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She is now urging others to get suspected bites checked.

A division of Novartis, a pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland, has halted shipments of generic versions of the heartburn medication Zantac after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it found trace amounts of a potentially cancer-causing chemical in the product. 

The 30-year-old nurse, was six months pregnant and apparently healthy when she fell ill in the limo on the way to the church last Sunday in São Paulo.

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The move comes as health officials announced an eighth death linked to vaping-related lung illness.

Dr. David Fajgenbaum was a third-year medical student when he suddenly fell ill and was diagnosed with Castleman disease. Determined not to give up on life, the doctor relapsed four times before he took it upon himself to find a cure for his disease. Fajgenbaum sits down with Fox News’ Dr. Manny Alvarez to talk about his miraculous journey of survival.

A 41-year-old United Kingdom man was candid when recently describing an experience that nearly cost him his manhood. 

The decision by an Ohio man to go to the emergency room to have a second look at a bug bite turned out to be a life-saving one, doctors say. 

The number marks a jump from last week's 380 reported illnesses.

A ninth person in Massachusetts has been diagnosed with the rare but potentially deadly mosquito-borne Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus, state health officials announced this week. 

A Rhode Island woman’s blood turned a black color — a sign of a potentially deadly blood condition —  after she took a common over-the-counter medication to relieve a toothache.

He said within minutes of finishing his drink he felt sweaty and his heart was skipping beats.

A man whose left foot was completely severed from his leg during a horrific motorcycle crash will not lose the appendage thanks to doctors who worked tirelessly to reattach it. 

A man from Michigan went from “perfectly healthy to brain dead” in nine days after contracting a rare-mosquito-borne disease, according to a local report.

Calls to poison control centers in states where recreational marijuana is legal have skyrocketed. The reason: sweet treats like candies or brownies infused with the drug have been falling into the wrong hands.

A young Rhode Island girl narrowly escaped death after contracting the rare and potentially deadly  Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus, her family says. 

 The first sexual experience for 1 in 16 U.S. women was forced or coerced intercourse in their early teens, encounters that for some may have had lasting health repercussions, a study suggests.

"Theo is in no way a replacement – he’s his own person. He really is our little rainbow.”

A 2-year-old United Kingdom girl had a near-death experience after doctors — by chance — found a penny-sized lithium battery lodged in her throat. 

A new mom in Chesapeake, Va., says her husband helped her deliver her son in the bathtub in their home not long after the hospital she was expecting to deliver at sent the couple home.