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A baby born this month in Texas weighed nearly 15 pounds, breaking records for the hospital.

Following the deaths of two migrant children in US Customs and Border Protection custody, the agency's leader reached out to an influential group of pediatricians for guidance.

It was a Friday afternoon like any other. I ate lunch, dropped off my dry cleaning, then stopped by my local Target to pick up some prescriptions.

Akihiko Kondo doesn't have the air of a rebel. This year, however, the bespectacled school administrator bucked conventional norms.

Intersex people will be able to register as "divers," which roughly translates to miscellaneous, on birth certificates, instead of having to choose between male or female.

Stay calm.

When Katsunori and Kaori Osaka had their first child, they were living in a cramped flat in Nagoya, a city of more than 2 million people in northern Japan.

Flu activity is increasing in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday.

A growing number of children and adolescents in the United States are dying from opioid poisonings, a new study shows.

Patricia Deesy, a registered nurse, is worried about the drinking water in her home state of North Carolina.

Kip Burgess was relieved last year when pharmaceutical giant Amgen overnighted him a $2,976 check to help pay for his go-to arthritis drug, Enbrel.

Days after a Guatemalan boy died in US custody on Christmas Eve, infectious disease experts say it appears Felipe Alonzo-Gomez likely had the flu, a potentially deadly illness that can often be treated if caught early enough.

People were curious about the keto diet, ALS and endometriosis in 2018.

A surgery center is warning more than 3,000 patients that they may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens if they had a procedure at its ambulatory in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, between January and September 2018.

Attempting to beat back the rise of vaping among teens, the city of Somerville, Massachusetts, voted earlier this month to restrict where e-cigarettes can be sold -- limiting them, and menthol cigarettes, to the shelves of tobacco stores only open to customers 21 and older.

Keeping up with the furor that has followed Johnson & Johnson, India's drug regulators have been collecting new test samples of baby powder.

As the government shutdown loomed over the holidays, heads of federal agencies and departments overseeing health and public assistance services tweeted that, regardless of what was happening in Washington, they were attending, as much as possible, to business as usual.

With the end of the year approaching, it's not uncommon to start thinking about health goals for the new year, like losing weight, eating healthier, exercising and quitting smoking. But though we may have good intentions, choosing January 1 to make promises to get on a healthier track year-round doesn't always work. In fact, according to a 2017 Marist poll, about a third of people who make a New Year's resolution fail to stick with it.

Thailand's interim parliament voted to allow the use of medical cannabis, one of the senators who worked on the bill told CNN on Tuesday. Recreational use of the drug remains illegal.