It's hard enough to have a 5-year-old son battling brain cancer. But when Kelly Incandela learned that a woman apparently was going around Brooklyn in New York City fraudulently asking for donations for a funeral for her son, sadness quickly morphed into something else.
Volunteers from New York City Medics, a humanitarian aid group providing emergency medical care, join a frontline clinic just a few minutes from the battle for west Mosul.
Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are struggling to understand why younger populations continue to suffer asbestos-related medical issues despite efforts to reduce exposure from the toxic mineral.
Fashion retailer Zara is urging women to "Love your curves," but that body-positive message may be overshadowed by the slender models featured in the campaign.
Trying to mimic the early stages of reproduction, Cambridge University researchers cultivated two types of mouse stem cells in a Petri dish and watched an embryo emerge -- one that closely resembled a natural mouse embryo in its architecture, its development process and its ability to assemble itself.
The proportion of Zika-related birth defects during 2016 was nearly 20 times higher than the number seen during the pre-Zika years, according to a new report from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cosmetic procedures are still increasingly popular in the United States, and a new report shows that most Americans are going under the knife to either change their faces or get rid of fat.
What's the most popular plastic surgery procedure in the United States? A new report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reveals the top five reasons why Americans went under the knife last year.
President Donald Trump used his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday to, among other things, promise to "slash the restraints" put on drug development by the Food and Drug Administration and across the government so the "slow and burdensome (drug) approval process" doesn't hinder medical advances.
It's a well-known paradox --the men and women that make us laugh for a living often struggle with mental health challenges off stage, here's what the science says about it.
Over the past few decades, millions of people around the world have distanced themselves from gluten, eliminating gluten sources from their diets, even if their doctors haven't recommended they do so.
Sarah Hughes underwent an experimental stem cell therapy in Mexico a few years ago to treat a rare type of juvenile arthritis. Now, she plans to attend President Trump's congressional speech.
Neonatologist Gurvir Khurana had only read about it in textbooks. Seeing it in real life has been a shock: baby after baby born severely anemic, lungs filled with fluid, bodies covered with rashes.
