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Measles, the highly contagious and previously eliminated viral illness, has been spreading in communities across the United States in recent weeks, with Washington declaring a state of emergency last week and New York reporting in 2018 its second largest outbreak over the past two decades.

So far this year, Washington state is averaging more than one new measles case a day as officials try to help stop the disease's spread.

If you have teenagers, you probably won't be surprised to hear that a study published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics found that only 5% of them are getting enough sleep or exercise and are limiting their screen time to what's recommended by experts.

Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a blistering letter to a pharmaceutical company on Monday, demanding answers about its decision to charge $375,000 for a formerly low-cost drug and calling it corporate greed at its worst.

The adult female brain appears, on average, a few years younger than the male brain, a new study says. This suggest that sex affects how our brain ages, which in turn might influence our tendency to develop neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Cancers fueled by obesity are on the rise among young adults in the United States and appearing at increasingly younger ages, according to an analysis released Monday by the American Cancer Society.

There was a significant increase in women with commercial insurance getting long-acting reversible contraception, or LARC, in the month after the 2016 presidential election, according to a new research paper.

The ocean will not look the same color in the future. It won't turn pink or anything radically different; the change will be more apparent through optic sensors than though the human eye. But it serves as an early warning sign that global warming is significantly altering the planet's ecosystems, according to a new study.

New research shows that cases of diseases more commonly associated with the Victorian era are increasing in the UK.

Neighbors found unexpected warmth when they opened their front doors this week to the minus-14-degree wind chill in Morton Grove near Chicago. Handwritten notes left behind read: "My family and I are available if you need assistance in picking up groceries, medicine or removal of snow."

The Super Bowl is a national holiday even for those who don't watch football. One big reason for that? The food.

A new report has revealed the world's heaviest internet users: the Philippines, where people spent an average of 10 hours and two minutes a day online in 2018.

Police in London have issued an appeal to find the mother of a newborn baby abandoned in a park in freezing conditions.

A series of lawsuits spurred by the opioid epidemic has thrust one of America's richest yet little-known families into a spotlight they've long sought to avoid.

Tobacco companies are advertising products around educational institutions and intentionally targeting children in India, a recent study found.

A year and a half ago, Stein Esser was in a rut.

For the past 467 days, Zei Uwadia has been hospitalized on life support -- but that hasn't kept the quiet-natured teenager from walking, eating her favorite foods or even doing planks as exercise.

The women range in age from the mid-60s to the early 80s. They love to dance and sing. And twice a week, they come to a gym in Cosmo City, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, to box. They are affectionately known as South Africa's "boxing grannies," and these women are juking and jabbing their way to healthier lives.

Pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma LP secretly pursued a plan, dubbed "Project Tango," to become "an end-to-end pain provider" by selling both opioids and drugs to treat opioid addiction, all while owners on the board -- members of one of America's richest families -- reaped more than $4 billion in opioid profits, according to a lawsuit newly unredacted on Thursday.