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Many pediatricians and family physicians don’t discuss the meningococcal B vaccine with teens even though these conversations are recommended to determine whether adolescents should get shots to protect against this lethal infection, a U.S. study suggests.

It was a beautiful morning, according to New Zealand's minister for women, so after 42 weeks of pregnancy she decided to hop on her electric bicycle and ride to the hospital to give birth to her first child.

A 12-year-old girl from Detroit, Michigan was hospitalized after she caught fire as part of what her mother called the "fire challenge."

The photo has gone viral.

An 11-year-old boy who is living his remaining days at home after his cancer treatment stopped working is on a mission to collect racing stickers for his casket.

The family of a Philadelphia girl who was declared tumor-free three years after receiving a kiss from the pope has donated $50,000 to the hospital that helped save her.

After multiple football players contracted hand, foot and mouth disease, West Virginia University had to postpone its popular fan appreciation day.

For over 35 years, a Missouri woman has enlisted her husband and a kind friend to help her go through the hour-long process of climbing into what is believed to be one of the last remaining iron lungs still functioning today.

A rabies alert has been issued in a Florida city after a bat tested positive for the dangerous disease.

Surrounded by cheering family and friends, 4-year-old honorary Colorado Springs Police Officer Joshua Salmoiraghi finished his last round of chemotherapy Sunday.

Americans spend so much time working together in their day-to-day lives that coworkers become family, and now at this Arizona hospital, 16 nurses are together making a next generation of family.

Passengers on a city bus in Minnesota have helped a woman deliver her baby after she went into labor.

A Glendale, Arizona, photographer’s photo that shows a newborn surrounded by in vitro fertilization syringes has gone viral, detailing the hardship one woman underwent to be able to call herself a mother.

A Michigan nurse claims the hospital she works in granted her patient’s wish to have her removed from her care because she is black.

Lead kills.

An Iowa woman is suing her South Dakota doctor and his practice after she claims she went in for a procedure to remove a mass on her adrenal gland and came out still with the mass inside of her — and missing a healthy kidney.

A new Consumer Reports study found many types of food commonly eaten by babies and toddlers -- such as packaged entrees, fruits and vegetables -- contained “measurable levels” of certain heavy metals.

Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound found in cannabis, has been a hot topic of debate among the medical community and proponents of alternative therapy who say it helps treat seizures, anxiety and pain, among other ailments.

A New Jersey father who contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing in early July underwent surgery this week to have his forearms and hands amputated, his family said.

A 6-year-old girl’s dream to swim with mermaids came true on Tuesday after she was flown from her home in Ohio to Florida, where she was able to join the Weeki Wachee Springs mermaids in the water.