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Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating degenerative brain disorder that leads to problems with memory, cognition, and overall mental ability.

Sleep irregularities may be tied to a variety of health problems, such as diabetes and obesity, that can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, a leading U.S. doctors group says.

Between 2006 and 2012, antibiotic use in hospitals in general did not change, and the use of a class of drugs tied most closely to antibiotic resistance actually increased, according to a new study.

For as long as she can remember, 20-year-old Olivia Ames has taken multiple baths daily to try to relieve her itchy, scaly skin that can’t be soothed with creams, and even after undergoing two leg surgeries to improve her movement, she still must use canes to walk.

On Wednesday, a Reddit user named DisregardThisOrDont posted an incredibly powerful selfie, Stuff reports.

Federal regulators on Monday granted tentative approval to the first drug for muscular dystrophy, following an intense public campaign from patients and doctors who pushed for the largely unproven medication.

According to accident reports and Twitter, playing Pokemon GO has led to distraction and at least some car crashes or near-crashes.

U.S. health officials said Monday they were ending their strongest warning to pregnant women to stay out of Miami's Wynwood arts district.

If drug-resistant infections in people and animals are allowed to spread unchecked, some 28 million people will fall into poverty by 2050, and a century of progress in health will be reversed, the World Bank said on Monday.

A Michigan mom has shared a recording of her daughter giving herself a pep talk in front of the mirror, and the video of the enthusiastic young girl has begun going viral on Facebook.

They've been likened to the fictional couple battling cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, and there will be no fairy tale ending for Dalton and Katie Prager.

A farm in Albany, Oregon, is offering yoga classes with goats.

Backyard chicken-keeping is on the rise, and the CDC now finds it necessary to warn people that puckering up to poultry is a big no-no.

When he was 5, Chris Jones almost died drowning at a hotel pool in Columbus, Ohio, but officer James Poole Sr. saved him.

A 25-year-old woman diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor in January 2015 died Friday, one day before her wedding, People reports.

The word swagger doesn't just describe the biomechanics of a person's gait.

The family of a high school football player who died following a head injury has met the four people he saved through organ donation.

Jim Platzer was forced to give up his job as president of a Fortune 500 company after being diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition that’s left him with just 5 percent of his field of vision, but he hasn’t let it rob him of his favorite hobby: flying.

Getting inmates to behave themselves is as simple as having them learn how to say “om,” according to a Swedish study.

Before he suited up to play against the New York Giants in 2012, Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman Eben Britton took an ice bath followed by a hot shower.