A Houston-based manufacturer has issued a recall for Vietnamese ready-to-eat pork products that were shipped nationwide after several customers were hospitalized for listeria.
Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life.
A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies -- twin girls whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.
University of Maryland students are growing increasingly concerned mold problems in their dorms may be linked to the death of a freshman who succumbed to the same rare virus that killed 11 children in New Jersey.
The heartbroken aunt of an Arizona teen who police said died of an accidental overdose after he and his friend ingested pills laced with fentanyl is speaking out about the dangers of “experimenting” with drugs.
The World Health Organization says a worrying number of the newest Ebola cases amid Congo's ongoing outbreak are in patients not usually known to catch the disease: babies.
This is the emotional moment a couple tied the knot after moving their wedding ceremony to a hospital chapel because their baby son was involved in a traumatic accident.
The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday said that the multistate E. coli outbreak that was revealed earlier this week is thought to be connected to romaine lettuce grown in California.
Internal decapitation — which results from extreme trauma to ligaments, muscles and joints connecting the skull to the spine, leading to the dislocation of the head from the spinal cord — is often fatal, and those who survive can have significant neurological impairments.
A global diabetes epidemic is fuelling record demand for insulin but tens of millions will not get the injections they need unless there is a dramatic improvement in access and affordability, a new study concluded on Wednesday
Hookworm is a potentially life-threatening parasite. Generally associated with warm, humid parts of Southeast Asia or Latin America, it has people in Alabama nervous.