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Nathanaelle Bernard was two months short of the due date for her first child when Hurricane Matthew crashed through her town overlooking the Caribbean Sea along Haiti's southwestern coast.

In this chronically struggling city along the Hudson River, residents beset by poverty, high crime and boarded-up homes now have an entirely new worry — that their tap water may have exposed them to a chemical linked to cancer.

A rare bile duct cancer that may be linked to time served in the Vietnam War is quietly killing some former soldiers.

Parasitic worm infections that veterans contracted in Vietnam are contributing to cancer deaths — but the VA is rejecting many appeals for coverage.

U.S. prisons are experimenting with a high-priced monthly injection that could help addicted inmates stay off opioids after they are released.

Ken Felix has a lot of faith in people.

Holidays are a double whammy when it comes to gaining weight.

For starters, everybody poops, and there's no "right" way to do it, says Larry Good, MD, a board-certified gastroenterologist affiliated with Concierge Choice Physicians.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column will be the first in a series of four columns this week examining how Trump’s health care plan, which will be referred to as THP, may look under his new leadership based on statements he has made and policymakers he has aligned himself with for his transition team and administration.

America is in the midst of a drug and mental health epidemic.

A healthy pregnancy is a priority for every mother-to-be, but for women who have diabetes, including those who are diagnosed with gestational diabetes, their health care can become more complex.

Lemuel Tebuck lives in a small village in northwest Cameroon, and when he was just four months old his dad noticed that his son’s eye was straying and he couldn’t focus.

Canker sores are frustrating and painful.

Thirteen cases of mumps have now been confirmed at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

A man who was too shy to approach a doctor about blood in his urine attempted to identify the cause of his illness at home by inserting a stainless-steel chopstick into his penis.

For women diagnosed with breast cancer, high vitamin D levels in the blood may be tied to better odds of surviving and having tumors with less deadly characteristics, suggests a new study.

In what may not make for the sexiest headline, a new study shows there's a link between constipation and kidney disease.

The year in which you were born may predict your risk of getting some types of the flu, a new study of people in Asia and the Middle East suggests.

Talk to any twins you know, and you will likely find the one who popped out first thinks he or she is entitled to the bragging rights of being the eldest.

Drugmaker AbbVie Inc said on Friday its experimental fixed-dose combination to treat certain hepatitis C virus patients achieved high sustained viral response (SVR) rates after eight weeks of treatment.