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There’s a general consensus that honesty is key to a healthy relationship.

The mosquitoes spreading Zika in Miami are proving harder to eradicate than expected, the nation's top disease-fighter said Tuesday as authorities sprayed clouds of insecticide in the ground-zero neighborhood, emptied kiddie pools and handed out cans of insect repellent to the homeless.

Instead of having heart monitors with noisy alarms near patients' beds in the hospital, it might be better to have off-site technicians do the heart monitoring remotely, a recent study suggests.

WASHINGTON — North Carolina's top public health official acted unethically and possibly illegally by telling residents living near Duke Energy coal ash pits that their well water is safe to drink when it's contaminated with a chemical known to cause cancer, a state toxicologist said in sworn testimony.

Compared to schools with mostly white students, schools with higher numbers of Hispanic, black, and low-income students are more likely to have tobacco retailers and fast-food restaurants in easy reach, researchers say.

The Italian bishops' conference says a young Italian pilgrim died of meningitis after attending the World Youth Day event in Poland, and is urging anyone who used the same hospitality facilities to get vaccinated.

When JoEllen Notte was set to get down and dirty with a hot new conquest, the guy surprised her with his protection of choice.

For patients facing serious illnesses, dying isn't necessarily the thing they dread the most — according to a new survey, a majority of patients consider bowel and urinary incontinence and having to rely on a breathing machine to be fates worse than death.

WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says officials are finding it challenging to eradicate mosquitoes in a part of Miami where 14 people appear to have contracted the Zika virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is awarding more than $16 million to 40 U.S. states and territories as they grapple with the effects of the Zika virus.

SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle City Council has unanimously passed an ordinance to bar the practice of conversion therapy to try to make gay young people straight.

Kevan Chandler and three of his friends have been backpacking in Europe since June.

Patients have better weight loss surgery outcomes in accredited centers, a review of past studies has found.

After helping her two children battle cancer, a Pennsylvania woman now faces the disease herself.

A child has died of anthrax in Siberia in the first fatal outbreak of the bacterial disease reported in Russia in 75 years, the regional governor’s office said on Tuesday.

The role of the female orgasm has been a head-scratcher for centuries.

A Texas family honored a police officer who helped deliver their newborn by giving him professional photos of their daughter wrapped in his uniform.

A British pole dancing and exercise instructor made some unusual moves while she was in labor on Sunday when she posted a video showing her pole dancing skills.

A Russian blogger decided to coat his genitals in plaster, then realized he was overheating and tried to break off the cast with power tools.

Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has spread to many countries in the Americas.