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The psychedelic drug in "magic mushrooms" can quickly and effectively help treat anxiety and depression in cancer patients, an effect that may last for months, two small studies show.

Humans are a profoundly nosy, voyeuristic species, forever trying to figure out the social goings-on around us.

After the death of a Virginia college student in February, police have now confirmed the cause of death was an accidental opioid overdose.

Now that President-elect Donald Trump has named his pick to oversee the nation's massive healthcare operations, attention turns to who will lead the FDA, with several top U.S. heart doctors expressing strong support for Robert Califf to remain commissioner.

Drinking just a glass of white wine each day raises the risk of deadliest form of skin cancer, a study reveals.

- Treating depression with video conference calls may offer symptom improvement similar to in-person visits, a recent U.S. study suggests.

Most patients who previously were not helped by repeated treatments for multiple myeloma showed strong benefits from a new type of therapy in a small study, and with no worrisome side effects, drugmaker Bluebird Bio Inc said on Wednesday.

Japan has started culling another 230,000 chickens after the discovery of a highly contagious form of bird flu on a farm in the north of the country, the local government said.

Young gay men are the frontline of China's battle to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, with new cases in the group increasing fourfold, one of the fastest rates of any segment of the population.

In the five and a half years she’s undergone chemotherapy, 19-year-old Kyla Pokorny has dealt with all the classic side effects, from nausea to lost hair.

When women want to strengthen their pelvic floor muscles they usually do Kegel exercises, but sex expert Layla Martin recommends a different type of workout to her clients—vaginal weightlifting

China might further relax, or even scrap, restrictions on childbirth to avoid a "low birthrate trap", an influential government think-tank has said, as the country debates how to avert a demographic timebomb.

Wondering why you always get a headache the morning after drinking wine?

Shares in artificial heart maker Carmat slumped on Thursday after France's national drugs agency ordered it to suspend further implants following the death of a patient in October.

Dr. Anthony Fauci doesn't get too excited about the results of animal studies, and he doesn't make house calls.

The first case of sexually transmitted Zika has been detected in the United Kingdom, health officials believe.

A three-parent IVF technique designed to reduce the risk of mothers passing hereditary diseases to their babies is safe enough to be offered to patients in special circumstances, a British expert review panel said on Wednesday.

The latest attempt in the search for an HIV vaccine has begun, as scientists test a beefed-up version of the only shot ever to show a glimmer of protection.

Illinois regulators have yanked a doctor's license for running a cash-only pill mill and prescribing vast amounts of fentanyl and other addictive painkillers to patients in 11 states.

Spoiler: don't do it.