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Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a new study found.

The family of an Oregon woman whose body was donated to science after her death said they had no inkling during her 99 years of life that she had a rare condition that caused her organs to exist in the wrong places.

Leaders in Rockland County, N.Y. are weighing their legal options after a judge ruled against banning unvaccinated children from public places. Todd Piro reports from the Rockland County Courthouse.

Like a scene from “Caddy Shack,” but worse.

Health care workers caring for infectious patients sometimes make mistakes when removing personal protective garments, resulting in contamination of clothes or equipment with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a small study shows.

Fisher Price has issued a warning to parents who own their Rock 'N Play Sleeper, after announcing that 10 babies have died while using it since 2015.

A norovirus outbreak was reported at a children’s hospital in Washington, D.C., on Saturday after three patients tested positive for the contagious virus, health officials said.

During a head-on car collision in Melbourne, Australia, then-16-month-old Jackson Taylor suffered a serious spinal injury.

A California hospital issued an apology to several women this week who have filed lawsuits claiming they were unknowingly filmed during gynecological surgeries.

An Iowa man was awarded over $12 million after a jury found that he was wrongfully operated on when a medical center misdiagnosed him with cancer.

Think vaping with your kids in the car Is harmless? Think again

In order to pay their son’s extensive medical bills, a doctor suggested that a Tennessee couple should get a divorce.

Almost 200 people could have been exposed to measles after a child with the disease was treated in the emergency room at the University of California, Davis, (UC Davis) Children’s Hospital last month.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh concluded a nationwide HPV school vaccination program offered to young girls led to a “dramatic reduction” in the risk of developing cervical cancer later in life.

After two survivors of the Parkland shooting and the parent of a child who was killed in the Newtown, Conn. massacre, committed suicide, many experts are saying more attention needs to be put on those who suffer from survivor’s guilt. Psychotherapist Edy Nathan sits down with Fox News’ Dr. Manny Alvarez to discuss this phenomenon and the help that’s needed to treat survivors of traumatic events.

A 6-year-old’s attempt at faking sick to miss school has left her “red-in-the-face” after the marker she used to cover herself in phony chickenpox turned out to be permanent.

At least 46 people have been sickened as a result of an E. coli outbreak in Kentucky, state health officials said this week.

A line of Hunt’s tomato paste is being pulled from shelves after the company received complaints from consumers about the presence of mold in the product.

A Massachusetts director of nursing who at the end of each workday took to visiting an infant who had landed in her hospital is now the girl’s mother after she had volunteered to foster her when the state gained custody of her in October 2016.

Blood pressure and stroke risk rise steadily the more alcohol people drink, and previous claims that one or two drinks a day might protect against stroke are not true, according to the results of a major genetic study.