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Sweating is the body’s natural way of cooling down – but if you perspire more than normal, or when you’re not being physically active, it could be a sign of another medical condition

An outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has forced a New Jersey high school to postpone its season-opening football game.

The CDC documented the first AIDS cases in 1981.

The trial was a small one, but a new study is raising hope that a new drug can fight a particularly deadly form of pancreatic cancer.

Jerika Bolen made it very clear earlier this year that she was going to attend her prom, spend a final summer with her mom, and then end her life.

Air pollution has been linked to strokes, heart attacks, autism, and raised blood pressure.

In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released estimates of how many people in the country die every year from antibiotic resistant infections: 23,000.

Here’s a shocking fact about your food: A company can decide for itself that a chemical is safe to use in food and doesn’t have to tell the Food and Drug Administration, the agency charged with protecting our food supply.

One of the 11-day-old twin brothers whose first hug was captured in a recent viral photo has died of a rare disorder, his family announced Wednesday.

Josiah Cooper-Pope, born 15 weeks premature, did fine in the neonatal intensive care unit for the first 10 days of his life.

A California mother welcomed her newborn on Labor Day after her husband delivered the unexpected child in the hallway of their Burbank, California, home.

A North Dakota family is celebrating the arrival of their third child who happens to share the same birth date as his two older siblings.

Baton Rouge police officer Matthew Gerald was killed in the line of duty on July 17, but his legacy lives on in his two daughters— and one more child on the way.

Meet the morbidly obese model who tips the scales at 700 pounds … and says she wants to become the fattest woman in the world.

A South Carolina sheriff’s detective was in Costa Rica for his daughter’s wedding when he suffered a fatal heart attack after the father-daughter dance.

A Los Angeles man who ordered a Lyft not only got a ride, but found a new friend in his driver, a single mother who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

Several hundred American service personnel who say they became sick from radiation after participating in relief operations for the 2011 tsunami that set off the Fukushima nuclear disaster are now getting high-profile support in Japan.

Scientists are developing dust-sized wireless sensors implanted inside the body to track neural activity in real-time, offering a potential new way to monitor or treat a range of conditions including epilepsy and control next-generation prosthetics.

People with high blood pressure who monitor it regularly at home may be getting incorrect readings with devices that take measurements on the wrist, a new study suggests.

In the year after a heart attack, people younger than age 55 often have difficulties with sexual function, according to a study of patients in the U.S. and Spain.