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Staff at the Hanger Clinic in San Francisco were able to help a 9-year-old girl regain her independence recently, after her prosthetic legs and wheelchair were destroyed by the North Bay wildfires.

Ohio police officers attempted to save a woman who was found unresponsive in her car on Saturday morning, but said their efforts failed when an ambulance crew who responded to their call never showed.

You know there's a problem if you start coughing up blood—but how to react when you start sweating blood?

A pair of twins who were formerly connected at the head are sitting up on their own and continuing to hit crucial developmental milestones after undergoing separation surgery in June.

Retailer Meijer Inc said it was recalling packaged vegetables in six U.S. states due to possible contamination from Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which can cause fatal food poisoning in young children, pregnant women and elderly or frail people.

A woman's IUD that appeared to be "missing" from her uterus turned up in an unusual place: her bladder.

Researchers from New York’s NYU Langone School of Medicine said in an interview that people are aware that they died, and might be able to hear a doctor announcing their death.

Sister Mary Agnus Dei is used to the stares and double-takes as she cruises the streets in her habit.

This is the secret to making your flu shot work better, says a new study.

Doctors were expecting to treat a Texas woman who was mourning the death of her beloved Yorkshire terrier for a possible heart attack, only to discover that her symptoms were actually due to a broken heart.

A former Oklahoma inmate is suing for $5 million dollars in a lawsuit that claims prison officials let him suffer in “unbearable pain” after being denied treatment for a 91-hour erection.

A Florida nursing home that charged one of its residents who was killed when Hurricane Irma created sweltering conditions at the facility has blamed an automatic payment system for the error, and claims that the family has been refunded.

More than 1,100 people have contracted salmonella poisoning from chickens and ducks so far this year, with health officials pointing to an increase in backyard coops as the cause.

A henna artist from Idaho is using her talents to help children with cancer.

The statistics on opioid abuse, overdoses and drug-related deaths in the U.S. are staggering.

A 74-year-old man has taken to the streets in a desperate search to find a kidney donor for his wife.

Driven by ambition and curiosity to learn what lies on the other side of death, five medical students deliberately stop their hearts in order to experience "the afterlife" in the new thriller "Flatliners" (Sony Pictures), which opened in U.S. theaters on Sept. 29.

The colleagues of a California doctor have been calling him James Dean after he hopped on his motorcycle to help evacuate eight premature babies from a NICU as wildfires threatened the hospital.

A severe pain in one man's artificial hip joint turned out to be caused by an extremely rare bacterial infection, according to a new report of the man's case.

A study finds a monthly shot to treat opioid addiction was as effective in maintaining short-term abstinence as a more commonly prescribed daily treatment.