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A woman turned her placenta into a smoothie and fed it to her husband and their 3-year-old son for what she believes are the health benefits.

Former NFL quarterback Jim Kelly was recovering Wednesday night in a New York City hospital after undergoing nearly 12 hours of surgery for oral cancer.

Doctors are amazed after removing 2,350 stones from a woman's gallbladder.

The former Russian spy and his daughter poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent in Britain earlier this month have a slim chance on surviving, his niece said.

A man who thought he had a big belly actually had a 30-pound cancerous tumor growing in his abdomen.

Lydia’s reaction was first reported in a Facebook post by her parents 24 hours after using the makeup. It went viral.

A chemical spill Tuesday at a suburban Chicago medical clinic sent at least 15 people to hospitals, including employees and patrons, authorities said.

It was the "perfect storm," Jim Flath says of his 26-year-old son's sudden death during a family ski vacation in Colorado last week.

A group of scientists recently discovered an organ called the interstitium. It may help to explain how cancer spreads.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology says researchers turned up “dense growths of bacteria and fungi” on the insides of toys like rubber ducks and crocodiles.

A pregnant woman had a huge scare when a scan revealed she had a tumor “as big as her baby.”

A woman with a heart-shaped vitiligo patch on her face has told how she finally found the courage to go makeup-free after 30 years of "wearing a mask".

Smokers who say they want to kick the habit might have an easier time if they don't use e-cigarettes, a U.S. study suggests.

New research suggests that more than 20 minutes of daily exercise is necessary to reduce mortality and the risk of disease. But the good news is that the exercise can provide all these benefits even when broken down into short bursts of activity.

A 15-year-old girl who weighs 380lbs due to a rare condition, called Prader-Willi Syndrome, has been crowned a pageant queen.

An Ohio fertility clinic where thousands of frozen eggs and embryos may have been damaged in a storage tank failure says it's ruled out any inappropriate physical access to its storage tanks area.

Obese people have shorter lives and even those who are just overweight spend more years living with heart disease than individuals who are a healthy weight, a U.S. study suggests.

A woman has eaten solid food for the first time in 30 years after her jaw was fused shut by a tumor.

British scientists have developed a lightweight and highly sensitive brain imaging device that can be worn as a helmet, allowing the patient to move about naturally.

Researchers were able to freeze a nerve in the back that carries hunger signals to the brain, lowering patients' appetite and promoting weight loss.