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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.

A 75-year-old man received bad news after being admitted to Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark last week, but his nurse did what she could to make his final hours good ones.

When antibiotics failed to work on Justin Graham, he asked his West Virginia State University baseball coach to help him figure out what was making him ill.

Carissa Gill, a Croydon woman who is 24 weeks pregnant with twins, shared a special moment with her boyfriend on Tuesday while visiting Fetal Vision Imaging in Levittown.

A growing number of younger U.S. adults are being hospitalized for strokes, and a new study suggests that's at least in part because more of them have risk factors like high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.

Bryan Bickell’s 10-year hockey career ended on an emotional note Sunday, after he netted his first shootout goal and helped lift his Carolina Hurricanes to a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.

When Kimberly Lord was a child, an orthopedic doctor told her mother that if she ever got pregnant, the stress would kill her.

A parasitic worm that infects people's brains is turning up more frequently on Maui, and Hawaiian officials are getting worried.

You won’t find it in your local candy store, but soon there may be a new chewing gum that could help save your life.

A 9-year-old Massachusetts boy with a life-threatening illness enjoyed a day he will never forget.

A heartbroken mother has shared an emotional Facebook post addressed to her son Nolan, two months after he died of cancer.

A San Diego woman who died in March had visited a naturopathic practitioner who administered an IV of turmeric solution to treat eczema, authorities said.

Students and staff at Fairfield University came together last week to surprise a sophomore student with a new wheelchair equipped with communicative technology, meaning she could ditch her damaged unit, which was being held together with duct tape.

Two weeks before the six-month lifespan doctors gave Barbara Dorris was up, the Nashville, Tennessee, mother of three hosted a “FUN-eral” at a local park to celebrate her life and courage.

A new mother is sharing an important message about the dangers of what could have been mistaken for a common pregnancy symptom, but was actually the sign of a severe condition that could have killed her baby.

Parents who smoke may contribute to genetic changes in their kids that are associated with the most common type of childhood cancer, a recent study suggests.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday agreed to allow genetic testing company 23andMe to market tests directly to consumers for their predisposition to 10 diseases, including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Celiac disease.

Medtronic Plc said on Thursday it was recalling devices used to manage build-up of the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain due to increased complaints.

One family has just gotten the kind of news every parent dreads, reports the Stir: Their 18-month-old daughter has an extremely rare, incurable, and fatal genetic disorder called Niemann Pick Type C, which is often referred to as childhood Alzheimer's.

In 2015, April Jeanette “AJ Lee” Mendez Brooks laced up her Chuck Taylor boots and stepped into the WrestleMania 31 ring in front of more than 76,000 screaming fans for one of her final performances as a professional wrestler.