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Communities across the country are grappling with the growing opioid epidemic as the number of daily overdoses continues to climb.

A novel therapy holds real promise in changing the way dentists treat your cavities—they'd get the cavities to fill themselves.

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that Schreiber Processing Corp. has recalled about 2,330 pounds of chicken tender products that may be contaminated with plastic and misbranded.

In a West Virginia case that highlights a growing nationwide epidemic, an Ohio drug dealer has pleaded guilty to selling opioid-laced heroin that was responsible for at least 26 overdoses in a single day.

State officials in the Mexican state of Chihuahua confirmed the birth of a baby with two heads after video of the crying children was shared online by relatives, Central European News (CEN) reported.

Bears aren’t the only mammals that hibernate in the winter: us humans do it too.

With virtually every state reporting influenza outbreaks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this season is looking worse than last year’s, leaving many wondering what they can do to prevent it from spreading.

A North Carolina couple is looking for the driver of a snowplow who got them to the hospital in time to deliver their son after their truck broke down on an exit ramp.

A Virginia man showing off his physical prowess isn’t just doing it for looks— he’s showing people that determination can overcome circumstances.

A Florida couple was found dead near their car on Dec. 31, with their three disabled children in the vehicle.

When Ant and Beth Abbot were told their son Finn had congenital heart disease, they entered a period of overwhelming shock and emotion.

At 90, stoic Queen Elizabeth II has rarely taken a sick day in the 64 years and 11 months she has ruled Great Britain, but a particularly brutal cold this past holiday season has had her laid up for more than two weeks.

The former president of a compounding pharmacy blamed for a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012 put "profits over patients" and ignored repeated warning signs that drugs manufactured by his company were being contaminated by mold, a prosecutor told jurors Monday in a federal racketeering trial.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it has approved Egalet Corp's long-acting opioid painkiller, Arymo ER.

A woman's microbiome may signal if cancer is lurking in her body, a small new study suggests.

An analysis of 15.3 million doctor office visits shows that physicians get paid significantly more if they are part of a large provider group, while insurance companies can dramatically reduce what they pay doctors for those visits if they've consolidated their share of the marketplace.

Kids with behavioral problems may do better in school when they get to play virtual-reality games on stationary bikes instead of participating in traditional gym class activities, a small study suggests.

Widespread breast cancer screening may catch more small, slow-growing tumors that are unlikely to be fatal without curbing the diagnosis of advanced cancer cases, a Danish study suggests.

Smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion a year, and will kill one third more people by 2030 than it does now, according to a study by the World Health Organization and the U.S. National Cancer Institute published on Tuesday.

France on Tuesday widened an area in which mass culling of ducks is to take place as new cases of bird flu were confirmed in the southwest, the country's main foie gras producing region.