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Older people who break a bone are often receiving medications that can increase the risk of a fracture - and even after an accident, less than 10 percent of them stop taking those drugs, according to a new study.

Max, a poodle and cocker spaniel mix, went to the groomer for a routine visit, but the 7-year-old rescue never came home after he was soaked in chemicals at the back of the store.

Psychologists have long thought that people tend to underestimate the odds of something bad happening to them and overestimate the chances of good things happening to them

Scientists are developing an edible form of packaging which they hope will preserve food more effectively and more sustainably than plastic film, helping to cut both food and plastic waste.

Dr. Jack Gilbert wants to make our hospitals dirty.

You don't have to be a lexicographer to have a pretty ample lexicon—but your word knowledge still may not be as ample as you think.

The rate at which women die in Texas from pregnancy-related complications is higher than in any other US state—or even in the rest of the developed world, reports the Guardian.

Few studies of surgery patients enroll similar numbers of men and women despite laws aimed at dissuading sex bias in research, according to a new study.

Studies have suggested that the time of day one receives a flu shot can actually affect how effective it is, and now University of Cambridge researchers are reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that our immune systems are better at fighting off viruses and pathogens at certain times of day as well.

A 1-year-old from Michigan was given the name Ruby Pearl because she's a "rare jewel," dad TJ Bunker tells People, which reports on the poignant story of the baby and her family as they deal with the litany of serious conditions she's been dealing with since she was born.

About 70 people have died after receiving treatment at a German cancer clinic where authorities were investigating three deaths already linked to the center earlier this month.

As officials scramble to contain an outbreak of the Zika virus in two Miami neighborhoods, the more than 7,600 students who attend nine schools in those outbreak zones returned to school Monday to begin their first day of classes.

A woman who turned 119 on Sunday and has made it through two World Wars said she hopes to survive long enough to be named the world’s oldest person.

A 42-year-old man who allegedly had an overwhelming urge to consume metal is reportedly recovering after surgeons in India removed 40 foldable knives from his stomach.

After two people in Minnesota were bitten by a fox, officials captured the suspected animal found it positive for rabies.

The older that seniors feel relative to their actual age, the greater their odds of cognitive decline in the coming years, a recent study finds.

A Washington animal shelter has launched a campaign with a local Starbucks that banks on caffeine lovers opening their hearts to a fellow java fan, who happens to have four legs and a wagging tail.

Lucy Marie Perkins, who was born Aug. 16, is one of a kind to her parents.

Nearly a week after Ryan Lochte and three other U.S.

Donald A. Henderson, who headed the World Health Organization vaccination effort that wiped out smallpox in 1977 and later became a U.S. bioterrorism expert, has died from complications following a hip fracture, officials said on Sunday.