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The U.S. faces a critical shortage of doctors and other healthcare practitioners willing to make house calls to as many as 4 million frail, homebound Americans, a new study shows.

Seniors who get behind the wheel soon after starting to use narcotic pain relievers have twice the risk of getting into a serious car crash as their peers who use non-opioid painkillers, Swedish researchers say.

Patients with diabetes must work hard every day to count the carbs they consume, to avoid dangerous spikes or dips in blood sugar.

In January 2011, I was a healthy, fit 28-year-old.

At 45 years old, Mark Wahlberg is an Oscar-nominated actor and producer, an entrepreneur, a Catholic, and a father of four who never misses family dinner.

If you suffer from insomnia, you may have chalked it up to a late-night meal, stress or too much screen time.

If you’re like most moms, you feel guilty for just about everything.

Sunday night: it’s the wet blanket of the weekend—and if you’ve ever felt your TGIFs morph into OMGs as Sunday comes to a close, you’re not alone.

Is it true that you should wait an hour after eating before you go swimming?

The association between human disease and mosquito bites was suspected for millennia.

Simone Biles, now officially the best gymnast in the world after winning the gold medal in yesterday’s all-around, has a post-meet ritual that is #relatable.

If today's men think that all those video games are helping them maintain optimal hand strength, they'd better think again.

Bayzid Sikder, 4,  loves playing soccer and cuddling with his grandfather, but, in a medical mystery, the Bangladeshi boy looks more like his elder relative than he does a young child.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A Nigerian health official says military helicopters rushed polio vaccines to dangerous parts of the country's northeast, where Boko Haram operates and where two toddlers paralyzed by the virus were recently discovered.

BERLIN — German prosecutors say they're investigating the operator of a clinic near the Dutch border that offers alternative cancer treatment on suspicion of negligent manslaughter and bodily harm after three people who were treated at the facility died.

After 5-year-old girl in China complained of stomach pains, doctors discovered the source— a giant hairball that had hardened in her stomach.

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has reported 1,914 new Zika cases over the past week.

Scientists say the semen  of an Italian man who contracted Zika tested positive for the virus six months after he exhibited symptoms— about twice as long as previously reported cases.

A federal judge later this fall could finalize ConAgra Foods' $11.2 million settlement of a criminal case stemming from the sale of Peter Pan peanut butter tainted with salmonella.

A growing number of surgeries performed with only local anesthesia create new challenges for surgeons, according to interviews with U.S. doctors.