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Women with osteoporosis who take drugs to help avoid fractures still need to have their bone density monitored, a Canadian study suggests.

Some of the world's largest drug companies are taking out their checkbooks for acquisitions of smaller peers whose cancer drugs have the potential to cure not just patients, but corporate growth prospects as well.

Children and adolescents should receive age-appropriate and evidence-based education about sex and sexuality from pediatricians, schools, professionals and parents, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Beijing's notoriously awful air quality improved significantly in the first half of the year, with actions taken to curb the city's heavy pollution having a positive effect, officials in the Chinese capital said.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc was sued on Monday by dozens of retired wrestlers seeking to hold the company responsible for neurological injuries they claimed to have suffered by participating in its bouts.

Celebrity chef Elizabeth Faulkner knows how to handle the heat in the kitchen, but 20 years ago when she developed a painful, irritating skin condition that seemed to worsen in hot conditions, she began to question whether she’d be able to keep her career.

Beetroot, simply known as the beet, has been gaining popularity as a superfood.

Ever since its release last week, the augmented-reality app Pokémon Go has inundated our social media feeds.

Health authorities in Utah are investigating a unique case of Zika found in a person who had been caring for a relative who had an unusually high level of the virus in his blood.

The number of deadly metastatic prostate cancer cases increased considerably in the last decade, potentially due to a recent decrease in the number of men screened for disease, according to a new study.

By the time you realized you missed a spot with the sunscreen, the damage is usually already done.

There's no accounting for taste—but if you want to blame anything on how you were raised, your taste in music could rank up there, a new study suggests.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials say a man who died after being infected with Zika virus passed it to a caregiver, creating a medical mystery about how it spread between them.

There's a largely unexamined component of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, a disorder most commonly characterized as a pattern of either inattention or hyperactivity/impulsivity, reports the National Institute of Mental Health.

Nine out of every 10 strokes has a modifiable risk factor, including hypertension, a new study suggests.

In a move toward the next generation of implantable diagnostic devices and smart wearable systems, researchers at Tufts University have successfully integrated conductive threads through multiple layers of tissue to gather diagnostic data wirelessly and in real time.

For asthma patients, living near fracking sites is associated with more symptom flare-ups that require medication and hospital care, a U.S. study suggests.

A mother in Kansas has her hands full after giving birth to her third set of twins in just over two years.

Egypt's doctors union has referred four members to a disciplinary court for taking part in the army's development of a widely mocked device said to cure AIDS and hepatitis C. The military's engineering wing unveiled the device in 2014, saying it could extract the viruses and turn them into "kofta," or ground meat.