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Is it true that you should wait an hour after eating before you go swimming?

The association between human disease and mosquito bites was suspected for millennia.

Simone Biles, now officially the best gymnast in the world after winning the gold medal in yesterday’s all-around, has a post-meet ritual that is #relatable.

If today's men think that all those video games are helping them maintain optimal hand strength, they'd better think again.

Bayzid Sikder, 4,  loves playing soccer and cuddling with his grandfather, but, in a medical mystery, the Bangladeshi boy looks more like his elder relative than he does a young child.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A Nigerian health official says military helicopters rushed polio vaccines to dangerous parts of the country's northeast, where Boko Haram operates and where two toddlers paralyzed by the virus were recently discovered.

BERLIN — German prosecutors say they're investigating the operator of a clinic near the Dutch border that offers alternative cancer treatment on suspicion of negligent manslaughter and bodily harm after three people who were treated at the facility died.

After 5-year-old girl in China complained of stomach pains, doctors discovered the source— a giant hairball that had hardened in her stomach.

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has reported 1,914 new Zika cases over the past week.

Scientists say the semen  of an Italian man who contracted Zika tested positive for the virus six months after he exhibited symptoms— about twice as long as previously reported cases.

A federal judge later this fall could finalize ConAgra Foods' $11.2 million settlement of a criminal case stemming from the sale of Peter Pan peanut butter tainted with salmonella.

A growing number of surgeries performed with only local anesthesia create new challenges for surgeons, according to interviews with U.S. doctors.

In early July, Betsy Davis emailed her closest friends and relatives to invite them to a two-day party, telling them: “These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness and openness.”

For teens with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), breathing disruptions during sleep may worsen scarring in the liver, according to a new study.

For one aspiring cognitive scientist at the University of Texas at Dallas, the prospect of treating veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury hits close to home— Morgan Luttrell, 40, was deployed nine times to Iraq and Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL, and he has suffered brain trauma himself.

Health officials in Central Ohio are warning residents not to ingest water at public swimming pools after a diarrheal infection has sickened at least 107 people.

A Los Angeles Police Department officer is being celebrated after raising tens of thousands of dollars for two children whose mother is in hospice care after a stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

ATAVIA, Ohio — Officials say a bat that was infected with rabies bit a woman in southwest Ohio.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday denied requests to stop classifying marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical use, leaving users and businesses in limbo after many states have legalized it for medical or recreational purposes.

Nearly one-third of U.S. hospitals fail to offer interpreters to patients who speak limited English, although federal law requires it, a new study shows.