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A 50-year-old man left paralyzed from a devastating stroke is completely aware of the environment around him, but can no longer eat, talk or move after the episode triggered a rare syndrome that leaves patients feeling “buried alive.”

Gilead Sciences, makers of HIV prevention drug Truvada, have announced that a generic version will be available as early as September 2020.

After 27 years living with autoimmune hepatitis, a Utah mother has been cured thanks to a part of her son’s liver and an innovative new treatment that used 3-D technology, according to a report.

Howard Gregg Diamond, a Texas doctor who wrote unnecessary prescriptions for powerful drugs that contributed to the overdose deaths of at least seven people, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

A 3-year-old Florida boy with leukemia was ordered Wednesday to continue his chemotherapy treatments despite his parents wishes that he undergo cannabis therapy and other herbal remedies.

Liberal media outlet Vice was mocked on Thursday over a story explaining how medical textbooks feature too many bodies that are "white, male, slim, and young." 

A 37-year-old nursing student from Iran who spent years of her life in and out of doctors’ offices and enduring callous remarks from strangers is rebuilding her life in New York after undergoing life-changing surgery on a birthmark that was taking over her face.

Patients who have had their appendix removed are three times more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than those who have not, according to a new study.

Benjamin Franklin famously quipped that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Today, most people could justifiably add, "and I don't understand either of them."

A toddler whose facial nerves were damaged during surgery to remove a huge tumor which doctors first believed was an ear infection is now cancer free, just months after her parents were told she may not survive. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was blasted by his family in a recent op-ed regarding his beliefs on vaccinations.

Continued attacks on Ebola treatment facilities and medical professionals have many fearing the outbreak in the DRC could morph into another global catastrophe.

An Army veteran from Iowa received his final wish to marry the love of his life just hours before he tragically died at the age of 20 from liver cancer.

The Kentucky high school senior at the center of a vaccination lawsuit has allegedly come down with the chicken pox.

Oyster lovers, beware: Raw oysters harvested from Estero El Cardon in Baja California Sur, Mexico, have been linked to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak in California.

 A California mother who spent a year and a half fighting in court on behalf of her son who was found unresponsive at his daycare and later died has filed a separate lawsuit against online retailer Etsy, and the Lithuanian makers of a teething necklace that the boy was wearing when he was placed down for a nap.  

A family in Pakistan is desperate for surgeons to save their infant son whose brain is growing out of his nose.

The hope is that technology will extinguish the patient's addiction, quite literally, with the flip of a switch.

Tyson Foods Inc. says it will install metal detecting devices to ensure product safety following a recall of nearly 12 million pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips over consumer complaints of contamination.

A Texas lawmaker and a pro-vaccine doctor got into a Twitter spat on Tuesday when the Republican representative accused the pediatrician of peddling “sorcery” and accused those defending science of being "typical leftist(s) trying to take credit for something only The Lord God Almighty is in control of."