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A 16-year-old girl in Oregon was admitted to an intensive care unit on Oct. 24 due to bubonic plague, which marks the 16th documented case of the illness in the United States. Health officials speculated that the teen go...

E. Coli wipes out over 40 Chipotle locations in the Northwest. So far, 22 cases of food poisoning have been tied to six of the locations.

After a six-week trial, osteopathic physician Dr. Hsiu Ying "Lisa" Tseng was found guilty of three counts of second-degree murder. The crime: the death of three patients and a total of nine drug overdose deaths within th...

An Australian transgender woman has come out to her mother, whose memory has begun deteriorating due to dementia, every couple of weeks since 2013. For parents with children coming out to them, Tina Healy advised love an...

(Society for Endocrinology) Taking vitamin D supplements can improve exercise performance and lower the risk of heart disease, according to the findings of a preliminary study presented today at the Society for Endocrino...

(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) Spontaneous knee effusion, also known as 'water on the knee,' can be a primary symptom of Lyme disease, even when patients do not exhibit a 'bull's eye' rash, another common Lym...

(Cancer Research UK) Around 20 per cent of girls from ethnic minority backgrounds are not being vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Virus because they feel they don't need to have it.

(University of Plymouth) An expert review identifies state-of-the-art of self-disseminating vaccines as a new and potentially powerful strategy to circumvent diseases such as Ebola at the animal source before their estab...

(University of Oxford) Oxford University's Dr Tim Humphrey and team found that cancer cells with a mutated SETD2 gene were killed by a drug called AZD1775 that inhibits a protein called WEE1.

Researchers found that antibiotic treatment overuse is common among patients with severe acne. Such finding delays patients from receiving more potent isotretinoin therapy.