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In the only U.S. city confirmed to have mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, some residents say they'd rather be bitten than be exposed to droplets of chemicals sprayed from planes to kill the bugs.

Early results from a crucial case-control study in Brazil have confirmed a direct causal link between Zika virus infection in pregnant women and the brain damaging birth defect microcephaly in their babies, scientists said on Thursday.

Brain cancer is now the deadliest form of childhood cancer in the United States, surpassing leukemia as treatment advances have allowed doctors to cure many blood-related cancers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.

A woman’s libido is complicated.

Jen Kraemer-Smith and Andrea Delbanco's lives were totally in sync: After meeting 11 years ago while working at the same magazine, they both married around the same time, bought houses in New Jersey around the same time, and gave birth to their first children within 3 weeks of each other.

Women who enter menopause before age 45 are more likely to have cardiovascular problems and to die younger than women who enter menopause later in life, according to a new analysis.

This is our brand new freezer,” Don Humphries said.

On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton’s physician issued a statement summarizing the Democratic presidential nominee’s recent pneumonia diagnosis.

A desperate man adapted tools to perform surgery on himself after the operation he needed was canceled twice.

Amid mounting pressure from republicans and democrats, presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have released information regarding their current medical statuses.

Fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks, the jury is still out on whether firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center site have increased odds of developing cancer, a U.S. study suggests.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a pill that combines aspirin and the acid-fighting drug omeprazole to guard against gastric ulcers in patients who require daily aspirin.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is collaborating with Intel Corp to develop a wearable device and machine learning platform for Huntington disease patients, Teva said on Thursday.

What do prisoners and CEOs have in common?

If you're given a terminal prognosis by your doctor and you ask how much longer you have left, chances are, you'll get an overestimate of your remaining days on Earth, a new overview of research finds.

An old-school form of discipline remains popular in Alabama.

After giving birth on Sept. 18, 2011, Jara Herron was basking in the joy of motherhood, but 10 days afterward, as she went to pick up her newborn for nursing, a heavy weight overcame her chest, her left arm went numb, she vomited and, after screaming for help, everything went black.

When health insurance changes after a heart transplant, so do survival odds, according to a U.S. study.

Parents of children with cancer face difficult decisions, and a new study suggests that about one in six of them look back on some of their choices with a great deal of regret.

The failure of British authorities to bring one successful prosecution for female genital mutilation in more than 30 years is a "national scandal", lawmakers said on Thursday calling for greater action against professionals not reporting the practice.