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A Wisconsin man suffered severe heart and lung damage after vaping and was placed into a medically induced coma Thursday, reports said.

Counterfeit pills that are traded and sold in the San Diego area with the promise of a "painkiller high" are believed to be linked to four overdose deaths in a one-day span, authorities said Thursday.

A swimmer has died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from a water park in North Carolina, according to reports.

A 29-year-old Ohio woman who had skin cancer removed from her forehead was left with a golf-ball sized hole that required plastic surgery to correct. 

The bacteria can enter through cuts, scrapes, burns, insect bites, puncture wounds or surgical wounds.

Less than 24 hours after learning the news, she went into labor.

They found each other through Facebook shortly after the transplant.

The New York City Health Department said mosquitoes collected in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were infected with West Nile virus. 

A Maine resident has been infected with a rare but typically severe tick-borne illness that can cause brain infections and meningitis and, in some cases, lead to death. 

An Associated Press analysis of drug distribution data released as a result of lawsuits against the industry found that the amount of opioids as measured by total potency continued to rise early this decade even as the number of pills distributed began to dip.

First-time drug users may be unfamiliar with the drugs' effects, which may put these individuals at higher risk of harm, the authors said.

His daughter said his arm had been "skinned like a deer."

The company issued the recall in response to a request from the FDA.

They don't hold a grudge against their mother and learned to separate her love for them from her addiction.

High school football players in Idaho surprised a 9-year-old boy with autism by coming to his birthday party after only one classmate accepted his invitation.

A foodborne parasite has sickened more than 100 people Massachusetts, state health officials said this week. 

Stephanie Swedberg, who is 33-weeks pregnant, said she was in the water at Crystal Beach Park with one of her boys when she saw a fully dressed mother wading through the water screaming for help.

d. Guidelines released this year ruled out routine aspirin use for many older adults who don't already have heart disease — and said it's only for certain younger people under doctor's orders.

The other patients recovered from the antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection.

He said that he had better managed his type 2 diabetes, he likely wouldn't have waited so long to seek medical attention.