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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers will study some U.S. athletes for Zika during the summer Olympics and Paralympics in Brazil, to better understand how the virus infects.

A Connecticut boy who has undergone multiple surgeries on his eyes has finally had his vision fully restored.

U.S. health regulators said on Tuesday they approved a stent by Abbott Laboratories that is the first designed to be absorbed into the bloodstream after it is implanted.

When college rowing buddies Bojan Mandaric and Brogan Graham vowed to stay in shape post-graduation, they didn't want to shovel out hundreds to join a gym or even drop $20 for a yoga class.

A young boy who suffered from as many as 20 daily twitches in his face was actually infected by a parasite in his brain, doctors said.

A teenager in the UK who showed up at a hospital's pediatric unit complaining of stomach pain ended up getting an appendectomy—but it was something else entirely that had caused her distress, per an article in BMJ Case Reports.

The term "drunkorexia" has been used for several years to describe a particularly risky type of behavior on college campuses—students skip meals or exercise intensely before drinking, or deliberately purge during or afterward.

A modern version of a procedure that used to be done after a miscarriage may dramatically boost fertility rates.

A former coffee farmer who says Monsanto's widely used Roundup herbicide caused her cancer scored a win last week when a federal judge rejected the company's request to dismiss the case.

Nearly everyone shrinks with age.

The Food and Drug Administration has recently approved a host of new weight-loss interventions that make millions more people eligible for obesity treatments.

Hilary Topper, a media consultant and triathlete, was intrigued when a trainer approached her at the gym.

Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is adopting virtual reality technology to train its obstetrics and gynecology residents in surgical techniques.

The Swiss army is working hard to fend off its latest foe: bedbugs.

The U.N. health agency says it and national authorities are investigating whether three cases of the Zika virus discovered in Guinea Bissau are of the same strain as the one behind outbreaks linked to head and brain abnormalities in Brazil and elsewhere.

It took more than 40 years for Leonard Barefield to finally get to choose where he lived.

Keaton Johnson, 5, has cerebral palsy and requires a specially designed wheelchair to get around.

It’s been 10 months since pharmacist Edmund Funaro Jr. completed a training program to be able to prescribe the opiate overdose reversal medication naloxone, and yet he has not written one prescription for the drug.

Women with slightly elevated blood pressure during pregnancy could be more likely to develop so-called metabolic syndrome later, Chinese researchers say.

People who wear "bite counters" on their wrists while eating tend to cut down on how much they consume during a meal, a study suggests.