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Health officials in India are on high alert for a rare virus spread by fruit bats that can cause flu-like symptoms and has already killed at least 10, with more than 40 others in quarantine.

Junkies have been dumping some 5,000 used needles a week in parks across the Bronx — prompting desperate city officials to install dozens of syringe-disposal kiosks in hopes of cleaning up the dangerous mess.

A 15-year-old girl was arrested on Monday when five of her classmates were sent to the hospital after she allegedly gave them cookies laced with a foreign substance.

A relative of the two-month old baby who was severely injured in an accident at a softball field earlier this month has informed supporters that the infant has opened her eyes, and that she has started tracking her mother’s face and voice.

A Georgetown University grad received a standing ovation on Saturday when he stood up out of his wheelchair and walked across the stage with the help of an aide and a walker to receive his diploma, two years after breaking his neck in a football game.

At least 25 people were hospitalized on Saturday after police responded to reports of a mass overdose outside of a neighborhood deli in Brooklyn.

A mom paid tribute to her son by having a perfect replica of his birthmark painted on her face, so she could walk in his shoes for a day.

Congo will begin administering an experimental Ebola vaccine Monday in Mbandaka, the northwestern city of 1.2 million where the deadly disease has infected some residents, Congo's health minister announced.

A 4-year-old fighting brain cancer hit a home run on Saturday, thanks to baseball players with the Air Force Academy and the University of New Mexico.

Nerve stimulation that boosts the effects of physical therapy may help stroke patients regain arm use. A clinical trial is still recruiting volunteers.

An outbreak of Ebola, once confined to remote rural areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has now spread an area just outside of city of more than one million people, health officials said Thursday.

A Massachusetts man takes an 8-year-old girl with a rare genetic disorder to her doctor’s appointments in a limo -- for free.

Billy, a baseball player with Down syndrome, ended his home run with a celebratory dance. A video of the his home run trot has gone viral.

An audiologist in the U.K. who goes by the moniker “Wax Whisperer” has shared a gruesome clip featuring a patient whose ear wax was so backed up that it had become infected.

After spending nine months together in their mother’s womb, brothers Caleb and Weston Lyman were sure to share a special bond, which became evident just moments after their births.

A tiny hairless pug found wandering the streets is unrecognizable five months after being rescued - and now has a loving home.

Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada was accused of falsely administering chemotherapy to patients who didn’t need it and he was also charged with fraud and money laundering.

A brave nine-year-old girl will have her right leg amputated just two years after losing the other foot to deadly meningitis.

Federal regulators on Wednesday approved the first nonopioid treatment to ease withdrawal from quitting addictive opioids.

U.S. birth rates declined last year for women in their teens, 20s and — surprisingly — their 30s, leading to the fewest babies in 30 years, according to a government report released Thursday.