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A North Carolina man died after contracting a bacterial infection while doing yard work related to Hurricane Florence, according to CNN affiliate WECT.

The amount a teenager sleeps is associated with how likely they are to engage in risky and suicidal behavior, says a new study.

A study that examines the education and health of a country's citizens has ranked the United States 27th in the world.

It can taste like pineapple, but also like vanilla. It comes across as "tropical," but also has undertones of tomato. Researchers say its smell can be "intoxicating," but you've probably never heard of it before.

American James Allison and Japan's Tasuku Honjo have won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine for a pioneering new approach to cancer treatment.

Chalk up another win for Mom: She was right when she told you to drink more water to fight off pesky and painful recurring bladder infections.

"My friends told me I looked like a human missile," said Brandon Nelson, a 32-year-old firefighter, as he recounted an accident last month on an electric scooter in San Diego, one of hundreds released onto that city's streets by Bird, a California-based rideshare company.

In elementary school, children get the talk about unwanted touching. In college, they learn about boundaries and what constitutes assault.

The last abortion clinic in Kentucky can stay open after a federal judge Friday threw out a state law on licensing agreements as unconstitutional.

They needed another way in, and perhaps writing would do the trick.

He was the only one in his family to survive the Holocaust. Now Alter Wiener is committed to sharing his story with as many young people as he can.

Smoking isn't the only way teens are using cannabis. According to a study published Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, they are also vaping it or using edibles.

The heart-wrenching testimony of Christine Blasey Ford on Thursday prompted a visceral reaction that played out on television and online.

Residents in a community north of St. Louis got some news this week they've longed wanted to hear. Radioactive material -- from the Manhattan Project -- will be removed from an area landfill.

America is focused on combating the devastating impacts of opioid addiction, but states like Oklahoma are struggling to fight a new battle against an old foe: methamphetamine.

Rising rates of breast cancer in the UK are projected to see deaths from the disease rise from 2022 due to healthcare inequalities, find a new analysis by the UK charity Breast Cancer Now published Friday.

Your doctor already talks to you about sex, drugs and alcohol, but should they talk to you about guns, too? A newly-formed coalition of healthcare providers thinks so -- and patient intervention is just one part of their plan to reduce what they call an "epidemic" of gun violence.

For the first time, a case of rat hepatitis E has been discovered in a human in Hong Kong.

Vivian Stancil never thought she'd become a swimmer, much less a competitive one with a wall full of medals.

At kindergarten, three-year-old Seven Kong has his schoolmates to play with, but at home his best friend is a kidney-shaped, lime-coloured android named BeanQ.