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A 21-year-old was left fighting for her life after a sore throat she thought was just tonsillitis developed into a deadly disorder - leaving her unable to walk or talk.

Twin brothers from Texas, who were both diagnosed last year with stage 4 cirrhosis of the liver both need a transplant but only one is getting a new organ.

A Utah woman is in the hospital recovering after having both her arms and legs amputated.

Death row inmates in Arizona have died before getting lethal injection. Five prisoners died from “natural causes” related to Hepatitis C infections according to relatives and lawyers for the dead prisoners.

Most U.S. adults have poor cardiovascular health, and more people are at risk for heart attacks and strokes today than was true a generation ago, a U.S. study suggests.

A woman who hid her ugly leg for 14-years after being mocked by bullies strikes back at her tormentors and becomes a model.

A dash of cumin or dill might help convince high school students to load up their plate with vegetables during lunchtime in the cafeteria, a small study suggests.

A new contraceptive pill, called DMAU, when taken daily could bring sperm count low enough so a man can’t get his partner pregnant.

After a change of heart, authorities in Nepal are allowing a double amputee who was banned from climbing Mt. Everest to reach his lifelong dream.

With vaping on the rise, parents are worrying about “Juuling,” a trendy new vaporizer that’s becoming popular on college campuses and high schools.

Millions of people across the country rallied around 2-year-old Tripp Halstead as he foguht for his life after getting crushed by a falling tree branch outside his day care in Jefferson, Georgia back in 2012.

Nearly one third of first-year college students have thought about suicide, according to a study across eight countries, and non-heterosexual identity or feelings were the biggest risks for this kind of thinking or behavior.

Surgeons on a charity hospital ship in Cameroon were able to correct an 11-year old girl's legs that were so severely bowed, they faced backwards.

What 13-year-old Marquel Brumley believed was a common cold turned into a deadly infection -- and his family sharing the boy's story to warn others just days after his death.

Doctors in India saved a man who was impaled by a 4-foot poll that went through his groin and out his neck.

Federal health officials are taking the first step in a sweeping anti-smoking plan to drastically cut nicotine levels in cigarettes so they aren't addictive.

People who visited the airports in Detroit, Memphis, and Newark, N.J. in recent days may have been exposed to measles after two international travelers were diagnosed with the highly contagious disease, health officials said on Tuesday.

Midwife mother delivered her own baby by C-section, and a photographer captured it.

The U.S. spends about twice what other high-income nations do on health care but has the lowest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rates, a new study suggests.

Researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania are testing fluorescent dyes that make cancer cells glow to make them easier for surgeons to find.