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Children with disabilities spend most of the school day sitting and get very little exercise, even during recess and gym class, suggests a study from Hong Kong.

Louise Delage joined Instagram on Aug. 1 and quickly racked up nearly 65,000 followers with her pictures of a seemingly glamorous life in France.

One in five cases of chemical-induced liver damage come from herbal and dietary supplements, a research review concludes.

Women who have heard for years that they face a declining sex life can take heart in new research that says sex gets better with age.

When researchers announced in September that they’d identified “starchy” as the sixth taste, it didn’t exactly blow any minds.

In 2012, Ronda Rousey said she likes to have “as much sex as possible” before a big fight because it boosts her testosterone.

Men conceived using a common fertility treatment appear to pass lower-than-average fertility onto their sons, reports New Scientist.

Most women in a new U.S. survey said their primary care physician was involved in their breast cancer care during treatment, and rated their doctor's engagement and communication levels as high.

Going to the right hospital for heart attack care could add a year to your life, a new study suggests.

Scientists are narrowing in on why many of us find certain foods so irresistible.

Even if your daughters don't pay much attention to politics, they'd be hard-pressed to have missed Donald Trump's attack of a former Miss Universe's weight or comments about a 400-pound hacker.

Predominantly Buddhist Thailand will relax its strict rules against abortion to cover fetuses with proven birth defects linked to the Zika virus, health officials said on Thursday, doubling to 24 weeks a deadline for the procedure.

Globally, people's health is improving and life expectancy is rising, but progress is far from universal with chronic diseases bringing long-term illness and causing seven out of 10 deaths, according to research published on Thursday.

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola in 2014 while caring for patients in Sierra Leone, was taken back to hospital on Thursday with a police escort, the Press Association (PA) reported.

The owner of an Ohio bridal shop that went out of business after an Ebola scare has sued a Texas hospital, saying it failed to train and prevent a nurse from contracting the virus from a hospital patient.

Tracheoesophageal voice prosthetic devices often last less than three months before they need to be replaced, which is a shorter lifespan than previously reported, according to a new study.

The parents of a teen girl with a peanut allergy who died in their arms after she ate a snack at a camp have reached a $15 million settlement with the city of Sacramento, they announced Wednesday.

Neither track nor motor vehicles travel the mountains of Afghanistan, requiring soldiers to traverse them by foot while carrying the full weight of their gear.

BRCA is a powerful tool to estimate cancer risk, but it's not a crystal ball. And I don't want the results of one imperfect test to propel me into surgery.

If you think your fast food fries are fried in nothing but pure oil, think again.