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A sport-loving man has been left wheelchair-bound in middle age after a devastating bout of chicken pox.

U.S. regulators have approved the first digital pill with an embedded sensor to track if patients are taking their medication properly, marking a significant step forward in the convergence of healthcare and technology.

New medical guidelines lower the threshold for high blood pressure, adding 30 million Americans to those who have the condition.

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In numerous ploys reminiscent of 19th century snake oil salesmen, pharmacy owners and marketers are bribing or giving kickbacks to doctors for writing spurious prescriptions to Medicare, Medicad and Tricare patients for costly, dangerous and unneeded pain and scar creams.

Baseball legend Sammy Sosa sent Twitter into a tizzy last week, after photos of the former Chicago Cubs slugger appearing several shades lighter surfaced during his trip to London.

A 10-month-old boy who weighs as much as a typical 9-year-old child is potentially in danger of dying as his parents scramble to raise money for potential treatment.

Just one week after being told that she wasn’t a good candidate for a double-lung transplant, 27-year-old Caleigh Haber scratched plans to celebrate her engagement to Bryan Takayama, and instead married him in a ceremony focused on making the most of the time that they have together.

Police in a Massachusetts town paid a special visit to their number one fan — a 2-year-old boy battling brain cancer.

The widow of a retired Stuyvesant HS chemistry teacher who died of a rare brain cancer in 2006 says exposure to toxins from the World Trade Center site killed her husband.

If you suffer cardiac arrest in public, just being a woman means you’re less likely to receive potentially life-saving CPR from a passerby, according to a new study.

Target pulled two fidget spinners from store shelves and its website over the weekend after a public advocacy group said it found high levels of lead in the popular products.

Mass murders are becoming all too common in America. Fox News’ Dr. Manny Alvarez sits down with two prominent psychologists to take a look at the psychology behind mass shootings.

Be careful of things that go bump in the night, especially if those bumps lead to skin injuries: A new study from England finds that skin injuries that happen at night heal more slowly than those that take place during the day.

An ailing grandfather died on Wednesday after battling cancer for several years, but not before his team of nurses and grieving relatives hatched a plan to sneak his beloved pooch into the hospital so that he could say a final goodbye.

Tamoxifen can reduce the risk of a breast cancer recurrence, but many women complain of side effects like hot flashes and weight gain.

A Silicon Valley startup is allowing people to preorder at-home fertility test kits for $149, but they haven’t shared any scientific studies that show they can deliver accurate results.

Opioid drug abuse has killed more Americans than the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars combined, and U.S. veterans and advocates this Veteran's Day are focusing on how to help victims of the crisis.

Two tourists from Utah who visited San Diego this summer say they believe they contracted hepatitis A on their trip.