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A devoted dad is gaining supporters worldwide after sharing a photo of himself posing shirtless with his young son who was born with a congenital heart defect.

Studies using gene sequencing equipment to trace the path of Zika through the Americas show the virus arrived a year before the first case was detected in Brazil, and several months before it was first reported in Florida.

Breaking up is hard to do.

A New York mother has turned to her son’s legion of Facebook supporters in hopes of finding a doctor who will operate on him as the 20-year-old battles a disease so rare that it isn’t named.

The number of surgeries done to confirm a person's gender identity, also referred to as sex reassignment surgeries , has increased in recent years, according to the first report on the topic from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

Pete Frates became a household name after he and his family raised more than $250 million through the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Eating a small amount of chocolate every week or so may decrease the risk of a common and serious type of irregular heart rhythm, according to a new study of people in Denmark.

Spring is in the air, and so are new diet plans.

Drug-overdose deaths in the Big Apple have shot up by 22 percent so far this year, police officials said Monday.

The "simplest of drugs" is in short supply at hospitals around the country, causing crucial surgeries and other treatments to be reprioritized, and it's a cheap drug whose main ingredient may be found in your own pantry, the New York Times reports.

A dog found near death at a rest stop in New Jersey will be reunited with her family two years after she disappeared from their New York home.

Just one alcoholic drink per day—even a teeny one—may not bode well for women on the breast cancer front, reports the Washington Post.

The mother of a quadriplegic graduate student who accompanied her son to every class and took notes was recognized with a surprise honorary degree at his graduation ceremony on Saturday.

A 37-year-old father of two has been identified as the first fatality in a botulism outbreak linked to nacho cheese sold at a Northern California gas station.

The original manuscript that became the basis for Alcoholics Anonymous is the subject of a new lawsuit by the organization, which wants to reclaim it before it can be auctioned next month.

Medicine has become synonymous with drug therapy, a situation that is upsetting for patients and health care practitioners alike, and potentially dangerous.

Every year, millions of women in the United States suffer post-menopausal changes in their lives, including symptoms of vaginal atrophy.

The Ohio-based maker of Nathan’s and Curtis hot dogs has issued a recall for more than 210,000 pounds of ready-to-eat beef franks after receiving complaints about metal materials in the product.

The West African Ebola outbreak , which peaked between August and September 2014, killed 11,310 people, according to the World Health Organization .

A mother in Canada is pleading with other parents to be cautious when using aerosol spray sunscreen on their children after her 14-month-old daughter suffered second-degree chemical burns on her face.