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Paralympic snowboarder Amy Purdy underwent surgery Monday after revealing that she had developed a massive blood clot in her leg, forcing her to choose between risking losing her limb or possibly endangering her donated kidney.

A pediatric practice in South Carolina is turning away unvaccinated patients as part of a new policy that seeks to protect patients with a weakened immune system.

A 25-year-old nurse on New York’s Long Island was fitted with a pacemaker earlier this month after she self-diagnosed her troubling symptoms following a hip injury.

An infant in Tokyo who is believed to be the smallest surviving baby boy in the world has finally been released from the hospital for the first time since his August birth.

More families are suing an Ohio hospital and a critical-care doctor accused of ordering excessive doses of pain medication for dozens of patients who died.

A Los Angeles-area “herbalist” was convicted in a child abuse case Tuesday after a jury found him responsible for the death of a 13-year-old diabetic boy.

Traces of a weed killer have been found in popular beers and wine, according to a study by U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG).

North Carolina firefighters responding to a medical call this week had little training for the situation they found themselves in but had no trouble stepping up to the task at hand.

A pair of high school sweethearts in Texas tragically lost their unborn son in a horrific car accident while on the way to the hospital to give birth last week.

When Abigail Arias was made honorary police chief of the Freeport Police Department earlier this month she touched the hearts of thousands with her pledge to “keep fighting the bad guys until all my cancer is gone.”

Doctors in Arizona injected a 69-year-old man with a drug designed to shrink tumors growing in his body.

A North Carolina mother mourning the loss of her 35-year-old son who was killed in a fight over a cab in Queens last year has heard his heart beating again inside a teddy bear gifted to her by a patient who received one of his donated organs.

A North Carolina community is mourning the loss of an eighth-grade student who died following severe complications of the flu virus.

Although Ryleigh Williams is under chemotherapy to fight leukemia, she is also now a new cop in Georgia.

Your eating regimen may determine weight-loss success, and it starts at a molecular level. 

A Kentucky community is mourning the sudden death of an eighth-grade student who complained of feeling ill while at a cheerleading competition in Ohio on Saturday.

A Canadian teen who underwent a radical amputation surgery that saw his foot reattached backward to his upper thigh to form a new knee joint is currently undergoing his 14th round of chemotherapy and looking forward to learning how to walk on a prosthetic limb.

A Missouri boy credited a life-saving decision from watching the film "Black Panther" -- which won three Oscars Sunday night -- after he was impaled by a meat skewer last year in what he called a "terrifying miracle."

Costa Rican health officials say an unvaccinated 5-year-old boy from France who arrived in the country with his parents last week is being tested for a suspected case of the measles.

Nicolas Stover, is suing the company after being fired from a Winchester, Kentucky call center for what his supervisor told him was “time theft.” In the involuntary termination letter he received on Dec. 21, 2017, there was no written reason for his dismissal, although he says his supervisor accused him of taking too much personal time, due to his “excessive bathroom breaks.”