The U.N. health agency says reports from national authorities indicate no confirmed laboratory cases of the Zika virus in anyone associated with the Rio Olympics.
For years following the events of September 11, 2001 in lower Manhattan, the disaster and its aftermath may have affected women and their babies who were not even conceived yet, according to a new study.
Paying smokers to quit and giving them more money the longer they avoid cigarettes might help get more people to kick the habit than cessation advice on its own, a recent study suggests.
Cigarettes are often cheaper at the very place that people shop for health supplies and fill medicine prescriptions, according to a new study in California.
The nonprofit Catholic organization SSM Health will provide birth control pills at the 26 clinics inside St. Louis-area Walgreens stores that it began operating Thursday, an SSM spokesman said.
New mom Raye Lee has a message for critics who think giving birth via C-section is easier than vaginal birth, and her defense is going viral on Facebook.
A cheerleader for the Indianapolis Colts traded in her pompoms for a stethoscope after her physician parents were diagnosed with cancer within six months of each other.
A baby in Brazil who became infected with Zika in the womb still had the virus in his body for months after he was born, according to a new report of the case.
The weight loss supplement garcinia cambogia may have the unwanted side effect of inducing mania, which is a feeling of an abnormally high level of energy, agitation and euphoria, according to a recent report of three separate cases
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in Ohio last year, an average of eight per day, as deaths blamed on the powerful painkiller fentanyl again rose sharply and pushed the total overdose fatalities to a record high, the state reported Thursday.
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, are reporting on the "remarkable" recovery of a 25-year-old man in a coma following a simple and brief exposure to low-energy ultrasound targeting the thalamus, the part of the human brain that is typically impaired after a coma.