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When crew on an Air China flight asked for a doctor, a medic responded and got creative in his effort to save a passenger who started seizing at 30,000 feet.

A 10-year-old Chinese boy with an eating disorder is on the mend after surgeons removed 12 nails from his stomach that he had swallowed.

Federal prosecutors say an Alabama man who imported a Chinese drug sold as a Viagra substitute has been charged with intentionally defrauding and misleading consumers.

More than nine out of 10 people worldwide live in areas with excessive air pollution, contributing to problems like strokes, heart disease and lung cancer, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

Longtime customers of Target's pharmacies are finding a change in pill bottle design hard to swallow.

The diagnosis begins with the brain being pulled out of the skull.

When little kids need to get a painful injection, music therapy can help them get through the procedure, a new study suggests.

Reports of youth concussions spiked by 71 percent between 2010 to 2015, according to a study of nearly 937,000 health insurance claims gathered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS).

Ramon Mitchell, 25, gained nearly 400 pounds after turning to emotional eating to cope with the back-to-back loss of three family members, but now the once-almost-700-pound man is determined to get his health on track again.

A video of a preschool teacher agreeing to donate one of her kidneys to a dying student is tugging at heartstrings across the nation.

A cure for baldness could be on the horizon after a new drug was found to restore hair growth in around four months.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co said on Tuesday it would evaluate the use of its blockbuster cancer immunotherapy Opdivo in combination with an experimental drug from Nektar Therapeutics to treat multiple cancers.

Many people have trouble understanding conversations in noisy situations.

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More children are likely to survive tuberculosis, the leading infectious disease killer, after Kenya introduces child-friendly medicines on Oct. 1 - the first country in the world to do so.

People with cancer may overestimate the possible benefits to them of participating in an early trial of a new medicine, even after talking with a doctor about what to expect, according to a new study from the U.K. So-called phase 1 trials of experimental treatments are intended to test the drug's safety.

Ten-year-old Anna Thulin-Myge's passport shows what looks like an ordinary Norwegian girl wearing her long, blond hair fastened with a clip.

Kite Pharma Inc on Monday said its experimental CAR T-cell therapy, which helps the immune system fight cancer, was highly effective in treating aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma, although two deaths were related to the drug, according to interim data from a midstage trial.

Flu season is upon us once again, and that means making a decision about whether to get this year’s vaccine.

It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity - mostly walking - helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch potatoes.

Most American teenagers don't get enough exercise, and they often stick with their sedentary ways as they enter adulthood, a U.S. study suggests.