Researchers studying the brains of 202 former football players discovered traces of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in nearly all of them, with the most severe cases occurring in players who had reached the professional level.
The family of a Northern California teen who was declared brain dead after a 2013 tonsillectomy went awry is fighting to have her death certificate revoked.
The 7-year-old girl who wished to meet Pope Francis after she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor died on Monday, her family said in a Facebook post.
A 35-year-old Florida woman had been unable to get pregnant for 14 years, but her fertility problems were resolved in a most unusual way: A chemotherapy drug that she was given after being diagnosed with cancer triggered her ovaries to function better, a new case report reveals.
The 5-year-old heart transplant recipient whose baseball-themed celebration video went viral earlier this year, died on Friday, just one month after being released from Boston Children’s Hospital following a 189-day stay.
A 56-year-old man said he feels “more alive” after strangers helped raise enough funds for a transformative surgery on his neck that removed 40 pounds of extra flesh.
A South African girl born with the AIDS virus has kept her infection suppressed for more than eight years after stopping anti-HIV medicines -- more evidence that early treatment can occasionally cause a long remission that, if it lasts, would be a form of cure.
A Florida man said he has a "new appreciation of life" after he nearly died when he contracted a flesh-eating bacteria from blisters while hiking in New Hampshire.
A person in New York City died after contracting Salmonella from eating fresh papaya, an outbreak that has infected 46 other people in 12 states, federal health officials announced on Friday.
Diagnosing Alzheimer's is a guessing game—and many doctors are guessing wrong, according to early results from a new study presented Wednesday in London.
A baby born three months premature while his parents were on a “babymoon” arrived in the U.S. on Thursday, after a two-day ordeal over payments to the Mexican hospital that he was born in.
