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A Colorado father who welcomed his baby girl on the same day he lost his wife is receiving help from his Littleton community after a fundraiser was started on Facebook.

Makeup, toothpaste, and soap: What do these everyday personal care items have in common? According to a recent study, certain chemicals found in them could contribute to girls hitting puberty earlier.

Health officials in New York are requiring students who attend Jewish schools in certain zip codes to get the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine amid a measles outbreak that has sickened at least 39 children in the Orthodox Jewish community since October.

A 36-year-old California man who was admitted to the intensive care unit with chronic heart failure was coughing so severely that he hacked up an intact cast of the right bronchial tree. 

A pharmaceutical company has issued a recall for three lots of infant ibuprofen distrubted to stores nationwide.

Twin sisters headed are home this weekend for the first time in separate car seats, seven months after they were born joined at the belly, with their liver and intestines fused together.

A young Haitian boy received a life-saving treatment after a series of miraculous encounters – with a Christian missionary, a Jewish doctor, and a Muslim family – but it wasn’t easy.

 A Florida firefighter has donated a kidney to help a stranger.

A New Hampshire woman who survived a horrifying domestic assault 11 years ago and underwent a face transplant in 2013 said she has lost her sight after contracting an infection.

A health official testified that a cooling tower that provides mist to make Disneyland visitors comfortable was the likely source for 22 cases in a Legionnaires' disease outbreak last year near the theme park.

A simple blood test has been developed that can diagnose cancer in just 10 minutes.

A man feared he was going blind after his head doubled in size when he had a bizarre extreme reaction to hair dye.

A women's chiropractic procedure to manipulate her neck may have inadvertently led doctors to discover a large cyst in her brain that had likely been there for decades.

Brazilian doctors are reporting the world's first baby born to a woman with a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor.

Cases of a rare illness called Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) that has affected more than a hundred Americans this year appears to have peaked, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday.

A Belgian woman claims she lost her right eye after a parasite got stuck behind her contact lens when she took a shower, causing her to develop a rare but serious eye infection.

Health officials are warning anyone who visited or was around Clemson University near the end of November to be on alert after a case of mumps was connected to campus.

When a sculptor in Toronto started feeling ill in 2013, she had no idea that her art was the reason why.

More U.S. beef is being recalled because it may be contaminated with salmonella.

A worldwide search is underway to find a donor with an incredibly rare type of blood needed to help save a 2-year-old girl in Florida. Zainab Mughal, who has neuroblastoma and requires life-saving transfusions, is missing the “Indian B” antigen in her blood due to a genetic mutation.