Johnson & Johnson must pay $29 million to a woman who claimed that the asbestos in the company's talcum powder-based products caused her terminal cancer, a California jury ruled Wednesday.
U.S. health regulators are moving ahead with a plan designed to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers by restricting sales of most flavored products in convenience stores and online.
A federal judge in New York has denied a request to let 44 unvaccinated children return to school after their parents sued the Rockland County Health Department over a policy enacted in December.
The heartbroken parents of a 3-year-old boy in the U.K. said that when they noticed that their son was developing a new, crooked smile they simply thought that maybe he was imitating someone he had seen.
This industrial city in central Massachusetts has had many nicknames through the years, including "the Heart of the Commonwealth" and "Wormtown." Among them was this less-known medical moniker: "Hepatitisville."
Vascular risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity have been linked to less healthy brains, according to a new study published Monday.
Health officials are warning about possible measles exposure for travelers who went through Los Angeles International Airport after confirming one case in a person who visited LAX while infectious on Feb. 21.
A Pittston, Pennsylvania company is recalling 35,459 pounds of chicken fried rice because of misbranding and undeclared allergens, a notice from the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said Monday.
The company behind Pillsbury has announced a voluntary recall for its unbleached all-purpose 5-pound flour product over concerns about potential salmonella contamination.
A stage 4 pancreatic cancer survivor’s open letter to “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek has gone viral after the married mother-of-two urged the 78-year-old to “go kick cancer’s butt.”
A man in England has sworn off cleaning his ears with cotton swabs after developing a potentially life-threatening infection that not only affected his hearing, but also spread to the lining of his brain and caused neurological symptoms, according to a new report of his case.
There were more than 17.7 million surgical and minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures in 2018, almost a quarter million more than the year before, according to statistics released Monday.