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Brain surgery for children whose epilepsy is resistant to drug therapy can produce a 10-fold increase in the odds of being seizure-free after one year and can do it without affecting IQ, according to a new Indian study of 116 patients in The New England Journal of Medicine.

You might dismiss lung cancer because you don’t smoke or because you live in a less polluted area.

A Rhode Island doctor pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges he participated in a scheme to obtain kickbacks in exchange for writing prescriptions for an addictive fentanyl-based cancer pain drug produced by Insys Therapeutics Inc.

Tesaro Inc said on Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an intravenous version of its drug to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in adults.

The prevalence of U.S. adults with high cholesterol declined significantly between 1999-2000 and 2015-2016, achieving a long-term public health goal, according to data released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

Fisher-Price is voluntarily recalling about 65,000 motorized infant seats because of risk of a fire hazard.

For the first time in the 107-year history of the Boy Scouts, three triplets who are blind have been named Eagle Scouts.

A former fertility doctor in Indiana accused of using his own sperm to impregnate patients plans to plead guilty to two charges of obstruction of justice.

A pharmacist at a facility whose tainted drugs sparked a nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people was cleared Wednesday of murder but was convicted of mail fraud and racketeering.

You’re feeling forgetful: Is it just a “senior moment,” or is it actually Alzheimer’s disease?

A New Jersey judge cleared the way for parents to force-feed their 20-year-old anorexic daughter.

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he believes polio will be eliminated from the Earth this year.

Here in the U.S., where food is certified and regulated, you don’t expect to come away from a restaurant with an intestinal parasite.

At least a dozen people in New York City contracted Legionnaires’ disease, prompting city officials to launch an investigation into the community cluster to contain it before it becomes a deadly outbreak.

Health investigators in Minnesota are questioning at least one nurse at an assisted living facility after a deceased patient who was scheduled to receive 42 doses of chemotherapy medications in a 12-week period only got 26.

A Texas man who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria infection has been identified as a carpenter who was helping to repair homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey.

A plague epidemic in Madagascar has killed 124 people since August in an outbreak that has hit the island's two main cities the hardest, the authorities said on Wednesday.

Legendary San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark who in March revealed he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), said in an interview Tuesday that he is “losing strength and lost 80 pounds.

Italian doctors were left bewildered when a woman was admitted to the hospital for “sweating blood” from her palms of her hands and face, a new case published in a medical journal on Monday revealed.

A high school football team is playing for more than touchdowns and stats after a relative reached out and asked if they could honor a 3-year-old girl facing a terminal illness.