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Could your doctor's age affect how you fare during treatment? Perhaps. A new study finds that older doctors have higher patient mortality rates.

A genetic test and a doctor's online sleuthing solved a mystery that had gone unsolved since a boy's birth nearly four years earlier.

After early success transplanting hepatitis C-infected kidneys, University of Pennsylvania researchers now plan to try using infected hearts in transplants.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order banning smoking in public across the second-most populous country in Southeast Asia, one of the region's strictest anti-tobacco laws.

Artificial ovaries grown in a lab might someday be available for women with infertility due to cancer treatments or other conditions, a study in mice suggests.

Nearly every modern parent has given a tablet or smartphone to a child for entertainment at some point.

Fidget spinners are all the rage among elementary school students, and some parents hopeful that the toy may help their children concentrate.

A family is struck with tragic news.

Two more retired football stars have pledged their brains to research.

Gisele Bundchen revealed on Wednesday that her Super Bowl-winning husband Tom Brady suffered a concussion last year, stopping short of inferring that he suffers one each season.

The heroin epidemic has made its way to Vancouver, British Columbia, and even the rats are being felled.

A Georgia community is mourning the sudden death of a freshman football player who died after appearing pale during practice.

The deceased former director of a Dutch sperm bank is being sued by 23 parents and children who claim he switched their chosen donor samples with his own without their knowledge.

Teen drinking has dropped in recent decades, but still about one-third of U.S. high schoolers say they drink alcohol, and one in six say they binge drink , according to a new report.

A dangerous bacteria found in hospitals might have originated from an ancestor that lived in the guts of the first animals to walk on land, according to a new study.

As you read this, take a whiff.

Super Bowl champion quarterback Drew Brees knows all about the dangers of playing in the hot sun, having spent his youth practicing in the brutal Texas heat.

A Frisco detective left paralyzed from the chest down by a complication from a long-term illness is fighting hard to get back to work. But he's not doing it alone.

A Florida man is accused of faking stage 4 cancer to manipulate women into relationships for food, money and shelter, according to reports.

Football, baseball, field hockey, swimming, basketball, and cross country are just a few of the competitive sports high school students play.