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On this election day, voters in five states will get to decide whether marijuana should be legal to use recreationally.

An employee at a Canadian government-run infectious disease lab may have been exposed to Ebola, health officials said Tuesday.

On Friday, Weill Cornell Medical College offered a seminar to its second-year medical students, one that's been offered only once before.

Into a room of pillows and lavender, an elementary school student walks, enraged.

Supporters of "death with dignity" have succeeded in legalizing medical aid-in-dying in five states by convincing voters, lawmakers and courts that terminally ill patients have the right to die without suffering intractable pain in their final days or weeks.

At least five people have been identified as playing a role in the spread of a deadly disease in the 20th and 21st centuries. Here are their stories.

For many of us, our first exposure to pornography was surreptitious: a sneak peek at someone else's copy of Playboy or the viewing of a worn VHS tape stolen from an older sibling.

Parkinson's disease is a "progressive disorder of the nervous system," according to the Mayo Clinic, that primarily affects a patient's movement. It often starts with a small tremor in the hand or muscle stiffness and gets worse over time. There is no test for Parkinson's, so it is occasionally misdiagnosed.

On average, Americans consume more than 40 gallons of sugary drinks each year. In an effort to change what is apparently an everyday behavior for many people, public health researchers at the University of California, San Francisco took a bold step. They persuaded every vendor on campus to stop selling beverages with added sugar.

If you're a fan of a well-seared steak or a crisp fried samosa, you may need to pace yourself, as a new study has found that you could be increasing your risk of heart disease.

The vast amount of damage that smoking can have on your DNA has been revealed in a new study exploring how tobacco smoke affects cells within the human body.

Eight of nine children exhibiting symptoms of a mysterious illness have been confirmed to be suffering from acute flaccid myelitis, a highly infectious polio-like disease that primarily strikes children, the Washington State Department of Health announced Friday. However, the ninth case, a 6-year old boy who died last Sunday, did not have the disease.

Naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, has become a vital tool in fighting the heroin and opioid epidemic. It can be administered with a syringe-like device that sprays the drug into the nose. But a voluntary recall has been issued by the manufacturer of the device, Teleflex.

Thirteen individuals have become ill from a serious and sometimes fatal fungal infection previously unseen in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The fungus, Candida auris, is known to occur in health care settings such as hospitals and nursing homes.

Former pro football player Kevin Turner has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, a neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated head trauma.

Fifth-grader Grace Szostak at Lincoln Elementary School in Caldwell, New Jersey, has no interest in being president someday. Why? "Gray hair," she said with a laugh. And too much stress.

Nobody likes to lose. (Weight or virginity perhaps being the exception.) Whether it's a game of poker, the affections of another or an election, a loss can feel like an embarrassing stain that won't come out. Or like a medical condition we need to quickly treat with a rematch, with a pint of ice cream or by declaring the whole thing rigged.