A 15-year-old girl who was forced to skip school and live inside a sealed room after she developed a life-threatening allergy to smells two years ago said she’s been able to gain some normalcy after being paired with a service dog.
A bizarre “at-home” remedy for back pain has landed a 33-year-old unidentified patient in the Irish Medical Journal after doctors discovered that he was injecting his own semen into his forearm.
A hamburger a week, but no more — that's about as much red meat people should eat to do what's best for their health and the planet, according to a report seeking to overhaul the world's diet.
A chance drop in at the hairdresser’s turned out to be lifesaving for a driving instructor in the U.K. whose stylist spotted a lump on his head that was later diagnosed as cancer.
The Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility near Ypsilanti, Michigan, said this week it plans to treat its 2,000 inmates for scabies, according to a local report.
Health officials in Colorado reported the state’s first pediatric flu death of the season, and said the highest rate of hospitalizations due to the virus has been among 0-4 year olds.
A newlywed bride in the U.K. claims she and her new husband were just three days into their dream week-long Egyptian honeymoon when they began suffering from diarrhea and severe stomach pains.
A Nevada college student who lost her leg to an infection after she was allegedly shoved in front of a train during an attempted robbery in Costa Rica said a move to New York and reconnecting with God has helped her recover from the traumatic incident.
A mother in the U.K. claims doctors don’t expect her liver to fully recover until the end of the year after the daily contraceptive she was taking allegedly landed her in the hospital for two weeks.
An 8-year-old North Carolina boy who received a devastating and unexpected diagnosis of glioblastoma while visiting family in Utah over the holidays has now been reunited with his beloved dog thanks to the kindness of a complete stranger.
A man who reportedly drank an entire 30-milliliter bottle liquid sildenafil, which is used to treat erectile dysfunction, experienced vision issues that included “debilitating night blindness,” according to a medical case study recently published in the in the journal JAMA Opthalmology.
An intensive care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced after being sued by a family alleging an improper dose of fentanyl actively hastened the death of one of those patients.