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Benjamin Franklin famously quipped that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Today, most people could justifiably add, "and I don't understand either of them."

A toddler whose facial nerves were damaged during surgery to remove a huge tumor which doctors first believed was an ear infection is now cancer free, just months after her parents were told she may not survive. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was blasted by his family in a recent op-ed regarding his beliefs on vaccinations.

Continued attacks on Ebola treatment facilities and medical professionals have many fearing the outbreak in the DRC could morph into another global catastrophe.

An Army veteran from Iowa received his final wish to marry the love of his life just hours before he tragically died at the age of 20 from liver cancer.

The Kentucky high school senior at the center of a vaccination lawsuit has allegedly come down with the chicken pox.

Oyster lovers, beware: Raw oysters harvested from Estero El Cardon in Baja California Sur, Mexico, have been linked to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak in California.

 A California mother who spent a year and a half fighting in court on behalf of her son who was found unresponsive at his daycare and later died has filed a separate lawsuit against online retailer Etsy, and the Lithuanian makers of a teething necklace that the boy was wearing when he was placed down for a nap.  

A family in Pakistan is desperate for surgeons to save their infant son whose brain is growing out of his nose.

The hope is that technology will extinguish the patient's addiction, quite literally, with the flip of a switch.

Tyson Foods Inc. says it will install metal detecting devices to ensure product safety following a recall of nearly 12 million pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips over consumer complaints of contamination.

A Texas lawmaker and a pro-vaccine doctor got into a Twitter spat on Tuesday when the Republican representative accused the pediatrician of peddling “sorcery” and accused those defending science of being "typical leftist(s) trying to take credit for something only The Lord God Almighty is in control of."

More U.S. women are dying from pregnancy-related causes, and more than half of those deaths are preventable, government health officials said in a report Tuesday.

When he isn’t smoking cigars and laying low in his native of Memphis, Tennessee, pediatric cardiac surgeon Dr. William Novick is battling bombs and bureaucracy in some of the most dangerous frontlines of the world. And now he is at the forefront in promoting a different kind of U.S. diplomacy: medical foreign policy.

A pair of Texas siblings born with a rare genetic disorder got the call they needed recently when they found out a deceased donor could provide them both with life-changing kidneys.

Health officials in Seattle are warning about a Canadian traveler who passed through popular tourist spots in late April while infected with measles.

A working mom-of-two was left looking like she had “botched lip fillers” after suffering an allergic reaction to a bargain $80 teeth whitening treatment she had done at home.

When people slather on sunscreen, chemicals in the products are absorbed into the bloodstream, and the health effects are still unknown, a new government study reports.

The family of an Indiana teen who was critically injured while allegedly attempting a “choking challenge” he saw online said that he donated his organs on Monday afternoon.

William Bennett, the nation’s first drug czar, said Monday that the debate about the opioid overdose epidemic wrongly focuses on prescription drugs.