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State officials in Florida on Friday tripled the active Zika transmission zone in the trendy seaside community of Miami Beach after five new cases of the mosquito-borne virus believed to cause a severe birth defect were identified in the area.

A group of African-American doctors is calling on President Obama to ban the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes, which data shows are heavily favored among black smokers.

People are singing the praises of an Arkansas mother and daughter who turned a trip to Walmart to buy tampons into an opportunity to "destroy menstruation stigma"—as per Teen Vogue—and—as Mashable puts it—"rip into the patriarchy."

A 26-year-old Chinese actress who documented her cancer treatment journey online has died, BuzzFeed News reported, and her death has sparked conversation in her native country about the possible harms of traditional Chinese medicine.

Long before Mean Girls made “you can’t sit with us” a ubiquitous lunchroom line, teens everywhere were hearing it from their local plastics.

Even if you haven't chowed down on chicken fingers since your School House Rock days, your inner kid still knows that having a special sauce for dipping, drizzling, or dunking makes any meal that much more awesome.

Ryan Segovia started high school not in a classroom but in a hospital bed, fighting a disease that threatened to take his life.

With the exception of cat people who believe their kitties are the most sublime creatures on Earth, I think the rest of us can agree that dogs are man’s, and more than a few women’s, best friends.

Your worst fears have been confirmed, working ladies.

Canadian doctors dealing with patients who have proved unable to stop taking heroin can now go ahead and prescribe them heroin.

In the US, it's estimated there are now more guns than there are people, as the Washington Post reported in 2015, so it may not be too surprising that about half of children regularly spend time in homes with firearms.

More than a dozen students at Florida State University (FSU) are sick with hand, foot and mouth disease, an illness that's usually seen in young children.

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may not have much in common, but there is at least one thing they share: their age.

Making medical marijuana legal may lead to a reduction of opioid use in adults under the age of 40, a new study suggests

A little dust may seem harmless, but scientists have identified a number of potentially hazardous chemicals in the dust found in households, according to a new review study

Getting regular moderate or vigorous exercise may offset some of the potentially lethal health effects of regular alcohol consumption, a new study suggests.

Sleep problems and gloomy daydreams may worsen the symptoms of a rare psychiatric disorder that causes people to feel as though they are "unreal," a new report of one man's case suggests

Drinking alcohol, even in moderate amounts, may increase the size of the heart's left atrium, a new study finds

A group of African-American doctors is calling on President Obama to ban the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes, which data shows are heavily favored among black smokers.

Novavax Inc said on Thursday that its experimental vaccine for a serious infectious respiratory disease failed at the final stage of human testing, sending its stock plunging more than 80 percent.