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A midwife in the middle of getting her hair colored learned the true meaning of the phrase “nature calls” when a client went into labor just as her stylist finished foiling her hair.

The first time many patients in the United States take prescription opioid painkillers is following surgery.

Australian researchers have discovered a "revolutionary" new way to stop the growth of colon and stomach cancers, which could lead to a new cancer-fighting drug within three years.

Twin sisters Amy and Becky Earley are described as “incredibly close” by friends who set up a GoFundMe page on their behalf, but their bond is about to get even more special as one prepares to donate a life-saving kidney to the other.

A Connecticut fireman is bracing for a series of trips to Illinois in hopes of finding a treatment that will stop his stage 4 colorectal cancer in its tracks.

As caring parents, you adore watching your children play, learn, and interact with others.

Two parents broke down Tuesday as a London judge told them their 8-month-old baby could be taken off life support against their will, the Guardian reports.

When a teen in Utah was denied a lung transplant necessary to save his life because he had smoked pot a few days prior to coming down with the flu, his family cried foul, reports KSL.

A California couple on their honeymoon in Hawaii contracted a brain- and spine-infecting parasite.

Toyota is introducing a wearable robotic leg brace designed to help partially paralyzed people walk.

This year alone, the American Cancer Society estimates that doctors will find more than 300,000 new cases of breast cancer in the United States.

A man was charged Monday for allegedly hazing a Central Michigan University student with a severe peanut allergy by smearing peanut butter of his face, prosecutors said.

Players from rival towns and beyond are rallying for a Connecticut teen who finished his hockey season while unknowingly battling what was initially suspected to be the flu or tonsillitis, but eventually was discovered to be a softball-sized cancerous mass growing between his heart and lung.

Virginia State Police bomb technicians are using their skills to create special Easter eggs for the visually impaired.

Five years ago, the clinical trial data on a cancer drug that Dr. Tom Marsilje had co-invented had just been presented at a health care conference when he received news that would forever change the way he approached the disease.

A prank-loving father and his 18-month-old daughter are going viral for getting involved in “marginally dangerous situations,” thanks to Photoshop.

Abdominal pain is no strange consequence of pregnancy, so when Danielle Janofsky entered a hospital complaining of stomach pain while six months pregnant with her second child, she expected she would soon return home soon.

A 7-year-old girl who lost her hair from Alopecia celebrated "Crazy Hair Day" at school-- with bling.

It took days of trying, but Chicago mom Mary Graham was able to track down the stranger who saved her son's life in a Subway and took off before she could thank him.

An influential U.S. government health panel is dropping its opposition to routine prostate cancer screening in favor of letting men decide for themselves after talking with their doctor.