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A new study links the Pill and hormonal IUDs to cancer. A doc weighs in on the findings.

There are multiple breast cancer symptoms that women can look out for -- and speak to their doctors about if they’re spotted.

Modern birth control pills that are lower in estrogen have fewer side effects than past oral contraceptives. But a large Danish study suggests that, like older pills, they still modestly raise the risk of breast cancer, especially with long-term use.

A better mammogram?

Not all health news is easy to report, especially when it comes to freak accidents and rare diseases.

More than 7,000 cases of influenza have been confirmed in the U.S. so far this flu season -- more than double the number this time last year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Kroger recalled gallons of its purified water for babies after it received several complaints of mold in the containers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday.

At one time or another in your life, you have probably been around or seen mold.

For an emergency medical technician in Maryland, life has come full circle.

A 23-year-old construction worker used a woodworking blade to remove what he called a pimple on his lower lip, developing a rare fungal infection afterward, a recent report of the man's case revealed.

Thirty-six people have died in South Africa from an outbreak of the food-borne disease listeriosis, the country’s Department of Health said on Tuesday.

A Minnesota family has settled a lawsuit over the 2015 death of their 17-year-old daughter who went into cardiac arrest while having her wisdom teeth removed.

The truth hurts.

The legalization of pot combined with more potent strains of marijuana appears to be increasing the number of cases of a rare ailment that causes regular bouts of vomiting.

A pair of childhood friends are on their way toward completing a bucket list of good deeds as one of them faces a devastating cancer prognosis.

A 3-D printed mask is helping a 4-month-old puppy recover after she was bitten in the face by another dog and suffered a series of facial injuries.

Family members of an Arizona mother who died just one day after being diagnosed with the flu said the 20-year-old was very healthy leading up to her illness, with the exception of suffering from the occasional cold.

Hundreds of thousands of children in the Philippines have been given a dengue vaccine which may worsen the outbreak in those infected.

"I just felt God telling me, 'Tell her that you will do it because you can.'"

In what some Texas doctors are describing as a “breakthrough in medical research,” a baby was recently born from a mother who had a uterine transplant, the medical center said on Friday. The delivery of the child is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S.