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A 36-year-old woman in Sweden who had received a transplanted womb has given birth to a healthy boy, the Telegraph reported on Friday. The child, now at home with his mother, was born last month by caesarean section in t...

White House officials touted the nation's capable health care system and urged calm Friday amid an ongoing Ebola outbreak. Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco was joined by o...

A patient admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington does not the Ebola virus, health officials said Saturday. Both the D.C. Health Department and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed t...

Dystopian visions of the future often explore post-apocalyptic scenarios where life on the surface is rare or extinct. If robots are commonplace when life were to disappear, what would their existence be like? Would they...

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Cruel factory-farming practices may soon fade after new policy announcements from some of the world's largest food companies.

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