Most states are seeing an unusually high number of flu patients as the season comes to a close. Meanwhile, the very first human experiments with a new universal flu shot have begun at the National Institutes of Health.
Helen Costa-Giles starts her days like a race car getting off the starting line. By 5:30 a.m., she's in full throttle, doing wind sprints in her driveway and barking exercise orders to her neighbors.
Due to a shortage of certain commonly used blood pressure drugs, the US Food and Drug Administration took the unusual step Thursday of reminding patients that they have access to available -- if tainted -- medicines while a fresh supply of uncontaminated pills is manufactured.
Medics who treated the 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from a cave in Thailand last year credit the drug ketamine with playing a key role in the daring and dangerous mission to extract them.
UC Davis Health in Sacramento, California, sent letters to about 200 people who visited its emergency department on March 17 to notify them that they may have been exposed to measles.
Grandpa is increasingly unsafe. Between 2002 and 2016, the nonfatal assault rate increased 75.4% among American men 60 and older, a new government report estimates. For women, the assault rate increased 35.4% between 2007 and 2016.
Soon after the December 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, in which a gunman murdered 20 children and six adults, a question began to haunt the parents of 6-year-old Avielle Richman, one of the victims that day.
There's a lot to learn when you're getting intimate with a new partner: What turns them on? What's off the table? And what steps will you take toward a safer sexual encounter?
Widespread blackouts struck Venezuela last week. In the dark, Rosa Larrauri's mind raced. The little bit of food she'd managed to buy would go bad, and she wasn't sure how she'd replace it. Her kids would miss school, and her plans to flee the country continued to be delayed.
Health insurer Cigna is launching a program that will cap out-of-pocket expenses at $25 for a 30-day supply of insulin, the company said Wednesday. Last year, patients paid an average of $41.50 a month out of pocket, including deductibles, copays or coinsurance, for the lifesaving diabetes drug, the company said.
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it is investigating a possible connection between e-cigarette use and seizures in younger users.
Air pollution will shorten the life expectancy of children by 20 months on average, with kids in South Asian countries such as India and Pakistan most vulnerable, a new report says.
Testing for cancer in blood, urine or even saliva: That approach has been called the "holy grail" for diagnosing the second leading cause of death in the world, and it has been fueling an area of research that continues to raise eyebrows and questions.
Two babies, aged 8 and 11 months, have been infected in a rare outbreak of measles in Australia as the highly contagious disease makes a comeback in East Asia and the Pacific.
The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing a lower concentration level standard for fluoride in bottled water, yet some scientists and environmental groups believe that the proposed limit is still too high and poses a danger to human health.
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it will hold a public hearing next month to discuss developing a regulatory framework for the use of CBD in consumer products, including foods and beverages.
