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When the boy band One Direction sang about trying to "scream out my lungs" in its ballad "Moments," the group likely wasn't expecting anyone to take the lyrics literally.

A Chicago man running in his 11th marathon on Sunday got some help from two police officers after he injured his hip just two miles from the finish line.

The number of obese children and adolescents worldwide has jumped tenfold in the past 40 years and the rise is accelerating in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Asia, a major study said on Wednesday.

Lab tests showing that women have low reserves of eggs in their ovaries may not necessarily mean they will struggle to get pregnant, a U.S. study suggests.

Officials are struggling to contain a widespread and deadly outbreak of the plague that’s been wreaking havoc in Madagascar since late August.

California’s governor, Jerry Brown, on Friday signed a law that lowers the penalty for exposing partners to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor, which includes those who donate blood without informing the center about their HIV status.

California’s governor, Jerry Brown, on Friday signed a law that lowers the penalty for exposing partners to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor, which includes those who donate blood without informing the center about their HIV status.

A 31-year-old triathlete was pronounced dead at a hospital on Saturday just hours after first responders received a call about a hiker who had been bitten by a rattlesnake.

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A new way to collect and organize data could be the answer to tackling the years-long opioid overdose epidemic.

A 3-year-old boy whose fight with cancer prompted his small southern Kansas hometown to celebrate Christmas in September has died.

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On Aug. 2, Lee’s father and stepmother found him on the floor of their basement.

Sara McGlocklin said she noticed her daughter Marian was struggling to swallow at just 6-months-old.

A second Michigan mother appeared before a judge on Monday over her refusal to vaccinate her child despite the father’s wishes.

The Michigan mother who was jailed over her refusal to vaccinate her 9-year-old son was released after serving five days behind bars.

Insys Therapeutics has been accused of creating fake cancer patients to help sales of its drug Subsys. Cancer activists say the actions are shameful.

A potential new drug might protect infants from whooping cough in their first few months of life, before they can be vaccinated, early research suggests.

One of the latest victims of the cholera epidemic that has killed more than 2,000 people in Yemen had yet to even take her first breath.

By now, most people are aware of the enormity of the opioid epidemic.