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Parents may have fewer options to soothe their teething child.

A sinister satellite image of Hurricane Matthew looking like a smiling skull lit up the Internet.

A dog in Meridian, Idaho, wins that town's "Hometown Hero" award.

From January 1 to August 31, 50 people in 24 states were confirmed to have acute flaccid myelitis, according to the CDC.

Painful sex. A lack of desire. An inability to lubricate. These are some of the most common sexual complaints facing women as they age, yet a majority of women are not getting the help they need from their doctors to solve those problems, according to a new study from the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

Taking hormonal birth control might be associated with an increased risk for depression compared with those who don't use contraception, according to the study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry last week.

Unlike conventional Western exercises, yoga focuses on the breath, and "that turns out to be the doorway to the autonomic nervous system," one doctor says.

Niki Boon has been photographing her home-schooled children as they explore the world around them in rural New Zealand.

Actor Ben Stiller revealed on Tuesday he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2014. The tumor was surgically removed three months later, in September 2014, and Stiller has been cancer-free since then.

Edie Simms is a 102-year-old woman with an unusual item on her to-do list. And, thanks to some officers in St. Louis, she was able to cross that off.

Each piece of a bright patchwork space suit named Courage tells a story. Most of the triangles were painted by childhood cancer patients from MD Anderson hospitals, some impossibly young, some on the edge of 17, some in isolated treatment, some in recovery.

For years, Jenn McNary felt she was fighting a losing battle.

It happens. Every once in a while, a bad day creeps up. And when you're a little guy, you just want to lie down and cry.

Flint, Michigan, is dealing with another outbreak. This time it's an infectious bacterial disease called Shigellosis, which can cause bloody diarrhea and fever and typically spreads when people don't wash their hands.

Approximately 7.7 million American adults age 18 and older have post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Wondering exactly how much protein you should be consuming each day? The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), which is the minimum amount you need to be healthy, is 0.8 grams per kilogram (0.36 grams per pound) of body weight per day -- 46 grams for an average woman. That equals as little as 10% of daily calories. If you're not super active, that's likely adequate, and you'll hit the target effortlessly if you follow a typical Western diet.

When a hurricane, snowstorm, or other major weather event is looming, you probably already know the basics: fill up your gas tank, be sure the batteries in your flashlight and portable radio are fresh, and stock up on nonperishable groceries. But which foods are best, and what supplies may you be missing? The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recommends having three days worth of water and foods like the ones that follow on hand, plus several other items that will keep you healthy and safe in an emergency.

A furry robot might be just as effective at reducing feelings of loneliness in aging adults and young children as a real pet, some experts say.

There was a certain kind of quiet hopefulness when, in late April this year, the last Ebola patient of the West African epidemic -- a two-year-old boy -- walked out of a treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia. With the smoldering embers of the outbreak fading, there was cause for celebration. But there remains the impotent fear of the unseen: Ebola is still out there, lurking. We just don't know where it's hiding or when it will be back.