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Short-selling firm Muddy Waters said in a legal brief filed on Monday that outside cyber security experts it hired have validated its claim that St. Jude Medical Inc cardiac implants are vulnerable to potentially life-threatening cyber attacks.

While studies focusing on retired professional football players and those who reached collegiate level of play have reported on the damaging effects the sport can have on the brain, new research focusing on children has found that playing just a single season of youth football can put them at risk for measurable brain changes – even if they never received a clinical diagnosis of a concussion.

Have you ever noticed children secretly counting on their fingers?

A 36-year-old woman in northern Egypt hasn’t left her home in 25 years due to her size— she weighs 1,102 pounds.

Jehovah's Witnesses are defending their ban on blood transfusions after the death of a new mom in Quebec this month.

The mother of conjoined twins separated about a week ago at a New York hospital was able to hold one of her sons for the first time after doctors removed his breathing tube.

A 4-year-old boy is being hailed as a “superhero” for his quick thinking when his mother had an epileptic seizure.

People with type 1 diabetes often develop other autoimmune disorders, such as thyroid and gastrointestinal diseases, and a recent study yields new information about this link.

A 21-year-old man who became suddenly blind as a child recently fulfilled a lifelong dream when he met Mickey Mouse at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

Before 29-year-old Brittany Maynard chose to end her life in November 2014 amid a battle with terminal, incurable brain cancer, she made a specific request to her husband: She wanted him, and no one else, to tell her story after she died.

Thinking your child should be a star may be common among mothers, but for one Georgia woman, making her son famous is about sharing his beauty.

It is almost universally known as “breaking the seal” — the theory that once you go to the bathroom on a night out, you will be relieving yourself at regular intervals for the rest of the evening.

In what his family is equating to a horror movie, an Arizona man fell ill and, four days later, died from a flesh-eating bacteria infection.

That’s one cute kidney stone.

Stephanie Packer wants to be the face of a Right to Live movement — for as long as she draws breath.

Heart attack survivors who participate in cardiac rehabilitation programs may survive longer, but feel no healthier, than they would without this follow-up care, a U.S. study suggests.

The increased risk of stroke that comes with smoking may extend to nonsmokers who live in the same household and breathe in secondhand smoke, a U.S. study suggests.

I’m not the kind of guy you’d expect to see getting Botox.

Between the time devoted to insurance paperwork and large patient panels to keep up with financial pressures, most doctors have just 15 minutes to spend with each patient.

Your body has many ways of warning you that the level of stress it is under is not sustainable.