Fox Health

Canada has set a 2018 target to ban asbestos and products containing the fire-resistant material, which is linked to cancer and other illnesses, the government said on Thursday in a move that brings the country in line with much of the developed world.

Missy Armstrong met her best friend, Sara, as a high school student in 1999, and the pair have been inseparable ever since.

An Illinois woman whose work involves tending to sick children every day has put her personal finances toward helping make their holiday brighter— for the eighth year in a row.

A two-year investigation led by the Chicago Tribune revealed a hazardous trend involving pharmacists dispensing dangerous drug pairings without warning patients.

Older folks tend not to engage as much in risky behavior as teenagers and young adults do.

A new study suggests that becoming pregnant again soon after a miscarriage is no more risky for the mom or the fetus than waiting six months to conceive.

A rare and fatal brain disorder called sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can be challenging to identify, with patients needing to undergo a number of tests before a diagnosis can be made.

A dying man’s wish to marry the love of his life was granted last Friday 36 hours before he died, thanks to quick-thinking nurses and staff at his Texas hospital.

Researchers have created a mind-controlled robotic arm they believe will help millions of paralyzed patients or those with a neurodegenerative disease.

The latest installment in a joint investigation by The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity into the political influence of the opioid industry.

In mid-December 2012, Mary Latham sat in her midtown Manhattan office scrolling through the horrifying headlines telling of an armed suspect shooting 20 innocent children and six staff members at a Connecticut elementary school.

The latest installment in a joint investigation by The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity into the political influence of the opioid industry.

The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity investigated how pharmaceutical companies are using their political clout to push a new form of opioids as their answer to the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.

A 2-year-old Atlanta boy who was born during a 2014 snowstorm is learning how to play like other children after a traumatic birth damaged his spinal cord and paralyzed his left arm.

This is another installment in an investigation by The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity examining the politics behind the nation's opioid epidemic.

On a sweltering September day in 2011, Turia Pitt was blasting Tupac Shakur and running a 62 mile ultra-marathon in the Australian Outback when the unthinkable happened— flames from a “freak firestorm” melted her face and ravaged 65% of her body.

The conjoined California twins that were separated last week following a 17-hour marathon surgery have been reunited for the first time since the operation.

Britain's fertility regulator has approved controversial techniques allowing doctors to create babies using the DNA from three people - what it called a "historic" decision to help prevent a small number of children from inheriting potentially fatal diseases from their mothers.

Pregnant women should consider postponing travel to Brownsville, Texas, because of concerns about mosquitoes there spreading the Zika virus, federal health officials said Wednesday.

Competition is cutthroat among Japan's thousands of pop idol wannabes, but a unique concept is winning fame for a band of "chubby" girls deploying their cheeky cuteness to combat prejudices against obesity.