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An Ohio mother's cancer vanished after a clinical trial, according to her doctors. Denise Keenan, 66, of Youngstown, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2009. Keenan went in and out ...

A woman reportedly went brain dead and nearly died after attempting a “soy sauce cleanse,” meaning, she drank ...

Sodas sweetened with fructose may have a greater impact on risk factors for diabetes than whole fruits that ...

NEW YORK—This year has seen a record number of cases of a mysterious paralyzing illness in children, U.S. ...

Pregnant women may be less likely to have cesarean deliveries when they labor at a hospital with more ...

The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) is raising the alarm on button batteries in households with children after a ...

WASHINGTON—On the same day John O’Brien was appointed as the next senior adviser to the Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

NEW YORK —More work by a prominent food researcher, including a study that took aim at the "Joy ...

WASHINGTON—Two U.S. senators from opposite sides of the aisle are proposing legislation that would close a loophole in ...

Almost 2 out of 3 non-citizen households in the United States receive some form of welfare, according to ...

WASHINGTON—States should expand health insurance offerings and Congress and the White House should work to get rid of ...

A leukemia patient who is expecting twins found a perfect donor match after tens of thousands of people ...

JOHANNESBURG—Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak is now the second largest in history, behind the devastating West Africa outbreak that ...

In an effort to spur innovation in state health care markets, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

NEW YORK—After repeated food poisoning outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce, the produce industry is confronting the failure of ...

The expansive court case seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for the nation's opioid crisis has a new complication: ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released on Nov. 28 its strategy for tackling burdensome health-record paperwork ...

WASHINGTON—Some 4,300 Veterans Affairs (VA) workers have been demoted, fired, or suspended since President Donald Trump took office, ...

Propaganda experts have long admitted that the “big lie” is an important tool for molding public opinion. A psychological profile of ...

A 23-year-old saved her son's life after both his kidneys failed following heart surgery. Jace Josephson, 2, was ...

A University of Maryland student has died following complications stemming from an adenovirus infection, which in extreme cases ...

Older women who lose weight may have a lower risk of developing invasive breast cancer than those who ...

Tuberculosis (TB), the bacterial disease once known as “phthisis” over 2,000 years ago, continues to leave its deadly ...

A substantial proportion of parents confessed to giving their children antibiotics that had been prescribed for someone else, ...

NEW YORK—In a major new effort to curb smoking, a top U.S. health official pledged on Nov. 15, ...

NEW YORK—Eating disorders affect people of all ages, sexes, sexual orientations, races, sizes, and socioeconomic status, and have ...

WASHINGTON—The next generation of biotech food is headed for the grocery aisles, and first up may be salad ...