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To a dog, hearing an upbeat “Good boy!” versus a neutrally toned “Good boy” are distinct understandings.

A 4-year-old fighting terminal liver cancer recently got to forget about her illness for a day when her community rallied to give her bedroom a princess-themed makeover.

Jaxon Buell, the Florida boy born with a rare, incurable defect wherein his head and brain are partially formed, defied another odd recently when he turned 2 years old.

While it’s advised that pregnant women and those considering becoming pregnant consume folic acid supplements to prevent neural tube defects in a fetus, a new study has found that consuming the B vitamin is also associated with reduced rates of congenital heart defects.

In two days of hearings next month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will consider if clinics offering stem-cell treatments should be more closely regulated.

New research raises the intriguing possibility that eating more fruit during pregnancy could boost the intelligence of a normal, healthy baby.

A teenager has died after a love bite from his girlfriend caused a blood clot that quickly led to a stroke.

Hands up: Who’s feasted on a junk food mountain at night, then woken up feeling as wretched as if they’d downed several alcoholic drinks?

When Lia Minkoff had her first child by emergency Caesarean section following 36 hours of labor, she described the process as “horrible.”

You might not qualify for any senior-citizen discounts yet.

When you're bitten by a tick carrying the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, the microbes travel through your bloodstream and can eventually spread to the heart, joints and nervous system.

Do you have your mom's tiny nose?

The soaring price of the EpiPen has garnered controversy recently, but there are alternatives to this well-known allergy treatment device.

In the wake of the news that former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner was caught (once again) sexting with a woman who is not his wife, the country let out a collective sigh.

For women in their 40s, perimenopause can kick in, causing all kinds of problems.

Adult female mosquitoes can pass the Zika virus along to their offspring, U.S. researchers said on Monday, a finding that makes clear the need for pesticide programs that kill both adult mosquitoes and their eggs.

Sandwiches and wraps are the perfect on-the-go lunch option.

You know how annoying it is to have dry, itchy eyes?

The United States has been known to allow some questionable substances to float around in the country’s food system, but some of these “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) food additives are just disturbing.

A Pennsylvania drug company announced Monday that it has launched a clinical trial of an experimental Zika vaccine in Puerto Rico, the part of the U.S. hardest hit by the mosquito-borne virus.