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Ukraine has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in Europe, according to the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS.

Nathan Bond, who's home schooled, fell in love with the Declaration of Independence. So he challenged himself to memorize the entire Constitution.

Despite almost two years of silence, NASA never stopped searching for its long lost spacecraft STEREO-B.

Sebastian DeLeon, 16, has survived a rare brain-eating amoeba, doctors at Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando said Tuesday.

Throughout her pregnancy, Maria Mendoza, who currently lives in Miami, anguished about her baby's health.

Cigarettes have long been the king of currency at prisons, but there's a new commodity worth even more: ramen noodles.

McDonald's Step-It activity wristbands are being recalled due to risks of skin irritation or burns, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday.

Shannon Vincel of Springfield, Missouri, will be laid to rest Tuesday. The breast cancer patient was sitting outside the guest quarters of Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Zion, Illinois on Aug. 15 when she was struck in the head with an unknown object by a man, the Zion Police department said in a press release. She sustained severe head trauma and died the following night at Condell Medical Center, where she was transported by Zion Fire/Rescue. She was 46.

Parents would undoubtedly give the TV rating system in the United States a terrible review.

Whether playing a wind instrument is your hobby or your job, you may want to watch out for "bagpipe lung."

Medical marijuana has been legal in Maine for almost 20 years. But Farmington physician Jean Antonucci says she continues to feel unprepared when counseling sick patients about whether the drug could benefit them.

Students in a second-grade class in Texas are catching a break on homework. They won't get any -- all year long.

A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation.

Pills seized inside Prince's Paisley Park compound by investigators were labeled as hydrocodone but actually contained fentanyl -- the drug that killed the singer -- according to a source with knowledge of the investigation who revealed the information to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

It's got its own Twitter feed (obviously) and its own tribute song.

On a sunny Saturday morning, Dr. Karla Maguire helps her mother-in-law get her son's stroller out of their house in Surfside, Florida, and then goes back inside while Rafael and his grandmother walk to the beach alone.

Despite the recent findings that having kids might be harmful to your self-esteem, it's pretty safe to say that American culture is "pronatalist": As soon as you graduate college, start a career, and marry somebody, the next level of the video game called life is parenthood. Whether it's your mom asking about would-be grandkids over the holidays or the endless parade of domestic sitcoms, there's an agreed-upon assumption that "family" includes children, and that not having kids must be the result of infertility or just not getting around to it. But these expectations are at odds with changes in the way people are living: From the 1970s to the 2000s, the number of childless women in the U.S. nearly doubled, and the national data suggests that 15 percent of women and 24 percent of men hit 40 without having kids.

There may be a downside to acting as the male breadwinner in a household -- it just might be unhealthy, at least for millennials, according to new research.

Sea Port Products Corp is voluntarily recalling a batch of its scallops after at least 206 people became sick with hepatitis A, prompting an investigation by the US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease control and Prevention.

Health officials in metropolitan Phoenix are working to stop a parasite outbreak at several swimming pools in Maricopa County that causes diarrhea.