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When doctors performed surgery on a man to remove what they suspected to be a bronchogenic carcinoma, they instead found a toy traffic cone he had swallowed in 1974.

A medical emergency is quietly unfolding in Puerto Rico, which still lacks fuel and power a week after Hurricane Maria devastated this island.

In 2016, Americans were infected with more than 2 million new cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, the highest number of these sexually transmitted diseases ever reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

From the moment a child is born, its gender pretty much determines how they will dress, which toys they'll be given and ultimately how they are meant to behave within society.

A new type of school is gaining popularity, and it's ripping up the traditional school model in hopes of boosting creativity and critical thinking.

If it seems like the number of complaints from your female friends about not being able to find a man is growing, we may finally know why.

It's one of the age-old medical flip-flops: First coffee's good for you, then it's not, then it is -- you get the picture.

A Georgia woman was shopping at Target when she went into labor. Lucky for her, Caris Lockwood happened to be there.

Ten posters displaying the Confederate flag with a cotton stem attached to each have been discovered at American University -- the latest racist incident targeting black students at the school.

Rapper Pitbull sent his private plane to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico to transport cancer patients to the mainland US for chemotherapy treatments.

The headlines about football players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy - commonly known as CTE - seem endless. The most recent diagnosis of the neurodegenerative brain disease was given to former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez. But one of the biggest obstacles in understanding CTE has been the inability to diagnose it in the living. New research released Tuesday may make that possible. Published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have found a protein that can be a marker of this devastating disease.

The lives of 12 hospitalized children in San Juan, Puerto Rico, are in danger due to a diesel shortage after extensive damage to the US island territory's fuel supply infrastructure, a hospital administrator said.

We are one groggy, cranky, sleep-deprived population.

One in every six cases of HIV in Europe is diagnosed in people over the age of 50, a new study has found.

A new report ranks the 25 largest US fast food and "fast casual" restaurant chains on their antibiotics policies and practices.

Overusing antibiotics in the country's fast food supply could have potentially harmful consequences, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains.

A cancer cluster is suspected at a Cincinnati police headquarters building, according to the Police Department's union president. Sergeant Dan Hils, who spoke on the steps of the headquarters Tuesday morning, called on the city's mayor and council members to relocate police officers working at the District 5 headquarters building before Christmas with a deadline of October 30 to put a plan into place.

Erika Navarro said she had been on FaceTime with her grandfather, Miguel Antonio Franco, on September 5 -- his 93rd birthday. Navarro, her grandfather and her mother had birthdays a few days apart and a joint party was in the works.

Nearly every major medical group believes the GOP's latest "repeal and replace" will only make healthcare worse for America. But what do doctors want instead?

Emilia Szmyrgala turned into a zombie during midterms and finals -- a sleepless, non-showering, isolated study monster focused entirely on acing her exams.