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No one knows -- or may ever know -- exactly how many people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. But an increasingly tall stack of evidence indicates the official government estimate -- 64 deaths -- misses the mark. By a long shot.

Two women were found unresponsive in a car along with the likely culprit -- four coolers of dry ice -- Friday morning in Pierce County, Washington, CNN affiliate KOMO reports.

When a group of concerned citizens started protesting plastic packaging at supermarkets, they had no idea that their actions would spark a global movement.

A new cluster of Ebola virus cases emerge in an eastern province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, just about a week after the country declared that its most recent outbreak had ended.

After two people in Guangzhou, China, were admitted to the hospital with headaches and other neurological symptoms, doctors pinpointed an infection with a unusual backstory: They had eaten raw centipedes, according to a report published Monday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

A multistate salmonella outbreak linked to pasta salad sold by Midwestern grocery store chain Hy-Vee has sickened 79 individuals, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.

Thirty-seven children die each year as a result of being left in a hot car according to the National Safety Council. Every death seems to prompt a discussion on ways to prevent these tragedies by reminding drivers of their precious backseat cargo.

Consumers have been warned by federal health officials not to purchase over two dozen salad and wrap products available in major grocery chains due to concerns about possible parasite contamination.

A grocery store employee is being lauded for helping a teen with autism stock shelves in a fridge.

We were the first birthday party in my son's class this year, and as per the custom, we sent out an invitation free of any mention of presents.

An online textbook, which blames Holocaust victims for failing to tap into their strength, is required reading for nearly 19,000 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students.

What does a child's brain, which repaired itself after a full third of the right hemisphere was surgically removed, teach us about all brains?

On Sunday, Michigan's lieutenant governor called a state of emergency for Kalamazoo County due to water contaminated with chemicals at more 20 times the threshold set by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

New findings presented last week at the 22nd International AIDS Conference reveal how President Donald Trump's expansion of the so-called global gag rule -- which restricts US health assistance funding to non-US NGOs that offer abortion services -- is likely to have widescale negative effects on the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Consider, for a moment, the paper cut. It happens suddenly and entirely unexpectedly, usually just as you are finally getting somewhere on that task you had been putting off.