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A California cashier’s simple good deed for a special needs boy is tugging at heart strings across the nation.

Animal enthusiasts will get a special treat on Feb. 5— not when they tune into the Super Bowl, but to the annual Puppy Bowl,  where they’ll watch team Ruff square off against team Fluff.

A transgender man has sued a Catholic hospital in New Jersey after he says it cited religion in refusing to allow his surgeon to perform a hysterectomy procedure.

With a goal to better study how organs form during embryonic development, researchers have successfully used stem cells to generate human stomach tissues in a petri dish that produce acid and digestive enzymes.

If you’ve ever forgotten why you just entered a room, you know how fickle memory can be.

With age, a person’s social circles expand, so the ability to tell people apart—a cognitively difficult task—becomes more important.

Symptoms of dry-eye disease were more common in children who spent more time on smartphones and less time outdoors than other young people, a study in BMC Ophthalmology found.

A woman who could taste words and smell sounds was cured after being struck by lightning— only for it to return.

A South Korean court sentenced the former head of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser to seven years in prison Friday after the company's disinfectant for humidifiers killed scores of people and left hundreds with permanent lung damage.

Pedestrian deaths spiked to a 25-year high in Minnesota in 2016, illustrating what's been a grim upward trend across the country in recent years.

A federal jury says DuPont should pay an additional $10.5 million in damages to an Ohio man who says he got testicular cancer because of a chemical used to make Teflon.

Two dozen high school football players died in recent years from traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, and the annual death count has been growing slightly, according to a new study.

Alternative medicine practitioners like homeopaths and acupuncturists may claim to treat allergies or asthma, but a study in Canada found that many there offer remedies that are unproven or even dangerous.

Research from Spain confirms that senior women are three times more likely than their male peers to fracture a hip but also finds risk factors differ for men and women.

Experts say it's all about your approach.

Among the many issues that leaders in this country must prioritize in order to restore dignity to our communities is the care and wellbeing of our mentally disabled citizens.

A viral Facebook post claims a 2-year-old boy died after his mother applied Vicks VapoRub to his skin, but the manufacturer and authorities in U.S. and Mexico say they have no record of such a death.

This wasn't your usual hangover.

President Obama and Republican leaders are going head-to-head on Capitol Hill over the fate of ObamaCare, with Republicans vowing to move to quickly scrape the law.

If you haven’t been paying attention to the reports on the alleged cyberattacks launched by Russia and other foreign nations, it’s time you tuned in.