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The latest installment in a joint investigation by The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity into the political influence of the opioid industry.

The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity investigated how pharmaceutical companies are using their political clout to push a new form of opioids as their answer to the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.

A 2-year-old Atlanta boy who was born during a 2014 snowstorm is learning how to play like other children after a traumatic birth damaged his spinal cord and paralyzed his left arm.

This is another installment in an investigation by The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity examining the politics behind the nation's opioid epidemic.

On a sweltering September day in 2011, Turia Pitt was blasting Tupac Shakur and running a 62 mile ultra-marathon in the Australian Outback when the unthinkable happened— flames from a “freak firestorm” melted her face and ravaged 65% of her body.

The conjoined California twins that were separated last week following a 17-hour marathon surgery have been reunited for the first time since the operation.

Britain's fertility regulator has approved controversial techniques allowing doctors to create babies using the DNA from three people - what it called a "historic" decision to help prevent a small number of children from inheriting potentially fatal diseases from their mothers.

Pregnant women should consider postponing travel to Brownsville, Texas, because of concerns about mosquitoes there spreading the Zika virus, federal health officials said Wednesday.

Competition is cutthroat among Japan's thousands of pop idol wannabes, but a unique concept is winning fame for a band of "chubby" girls deploying their cheeky cuteness to combat prejudices against obesity.

South Korea's agriculture ministry raised the country's bird flu alert status to the highest level for the first time on Thursday as the disease has spread quickly nationwide.

Q&A with Dr. Manny: I've been thinking of getting a vasectomy, but a friend of mine told me it could increase my risk for prostate cancer. Is this true?

Health experts often assume that blood pressure measured in a medical office or hospital may be higher than usual, thanks to the anxiety brought on from being in a doctor's office (a phenomenon known as white-coat hypertension).

As if we needed an excuse.

Voluntary food recalls are a shockingly common occurrence within the American food system.

Roughly six percent of women in the United States who were infected with the Zika virus during pregnancy had fetuses or babies with birth defects, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

In 2011, a Hong Kong man lost the use of his lower body in a serious car crash.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it had approved Pfizer Inc's Eucrisa ointment to treat mild-to-moderate eczema, or atopic dermatitis, in patients two years and older.

U.S. health officials have rejected an attempt by a Swedish company to remove several health warnings from its smokeless tobacco pouches, though regulators left open the possibility for other labeling changes it seeks.

There is plenty of speculation about what kind of legacy President-elect Donald Trump will leave, but judging by what I have seen from him already in his nominees for Cabinet positions, I feel confident in predicting that he will bolster health care for Medicaid patients around the country.

More than two dozen people were treated by paramedics after showing symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning at the River Ridge Tap House restaurant in Clemmons.