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An excited 7-year-old girl returned to school in the United Kingdom recently and excitedly showed off her new prosthetic sport blade to her classmates.

It's common for people to pack on more pounds as they age, but now a new study may have an explanation for this weight gain — and it has nothing to do with exercise or poor food choices.

A boy crossing a street in Cameroon got a rare and painful abdominal injury when a motorbike driver lost control and ran into him, according to a new report.

"America is facing a nationwide drinking water crisis," says the co-author of a new report that finds one in four Americans were served by tap water that was unsafe or not properly monitored in 2015.

A company in Australia that has been making jewelry and various mementos for parents using actual raw materials from development—think breast milk, hair, the placenta and cord stump—has taken things a step further, and critics are appalled.

The 20-year-old's parents purchased materials from the soon-to-be shuttered store and built him his very own Blockbuster in their living room.

Health officials in Minnesota are zeroing in on the state’s Somali-American community as they scamble to contain the largest measles outbreak the area has seen since 1990, when 460 people contracted the virus and three died.

Johnson & Johnson on Thursday was ordered by a Missouri state court jury to pay over $110 million to a Virginia woman who says she developed ovarian cancer after decades of using of its talc-based products for feminine hygiene.

Health professionals caution anyone daring to exercise in the summer sun to stay hydrated, and to make sure to take breaks or rest from activity.

Authorities in Vancouver shared a grim look at the opioid crisis impacting neighborhoods in the Canadian city, with a photo on Twitter of three pigeon eggs sitting in a "nest" of discarded hypodermic needles.

After spending a year away from the court receiving treatment for depression and bipolar disorder, 18-year-old Ty Groce is prepared to showcase his basketball talents once again.

A mom has recalled the horrifying moment she realised her face was swelling up because she had a spider living in her ear.

It was the contraceptive device that was meant to stop his mum from becoming pregnant.

The dog was adopted this week and his new home is with Detroit Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is to launch a pilot project this year to assess cheap copies of expensive biotech cancer drugs in a bid to make such medicines more widely available in poorer countries.

When a bystander gives CPR or applies an automatic defibrillator to someone who has collapsed from cardiac arrest, the benefits persist for at least a year.

An Egyptian woman widely believed to have been the world's heaviest woman left an Indian hospital on Thursday more than 300 kg lighter for further treatment in Abu Dhabi.

A study of 12 highly rated hospital doctors (attendings) identified eight characteristics that make them great, especially compassion for their patients.

Researchers are looking to reduce the 1 million US men a year who have prostate biopsies and reduce the thousands who get treatment they don’t need.

The Florida Keys are flying in 40,000 mosquitos a week, to take their own buzzing vacations, of sorts.