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If you or your sexual partner are traveling to an area where Zika is circulating, you should abstain or carefully use safe sex measures for a full six months after you return, the World Health Organization announced today, even if Zika is not present in your home community.

A new study has found that certain toxic pollutant particles could enter the human brain and potentially increase the risk of developing brain conditions, such as Alzheimer's.

Travis Rudolph is a wide receiver at Florida State University. In a school lunchroom, he could probably sit anywhere he wanted, and it would automatically become the cool kids' table.

With flu season just around the corner, parents face a difficult moment with their kids. The American Academy of Pediatrics updated its annual flu season guidelines today, withdrawing its recommendation of the child-friendly FluMist for this year. The reason? This summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deemed FluMist subpar, leaving only one option for parents and pediatricians: a flu shot.

"My daughter Samantha got glasses in second grade," says Yiwen Lee, a mother of two and an airline customer service representative. Calling from the road after dropping her kids off at school, Lee explained how within a year, her daughter needed to wear glasses all the time, her eye doctor even recommending a stronger prescription.

Chocolate lovers, your beloved snack may have just been saved by another sweet treat: mangoes.

Do you sleep like this adorable Japanese kitten named Tetsuro, flat on your back with your hands by your sides?

You knew it was coming: Flu season's back, and there's no telling how mild or wild it will be (remember swine flu?).

Some single moms say they have to be both mother and father to their kids.

More than half of Americans find their job unsatisfactory, according to an annual survey released last month by the Conference Board research group. The nation has been hovering around the halfway mark of job dissatisfaction since at least 2000.

Making sure your little ones get enough sleep just might be one of the best things you could do for their health, both now and later on, experts say.

The man was about to snap. He had just lost a child.

South Carolina beekeeper Juanita Stanley has a message to mosquito control officials who she believes are overreacting to Zika: "Stop. This is crazy. It's like using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut. The devastation that it has already caused is beyond comprehension. We can't live without these honeybees."

It started with a frantic 911 call to the police department in Cocoa, Florida.

Death first stared at Sonia, straight in the eyes, when she was only 10 years old.

China's ban on certain chemicals is being credited by Drug Enforcement Administration officials in a noticeable decrease in certain synthetic drugs in the United States.