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Lying by omission is so not cool.

It seems that we're a nation of pill-poppers: Nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug, and more than 50 percent take two, according to a 2013 report from the Mayo Clinic.

The wife in the so-called real-life “Fault in Our Stars” couple has died, her family announced on Facebook, mere days after her husband died of the same terminal illness.

A Southern California elementary school student has been found to have leprosy, public health officials said Thursday, though they emphasize that the student's school and community remain safe.

A Wisconsin teenager who drew attention for deciding to end her life instead of continuing a battle with an incurable disease has died.

Surgery patients in Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals are much less likely to die or suffer postoperative complications today than they were 15 years ago, a U.S. study suggests.

The majority of e-cigarette users have "vaped" in a smoke-free environment and most don't view use of the devices as harmful to themselves or others, according to a U.S. study.

Emerging markets have lost their luster for Big Pharma making drug firms ever more dependent on the United States for growth just as American anger over high medicine prices is building.

A drive to give six million severely malnourished children life-saving treatment every year by 2020 - twice the current number - will only succeed if governments prioritize it alongside other killers and treatment costs are cut, hunger experts said on Thursday.

An 8-month-old Chinese boy has undergone the first of three surgeries to correct a rare defect wherein he was born with 31 fingers and toes.

The wife in the so-called real-life “Fault in Our Stars” couple has died, her family announced on Facebook, mere days after her husband died of the same terminal illness.

It’s an age-old public health question — how to preserve people’s ability to make their own choices while encouraging them to make good ones.

The pharmaceutical sales representatives from health care giant Abbott Laboratories had a problem.

For overweight adolescents, experiencing discrimination or bullying in the first year of middle school may contribute to emotional issues seen in the third year by worsening loneliness and anxiety, a U.S. study suggests.

A second South Dakota resident has died of causes related to the West Nile virus this season.

Italy's efforts to combat infertility and reverse one of Europe's lowest birthrates stumbled badly Thursday following an ad campaign denounced as sexist, racist and ignorant of the economic reasons why Italians aren't having babies.

Wang Sanjin was born with his hands and legs reversed at their elbow and knee joints.

A North Texas woman says she has conceived her third set of twins naturally, rounding out her family of 10.

Lyric Knighten, 4, was just trying to play with his grandpa when he jumped on the sleeping man’s stomach and said, “Wake up! Wake up!” Luckily, the older man did— and took himself to the ER with chest pains due to a massive heart attack.

More frequent testing for nickel allergies in children might help keep the allergies from developing, according to a report in Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.