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Nearly 1 in 10 teens worldwide have used ineffective and potentially harmful weight-loss products, study estimates

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:13:18 +0000

(CNN) — Adolescents worldwide, especially girls, have used non-prescribed drugs, dietary supplements and other weight-loss products at a “high level,” according to a new analysis. Based on a review of dozens of studies over the past four decades, researchers estimate that about 9% of adolescents in the general population have used over-the-counter weight-loss products in

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Covid-19 vaccination rate is ‘lower than we’d like to see,’ CDC says

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:30:35 +0000

(CNN) — Respiratory virus season is ramping up across the United States, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that low vaccination rates are leaving many at risk. About 15% of adults and 5% of children have gotten the latest Covid-19 vaccine, according to CDC data through mid-November. “Here’s the bottom

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Covid-19 levels are rising but still relatively low in the US, surveillance data shows

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:29:21 +0000

(CNN) — Federal surveillance data suggests that Covid-19 levels are trending up in the United States, but key metrics remain well below most other points in the pandemic. Covid-19 hospitalizations have been on the rise since early July, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the first week of

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COVID-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in 2022, US CDC data shows

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Fri, 05 May 2023 11:09:46 +0000

(CNN) — Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States in 2022, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was the third leading cause of death in the first two years of the pandemic, but there were about half as many deaths from it in

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WHO warns new Omicron spinoff XBB.1.16 is ‘one to watch,’ but hasn’t shown to be more severe

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 03:19:41 +0000

(CNN) — The World Health Organization is monitoring the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, which has been identified in about two dozen countries. The subvariant has not been found in the United States, but it is similar to the XBB.1.5 subvariant that has been dominant in the country since January. XBB.1.16 has one additional mutation that, according to

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Mental health is driving more college students to consider dropping out, survey finds

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:59:06 +0000

(CNN) — Isabel, a 20-year-old undergraduate student, is no stranger to hard work. She graduated high school a year early and spent most of 2021 keeping up with three jobs. But when she started college that fall, she felt like she was “sinking.” She knew that she wasn’t feeling like herself that first semester: Her

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Hospitals in the US are the fullest they’ve been throughout the pandemic — but it’s not just Covid

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:36:16 +0000

(CNN) — Hospitals are more full than they’ve been throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. But as respiratory virus season surges across the US, it’s much more than Covid that’s filling beds this year. More than 80% of hospital beds are

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Monkeypox infections are slowing in the US. It’s not clear if that will last

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 06:28:34 +0000

(CNN) — The pace of new monkeypox cases reported in some major cities — and in the US overall — has started to slow recently, but experts say it’s too early to know if the trend will last. On Friday, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that she is

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US birth rates rose slightly in 2021 after a steep drop in the first year of the pandemic, CDC data shows

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Tue, 24 May 2022 15:47:02 +0000

(CNN) — Early speculation that the Covid-19 pandemic may lead to a baby boom has been turned on its head, with early data showing more of a baby bust — and worsening rates of some adverse outcomes. After a steep drop in the first year of the pandemic, US birth rates rose only slightly in

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Global COVID-19 deaths surpass 6 million

Deidre McPhillips, CNN — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:37:46 +0000

(CNN) — The global COVID-19 death toll surpassed 6 million on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Global daily deaths have been dropping quickly over the past month, down from about 11,000 a day in the second week of February to about 7,000 a day now — one of the lowest rates reported

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