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The 2-month-old baby who was severely injured in a softball accident earlier this month is breathing on her own for the first time in weeks.

Now the Surgeon-in-Chief at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Dr. Christine Finck has performed countless operations. But it was one procedure she performed nearly 13 years ago that changed her life forever.

A Kansas woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer just days after she found out she was pregnant will celebrate her son’s first birthday next week.

The HTLV-1 virus is spreading in some remote parts of Australia. Doctors want researchers to start working on treatments for this potentially dangerous pathogen.

Katrina Howard, 25, who weighed 58 pounds was told that she would have to travel out of Georgia if she wanted to receive treatment for her anorexia.

A Texas woman expecting triplets was surprised with with a fourth baby after she went into labor on Monday.

Federal health officials warned parents Wednesday about the dangers of teething remedies that contain a popular numbing ingredient and asked manufacturers to stop selling their products intended for babies and toddlers.

Like many couples with teenagers, Tom and Lara Garey used to daydream about a life of easy retirement once their son graduated from high school and moved on to college.

The creator of the innovative football helmet that performed best in NFL testing the last two years is taking its concussion-reducing technology from the playing field to the battlefield.

A popular Brazilian model who documented her fight against cancer on social media has died.

A pregnancy drug banned decades ago may have side effects that linger for generations.

Two of three Ebola patients who escaped quarantine in the Congo river port city of Mbandaka have died, the head of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) mission in the city said on Wednesday.

A Tennessee mother who gave birth while she was in a coma died three years after she regained consciousness, her family said.

An Army surgeon gearing up for his fifth deployment to the Middle East was honored on Tuesday with a New Jersey hospital’s “Military Employee of the Year Award.”

A Minnesota veteran’s offer to sell or trade his hearing aids to help pay for a wheelchair-accessible van has gone viral, resulting in a community-wide spaghetti fundraiser and a GoFundMe page that’s going viral.

An NHL prospect explained Tuesday that he was being hampered by a 25-inch tapeworm during the winter that was affecting his play on the ice and detailed how he discovered the parasite.

Former Indiana first lady Susan Bayh had surgery Tuesday to remove a malignant brain tumor, her family said.

In less than a year, seven of the 20 firefighters of the Glenpool Fire Department in Glenpool, Oklahoma became new fathers.

A mom has told of her guilt after her newborn daughter developed cancer in the womb and was forced to undergo grueling chemotherapy at just 14 days old.

The parents of a baby who died minutes after being born with a rare condition in which the legs are completely fused together, have donated their child's body to research.