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The American Medical Association (AMA) has just adopted an official policy statement about street lighting: cool it and dim it.

Can you get Zika from kissing? Theoretically, yes, as long the virus is active and the kiss is more than a quick smooch.

Julianna Snow, the 5-year-old girl who sparked an international conversation about wrenchingly difficult decisions for terminally ill children, died Tuesday.

Because there is no safe level of blood lead concentrations, it's time for new legal requirements to remove lead from housing, child care facilities and school water fountains, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a new policy statement.

There are camps for kids with cancer, but Camp Kesem brings the camp experience back to children whose parents are the ones impacted by the disease.

Is it possible to eat something healthy at a fast food chain such as Dunkin' Donuts?

The images that come to mind when thinking of green tea are likely associated with calmness, purity and relaxation.

The road to recovery for the dozens of injured survivors of the Orlando shooting is likely be long and painful, if they can ever fully recover.

You don't have to be a werewolf to feel restless when the full moon rises.

For the past five years, my number has been listed on an eating disorder help hotline, the same hotline I called years earlier when my boyfriend, who found me hunched over the toilet and rocking back and forth on my knees, said he couldn't be with me anymore. I was desperate and hopeless and out of options, but somehow, I made it through.

Astronauts put their lives at risk every time they are launched into space in the name of research, push the boundaries of the human body by living in zero gravity and plummet back to Earth in what retired astronaut Scott Kelly has described as a "giant fireball." But NASA doesn't have the authority to provide retired astronauts with health care.

Botulism is believed to be the cause of an outbreak of severe illness that has affected 20 inmates at a federal prison in Mississippi, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday. More than a dozen inmates remain hospitalized. Test results for the toxin are pending. Investigators believe the inmates became ill as a result of drinking homemade alcohol.

The loss of so much life in the Orlando shootings is exceptional, but the kind of bullet wounds and the extreme nature of the physical trauma that people suffered in this incident is not as uncommon as it was even a decade ago, according to new study. And it is time for this "hidden public health issue" to come out of the shadows, the authors argue.

Every parent knows that children need sufficient sleep to stay healthy and do well in school. But exactly how many hours of sleep do children of different ages need per day?

I was around age 6 when a troublesome fact began to surface in my life. I wasn't learning how to read along with the other kids, and it became a source of incredible frustration for my mother and my teachers.

As Francesca Cesari photographed a friend with her newborn several years ago, they paused so the crying infant could breast-feed in a quiet, darkened room.

There's a worldwide shortage of donor organs. Some people spend years on a transplant list, and others lose their lives while waiting.

You know you've had that moment -- that sudden desire -- to eat something with no rational reason.

Four years after a life-threatening bout with flesh-eating bacteria that resulted in the loss of both hands, one leg and her remaining foot, Aimee Copeland is comfortable in her new body. On Monday, Copeland posted a picture to Facebook of her vacation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, smiling on the beach, scars and all.