Elizabeth Cohen has this story, plus an update on Aimee Copeland. The young woman's life changed from flesh-eating bacteria.
In the four weeks since his daughter cut her leg in the Tallapoosa River, Andy Copeland has experienced several low points. But nothing was as desperate as a moment in the surgical waiting room on May 4.
Which sunscreen should you choose? Elizabeth Cohen has more on the buying guide issued by Consumer Reports.
Elizabeth Cohen has an update on Aimee Copeland, who had flesh-eating bacteria.
Brooke Baldwin and Elizabeth Cohen talk to a victim of flesh-eating bacteria.
Elizabeth Cohen discusses a study linking babies born via C-section to obesity.
Sr. Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reports on Aimee Copeland's fight to survive flesh-eating bacteria.
Aimee Copeland's father, Andy, posts a moving update on his daughter's fight to survive flesh eating bacteria.
Elizabeth Cohen discusses breast-feeding after a magazine cover stirs up debate.
Elizabeth Cohen discusses the case of a young woman infected with rare flesh-eating bacteria.
A New Jersey mom is in trouble with the law after taking her young daughter tanning. Elizabeth Cohen has more.
Elizabeth Cohen discusses Facebook allowing users to set another status: one for organ donation.
Newborns suffer when pregnant moms take opiates- powerful painkiller medicines. Elizabeth Cohen explains.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a new concern for parents- teens drinking hand sanitizer.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on the confirmed case of "mad cow" disease in California.
A new study looks at background television and kids. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Singer Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees awakes from a coma. Elizabeth Cohen has more.
Giuliana and Bill Rancic are expecting a baby, using a gestational carrier. Elizabeth Cohen explains.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports on controversy surrounding a diet fad involving a feeding tube.
Elizabeth Cohen explains how health care reform would affect Medicaid.
Elizabeth Cohen breaks down what penalties for no health insurance would mean to different people.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on Safeway stores stopping sales of ground beef containing "pink slime."
A couple was awarded millions in a "wrongful birth" case. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
A group says the caramel coloring in soft drinks should be banned. Elizabeth Cohen explains.
A new report looks at advertising for tobacco and smoking in young people. Elizabeth Cohen has the details.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a mistake at a pharmacy, which resulted in kids getting a cancer drug.
At 3:30 a.m., Stefany Shaheen awoke to a feeling of uneasiness. Something was not quite right with her daughter, Elle.
The FDA changes labels on statin medications after reports of some side effects. Elizabeth Cohen has details.
A study reveals some baby formula and snack bars have arsenic in them. Elizabeth Cohen has the details.
Elizabeth Cohen speaks with Dr. Otis Brawley from the American Cancer Society about drugs in danger of running out.
The FDA is warning of a counterfeit version of the anti-cancer drug, Avastin.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a commentary published in the journal "Nature" relating sugar to tobacco and alcohol.
Pfizer is recalling one million packs of birth control pills. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
A breast implant maker in France linked to a health scare was arrested. Elizabeth Cohen has the details.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on new federal guidelines for school lunches.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a milestone in embryonic stem cell research.
Have obesity rates stabilized? Does exercise influence Alzheimer's? Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on the controversy surrounding a hospital denying a young girl a kidney transplant.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a study finding older women have less, but more satisfying, sex.
Elizabeth Cohen looks at Michelle Duggar's miscarriage, after 19 children.
What does the color of your plate have to do with how much food you eat? Elizabeth Cohen has more.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on the government's ruling on the morning-after pill for young teens.
Two prescription giants want to merge. Elizabeth Cohen explains what this would mean for consumers.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a study of kids ages 10-17 and the act of 'sexting.'
Elizabeth Cohen has the details on the development of an artificial pancreas for diabetics.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on the sudden death of Arkansas football player Garrett Uekman.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a Harvard study about coffee cutting the risk of endometrial cancer.
Elizabeth Cohen explains the FDA's rejection of Avastin for metastatic breast cancer.
Raising awareness about prostate cancer is the goal of some men with mustaches. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on a study that shows one in four women are on mental health drugs.
It was early evening when Lee Ferrero got in his car to make the trip home from a meeting for work. He'd done the trip many times over the years, and he looked forward to the drive.
Elizabeth Cohen shares some tips for squeezing exercise into your day.
It's happened so many times that Dr. Raymond Pitetti has lost count: A child comes into the emergency room with, say, a broken leg, and doctors give him strong narcotic painkillers in the ER, but then send the child home with no pain medication at all.
Elizabeth Cohen reports on women paying more for better breast cancer testing.
The CDC issues a report on the abuse of prescription pain drugs. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
New guidelines for which teenagers should get tested for HIV. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Imagine going in for a cancer screening, and the technician turns to you and says, "We're finished, but if I push this button over here, the machine can detect even smaller cancers. But here's the hitch: You have to pay $700 if you want me to push this button."
Julie Perrault shudders when she remembers some of the dumb things she did when her kids were babies.
At his son's 11th birthday party, just before everyone was about to sing "Happy Birthday" and cut the cake, 46-year-old Dr. Carlos Zayas stepped on to the porch of his Atlanta home to take a call from another doctor about a particularly sick patient.
When Dr. Rachel Wellner got a text from her brother Tuesday night that his wife was in labor, she was speaking at a fancy charity event for breast cancer research. As soon as her speech was over, she raced in her evening gown to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan to watch her nephew, Lincoln Jacob Wellner, come into the world.
It's never easy when you get that phone call, even when you've known for years that it might be coming. But on Friday, I got the call that someone I loved had died.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen on a new study that shows half of U.S. drinks two sugary beverages a day.
A few months before her second birthday, a small bump about the size of a pimple appeared on Audriana Willman's right leg. Her parents, Andrew and Chelsea, noticed the boil in the evening, as they prepared their daughter for bed.
If you're a woman contemplating surgery on your female parts, you'll find plenty of ladies chatting and blogging away about their experiences, often on websites adorned with pink ribbons.
Looking back on it, Wendy Fox thinks it was the M&M's that did her in.
There I was at a long-awaited dinner with friends Saturday night, when in the midst of our chatting, I watched my right hand sneaking away from my side to grab my phone sitting on the table to check my e-mail.
When Dr. Carolyn LaFleur was in a car accident six years ago, she couldn't move her neck for a year and a half, she had terrible pain in her hip, and she would get headaches at her temples.
For two years after a hip surgery that didn't work out as well as he'd hoped, pain shot down Jim Heckler's leg like electrical shocks. Several doctors, eager to help Heckler feel better, prescribed various narcotic painkillers.
You might not realize it, but your doctor could be complaining about you online.
Elaine Farstad got antsy as she waited for her doctor, who was late for her scheduled appointment. Then she got downright impatient. Then, as nearly two hours passed, she got mad. Then she came up with an idea.
When Hilarie Cash arrives home from work in the evening, she has a choice: She can go outside and tend to her garden or she can hop on her laptop.
The first time Wilson Alvarado got lost on the way to a neighborhood park, he told his wife, Patricia, not to worry about it -- he was 62, he told her, and just getting a little forgetful.
As part of the Catholic wedding vows they took four years ago, Melissa and Jacob Arnold promised to be "open to children."
As a parent, you might look at the government's new nutrition icon and think, "Really?"
Many patients end up on multiple prescriptions, but experts say too many pills can be a prescription for disaster.
As much as she would like to, Dr. Lissa Rankin, a gynecologist, will never forget the woman who planned her wedding while lying naked on her examining table.
Dylan Ryan and Danny Wylde knew each other online -- she's read his blog, he's seen her tweets -- before they met in person in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. A bit awkward, they made small talk, spending an hour or so getting to know each other.
The Saghin family was getting ready for church last month in Phoenix when 2-year-old Brooke sneaked out a back door that had been left open, fell into a swimming pool and started to drown.
Early one morning in April, Tasha Gaul and Dale Matlock took their young son, Jesse, to a hospital in Portland, Oregon, for surgery to correct his lazy eye. It was supposed to be an easy procedure: Jesse, who was 3 at the time, wouldn't even have to spend the night at the hospital.
All newborn babies cry, but Anika Reese seemed to be in a category all her own. She screamed in pain nearly all the time, grabbing her own little cheeks so forcefully she sometimes drew blood.
Fifty-one years ago, Frank lost something he considers valuable. It was his foreskin, and Frank would like it back.
It's become a classic scenario: You have a headache and after Googling it, you find out a headache can be a sign of a brain tumor.
I was in the security line at an airport a few months ago when I watched a fellow passenger do something I'd never seen done before: He dissed the scan.
Ryan Jeffers finds it hard to believe his daughter, Malyia, went from being a perfectly healthy 2-year-old who loved to dance, sing and entertain to an amputee facing a lifetime of medical care.
If you're trying to lose weight, close your eyes for a minute and imagine the moments that make you fat.
As about 2% of babies born in the United States do, Alex Resnick failed the routine newborn hearing screening he received before he left the hospital. At first his parents didn't think much of it, since the nurse told them further testing often shows the baby is fine. But six weeks later when those additional tests showed Alex had moderate to severe hearing loss, his mother's heart sank.
In the movie "The King's Speech," there is a pivotal scene where Elizabeth, the future queen, frustrated by the failures of doctors who were trying to treat her husband's stutter, ventures into the streets of London to the office of controversial speech therapist Lionel Logue. So unaccustomed to the outside world, Elizabeth doesn't even know how to properly work the elevator in Logue's building.
When Debbie Wasserman Schultz visited her friend Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital last week, she talked to her about the demonstrations in Egypt and the Republicans' proposed budget cuts -- not exactly topics you might expect during a hospital visit.
As one of the nation's leading fertility experts, Dr. Jamie Grifo is barraged with phone calls requesting advice. He thought he'd heard it all until a few weeks ago when callers started asking him a completely new question.
Carolyn Hennecy had a suspicion about what was happening to her when she started having shortness of breath and tension in her left arm and jaw.
Three weeks ago, while recovering in the hospital after giving birth to a baby girl, Rena Jones was amped up and on guard.
When 2-year-old Malyia Jeffers developed a fever one Sunday afternoon in November, her parents gave her a children's Motrin and kept a cautious eye on her throughout the night.
A new blood test in development would detect a single cancer cell in the blood stream. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Here's what Katie Roche expected when she went into the hospital for spine surgery: two titanium rods, a bone graft, 17 screws in her vertebrae, eight hours in the operating room, and a week's stay in the hospital to recover.
If your New Year's plans include alcohol, don't drink too much. If you do, CNN's Elizabeth Cohen has some solutions.
A new study finds finger length may indicate a lower risk of developing prostate cancer. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports on diet book wars and weight management programs making big changes to their plans.
All newborn babies cry, but Anika Reese seemed to be in a category all her own. She screamed in pain nearly all the time, grabbing her own little cheeks so forcefully she sometimes drew blood.
On Thursday, December 2, as Aneka sat at home nine months pregnant, the phone rang.
One day in 2004, a 29-year-old man with a terrible stomach problem stepped off a plane from the United States in Thailand. He wasn't there for the sights, or the food, or the beaches. He had traveled thousands of miles for worms -- parasitic worms whose eggs he intended to swallow by the thousands.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen examines Lap-Band surgery one day before the FDA gets ready to vote on lowering its BMI guidance.
Most artists have to wait years -- or perhaps an eternity -- to earn serious money from their work. Aidan Reed, on the other hand, earned more than $83,000 in a few weeks, and he's only 5.
When Leidy Sanchez and her husband, Carlos Reyes, went to the hospital last week to deliver their baby, a nurse got her a gown, hooked her up to a fetal monitor and asked an unexpected question: Would they like to donate cells from their baby's umbilical cord blood to a public bank?
Toby Amidor remembers well -- but not fondly -- her child's meltdown over a bottle of Yoo-hoo.
Like many Americans, you probably think you're pretty charitable. Perhaps you donate money to the needy or ill, give away your old clothes, volunteer at your child's school or participate in holiday gift drives in December.
One day, Google's chief health strategist, Dr. Roni Zeiger, had an epiphany: On any given day, more people are posing health questions to Google than posing health questions to their doctors.
Would you know what to do in a first aid emergency? CNN's Elizabeth Cohen has one couple's story.
When Hallie Leighton received the letter from her doctor with the results of her recent mammogram, she opened it tentatively, afraid of what it might say. Her mother and grandmother had both had breast cancer, and she didn't want to suffer the same fate.
Year after year, doctor's visit after doctor's visit, Myke Triebold kept a secret from her gynecologist.
CNN's Josh Levs interviews CNN's Elizabeth Cohen about revolutionizing your medical care online.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen explains how choosing the right hospital could save your life.
My mother, Sheila Schwartz, is a firecracker. As a lawyer, social worker, wife, mother of four and grandmother of 11, she's always on the go -- working, caring, loving life. About 10 years ago, when my mother was around 60, something suddenly changed. She began feeling tired, achy and dizzy, and her blood pressure was slightly high even though she was on blood pressure medication. Her internist tinkered with the dosage, but the blood pressure wouldn't budge.
Edward Darden started taking the diabetes drug Avandia in 2006 to help control his blood sugar and was doing just fine, he said. But he became concerned when he saw warnings linking the drug to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack, following the 2007 release of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
After completing his second year of business classes at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama, in 2007, Joshua Armstrong decided to take a break from full-time studies.
Jim Beaty was renovating his Seattle, Washington, home one day when he went to cut a 16-foot piece of siding in the garage. He turned to talk to his son, Eric, and the electric saw went out of control and cut his fingers.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen discusses a woman who went against her doctors intial assesment and discovered tissue regenration.
After running inside from a rainstorm one Friday evening last January, Deepa Kulkarni leaned against the doorway with her right hand to take off her boots. Then, in an effort to make sure the dog didn't get out, someone slammed the door hard, and it landed right on her pinky.
It was the fifth game of the 2009 Ohio State University football season, and offensive lineman Andy Miller cheered as the Buckeyes sprinted past the Indiana Hoosiers, 33-14, the fourth win of the year. The campus was brimming with excitement, yet for Miller the occasion was bittersweet.
Chad Arnold clearly remembers the day he received the call from his older brother, Ryan, telling him they were a perfect match for a liver transplant.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen takes Tony Harris for a visit to the doctor.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen chats with American Morning about the inspiration behind the Empowered Patient series and book.
Four days after giving birth, amped up on a combination of hormones and anxiety, I gathered together what was left of my stomach muscles and wrenched myself out of bed. Throwing on a bathrobe, I dragged myself to the neonatal intensive care unit.
In her new book, "The Empowered Patient: How to Get the Right Diagnosis, Buy the Cheapest Drugs, Beat Your Insurance Company, and Get the Best Medical Care Every Time" (Ballantine Trade Paperback Original / On-sale August 10, 2010), Elizabeth Cohen, CNN senior medical correspondent, shows readers how to ensure they get the best medical care for themselves and their families every time they set foot in the doctor's office.
"I see a scared, scared woman," said Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael, in an interview with CNN's Larry King, referring to how he felt watching the troubled movie star being handcuffed and taken away to jail on Tuesday.
Edward Darden started taking the diabetes drug Avandia in 2006 to help control his blood sugar and was doing just fine, he said. But he became concerned when he saw warnings linking the drug to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack, following the 2007 release of a study in the "New England Journal of Medicine."
More than 16,000 U.S. medical school graduates are awarded M.D. degrees each year, and many enter their residency programs at teaching hospitals in July. Now, a growing body of research suggests that month might be a more deadly time in U.S. hospitals.
When Jacqueline Shaw picked up her son, Aaron, from day care, he came running at her full-force, as always, with all the energy you'd expect from a loving 4-year-old thrilled to see his mother at the end of the day.
Losing interest in sex would be unfortunate for most people, but for Linda Poelzl it was a professional hazard.
Like anyone else, Dr. Rachel Zahn loves a deal, so when a friend e-mailed her a link to an internet site offering $99 genetic testing -- usually it costs $499 -- she figured, "Why not?" and sent away for the test.
You eat right. You exercise. You get an annual physical. You probably think you're doing everything you can to stay healthy.
Kindra Arnesen's husband often calls while he's out on a shrimping trip, so she wasn't surprised to hear her cell phone ring the night of April 29 while he was on an overnight fishing expedition.
This month, actress Kelly Preston announced that she was pregnant at the age of 47, prompting TV talk show discussions about the marvels of modern medicine that allowed Preston and her husband, actor John Travolta, to have a baby so late in life.
Soon after Paul Coskie's bicycle collided with a car, it became clear to his mother that her son would be sick for a very long time, and indeed he was. The 13-year-old boy went into a coma for a month and spent six months total in the hospital.
After Barbara Walters told her fellow anchors on "The View" about her plans to have surgery later this week to fix her heart's faulty aortic valve, she mentioned she had known about her problem for a long time.
Fifty years ago, women obtained a new level of control over their reproductive systems. The introduction of the birth control pill meant they could have sex without getting pregnant, decide how far apart to have their children and they could even decide when -- or whether -- to have a monthly period.
Lee Robinson wasn't all that excited about having a baby. It's not that she didn't want one, it's just that she and her husband, Claude, were happy with their busy lives in Thomson, Georgia, where she's a high school teacher and he's a caterer.
When Jennifer Nicholas sees television shows or movies where characters "hook up" or have sex with "friends with benefits," she cringes, because that's how she got herpes.
Mackenzie Riley is only 13 years old, but her schedule is busier than many adults. Besides being on her middle-school yearbook staff and taking piano and voice lessons once a week, she is also the co-captain of her seventh-grade basketball and volleyball teams.
Like many parents, Shannon Kinninger spends a lot of time chauffeuring her children around town.
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