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Smartphones, social media and crowdsourcing all have the potential to help people get faster, better treatment for heart attacks and strokes, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).

Families may be happiest with end-of-life care when their loved ones have cancer or dementia, because those patients are often treated with a focus on comfort and quality of life as they reach their final days, a U.S. study finds.

Health officials in Minnesota are warning about Lyme-infected tick bites that attack the heart and cause sudden cardiac death.

Diagnosing cancer is about to get more accurate, with the help of artificial intelligence

It is a frustratingly common scenario: You fall asleep easily at bedtime but are wide awake at 2 or 3 in the morning.

A campaign to vaccinate 11.6 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo against yellow fever will start on July 20, the health minister said on Monday.

Federal health officials say about $10 million will go to Chicago's Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Health and Hospitals System to help fight drug-resistant superbugs.

Even in Sweden, a country with universal healthcare, disadvantaged people with diabetes are still more likely to die compared to diabetics with social and economic advantages, a new study finds.

The number of children who do not attend school is rising, child marriage has not dropped in decades and millions of young children will die mostly preventable deaths by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed, UNICEF said in a bleak report issued on Tuesday.

Average out-of-pocket costs for hospitalization went up for people in the U.S. with insurance between 2009 and 2013, due largely to increasing deductibles and coinsurance, according to a new study.

The physician who used a non-FDA-approved bone cement during a woman's spinal surgery and the company that ran an illegal test market to promote the dangerous product should be held accountable for her death, a lawyer for the woman's daughter told a jury Monday.

At first, the woman tried to hide her painkiller problem.

No fountain of youth in your backyard?

A tampon able to test to for STIs and cancer might be on the way, according to updates from NextGen Jane, a start-up focused on putting women’s health in their own hands, beginning with so-called “smart” tampons.

With less than three miles to the finish line, Karen Williams was attacked by a black bear during a marathon through the Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico last weekend.

A Michigan woman who was told she was unable to conceive is suing her doctor for wrongful conception.

General Mills issued a voluntary recall for four flavors of its Nature Valley Protein Chewy Bars and Nature Valley Simple Nut Bars over possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

NASA has been studying the effects of plants on air quality for about 20 years and their research confirms: Common houseplants are natural air purifiers.

Scientists have identified a second patient in the United States infected with bacteria carrying the mcr-1 "superbug" gene, which makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics.

Injured teens treated at pediatric trauma centers are less likely to die than those treated at adult centers, a new study suggests.