from their friends and their broader community network, and…

(CNN)An influential model is predicting a catastrophic winter with a significant rise in coronavirus deaths.A possible scenario sees 415,090 Covid-19 deaths by January, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington says in its latest forecast. The worst-case scenario is 600,000 deaths by January 1.”When we look ahead into the…

Wildfires burning in the WestFirefighter Abraham Garcia signals a water truck in Angwin, California, on Tuesday, September 29. Wildfires burning in the WestKevin Conant looks down at hundreds of metal rings left from burned wine barrels at his business after it was engulfed by fire in Santa Rosa, California, on Wednesday, September 30. Wildfires burning…

(CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci said it could be the end of 2021 before life gets back to how it was before Covid-19.”If you’re talking about getting back to a degree of normality which resembles where we were prior to Covid, it’s going to be well into 2021, maybe even towards the end of 2021,” Fauci said…