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Behind the double-mastectomy scars that run across her bare chest, she had a story to tell.

A young woman born without a left arm found her true self on the dance floor.

Younger women with breast cancer in Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, and South Dakota are increasingly more likely to choose to have both their affected and healthy breasts removed compared to others, a new study finds.

For the second year in a row, Georgia lawmakers passed a controversial bill that allows licensed gun owners to carry concealed firearms on public college and university campuses.

Little Leaguers playing in any of the parks in New York City this spring will be given a free automated external defibrillator, thanks to a new law.

A multi-state E. coli outbreak linked to now-recalled soy nut butter products is continuing to make people sick, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt denied a petition Wednesday requesting that the agency ban the use of the chlorpyrifos on all United States food crops. Chlorpyrifos, a product of Dow Agrosciences, is an insecticide proved effective against mosquitoes, cockroaches and fire ants, which has been registered for use in the US since 1965.

A mom and dad in Georgia are suing the Georgia Department of Health because they refused to let the couple give their daughter the surname "Allah."

Elizabeth Cohen breaks down how vaccines work, why they keep us safe and why they're most effective when everyone gets them.

Experts predict a dangerous pandemic will occur in the next 20 to 30 years. CNN Films' "Unseen Enemy" premieres Friday, April 7 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

For as long as I can remember, my mother has badgered me about my posture.

Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards released to CNN the unpublished results of a study that show the Flint water crisis most likely caused the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires disease that killed at least 12 people since 2014.

Your oral health could be a strong indicator of your overall health. Gum disease and tooth loss are connected to a higher risk of early death in women past the age of menopause, a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association finds.

The numbers are startling -- in 2015, 52,404 people died from drug overdoses according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sixty-three percent of those deaths involved an opioid.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved on Tuesday the first treatment for a rare form of multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disorder in which the body's own immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will take on an advisory role to help figure out ways the Trump administration can fight the opioid epidemic.

For the past two months, I have been a changed man. It is hard to fully describe, except to say my mood is mostly sunny and more patient than usual.

In early August 2015, Chris Lihosit fell ill with an exhausting, dehydrating and pyjama-soaking fever that mysteriously disappeared two days later.

The likely source of a deadly mold outbreak that started in 2014 at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospitals was the hospitals' linen provider, according to findings shared in emails exclusively obtained by CNN.

Just because kids today are web savvy doesn't necessarily mean they're media savvy. And in this age of "fake news," that's a real concern. So, schools are teaching them how to fight back.