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While only two of the 43 cases in the DRC have been positively confirmed in a laboratory to be Ebola, experts at the World Health Organization and the United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention are closely monitoring the situation, and teams are already in the isolated region in an attempt to contain the outbreak.

A lot of people have asked me about developing a weight loss plan that revolves around baby food.

A Georgia mother who noticed what she thought were colored freckles on her chest wants others to be aware of the often overlooked symptoms of breast cancer.

Non-drug approaches that work best at relieving cancer-related fatigue may differ during and after cancer treatment, according to an analysis of past trials.

A high school junior’s date was the talk of the prom last week after he decided to take his 92-year-old terminally ill grandmother to the dance.

A botulism outbreak has killed one man and sickened nine other people who ate nacho cheese sauce contaminated with the toxic bacterial protein.

Eight months after a devastating fire destroyed an Army veteran’s house, he and his cancer survivor granddaughter have a place to call home again thanks to generous donations from a local Maryland home improvement company.

A Virginia high school student who attends school with a service dog found himself side-by-side with his canine in the school's yearbook photos.

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The final Ebola outbreak in Guinea taught us that creating trust and engaging community support are some of the best weapons for beating an epidemic.

Germany will pass a law next week obliging kindergartens to inform the authorities if parents fail to provide evidence that they have received advice from their doctor on vaccinating their children, the health ministry said on Friday.

School officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, have changed their minds and agreed to let a teen with brain cancer walk with her peers at graduation.

A 16-year-old California high school student has been identified as one of the youngest victims in a botulism outbreak linked to nacho cheese sold at a gas station.

U.S. deaths from Alzheimer's disease rose by more than 50 percent from 1999 to 2014, and rates are expected to continue to rise, reflecting the nation's aging population and increasing life expectancy, American researchers said on Thursday.

The girl who was pulled into the water by a sea lion in Vancouver over the weekend is receiving medical treatment to stave off any potential bacterial infection that could have infiltrated her system through a cut on her finger.

Backing up what some parents have been claiming for years, researchers are now hailing a compound in marijuana as a "game-changing medication" for epilepsy.

The tilapia treatment can speed up healing by several days and reduces the need for pain medication.

"He is certainly one of the happiest patients we have seen in our ward,” Seeker quotes Dr. Andre van der Merwe as saying.

A massive drug survey has labeled hallucinogenic mushrooms as the safest recreational drug in the world—though ensuring you're consuming a psychedelic variety of fungi, rather than some poisonous version, is rather important.

A Virginia hospital says its staff has successfully delivered sextuplets and the three boys and three girls are thriving.