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A mother’s plea for cards to celebrate her autistic son’s upcoming birthday after nobody showed up to last year’s party has gone viral.

An 8-year-old boy is looking forward to doing things like bike riding and rock climbing after receiving a custom 3-D printed arm from a student at the college where his dad teaches.

A daughter’s dream to have her father preside over her wedding came true this April, when she and her partner moved their planned nuptials to his bedside so he could perform the ceremony just 12 days before his death.

The family of a Missouri woman who died from a rare tick-borne illness is speaking out about the dangers of the virus, which has only been confirmed in a handful of patients since it was discovered in 2014.

Sunscreen makes me think of beach vacations and all-day summer picnics.

Stevia, a common coffee sweetener, could be a possible cure for Lyme diease after tests conducted by a Connecticut professor and her students showed promising results to fight the tick-borne illness.

The lowdown on whether you should be cracking an egg into your morning smoothie.

Officials in a Pennsylvania town say they have treated more than 60 people who overdosed on synthetic marijuana over a weekend period.

Research suggests persistent stress in young children can become toxic, causing brain changes that can interfere with learning and lead to disease in adulthood. It's unknown how many children and adults have been harmed by toxic stress but data show that many live in circumstances that experts say put them at risk.

A Michigan CEO’s reply to his employee’s sick day email has gone viral.

A North Carolina mother who was “in the process of actively dying” has finally held her infant son after spending more than 111 days recovering from life-saving surgery.

A new South Carolina law requires all officers to be trained on how to de-escalate situations involving people with mental illnesses.

A measles outbreak has killed 35 people across Europe in the past year, with the World Health Organization (WHO) calling the deaths an “unacceptable tragedy.”

If you’ve done any scrolling on social media or viral sites lately, you have probably come across a few prediction quizzes.

The owners of a Florida sign company who saw a father’s campaign for traffic signs to warn speeding drivers that an autistic child lives and plays in the area has donated special markers to help him in his quest.

A grieving Texas family claims a social media challenge that was believed to be a hoax drove their 15-year-old son to commit suicide on Saturday.

From skunks to sunburns, pets can be as accident prone as their owners. A new book will help you help them through the hazy days of summer.

Researchers studying a mass vaccination campaign against meningitis have found a surprising side effect - the shots also offered moderate protection against gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection that is causing global alarm.

There are a lot of misconceptions out there about major depressive disorder (MDD).

“True Blood” actor Nelsan Ellis died Saturday from heart failure, due to complications from a “withdrawal from alcohol,” his family said.