New research suggests there may be a limit to our life span - one that's hard to extend without some sort of breakthrough that fixes all age-related problems. The record for the world's oldest...

When the young Australian cervical cancer patient learned she had to lose her womb in order to survive, she proposed something audacious to the doctor who was treating her: She asked if she could have...

Five years ago there were a couple dozen stand-alone emergency centers in Texas, and now there are more than 200. Colorado, Ohio and other states also have seen steady growth. As these centers...

Four women who had been born without a uterus received one in operations last month at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Three of the wombs have had to be removed because of poor...

It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity - mostly walking - helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch...

It's dreaded by moms-to-be but morning sickness is actually a good sign - for the baby, a government study shows, confirming common pregnancy lore and less rigorous research. Women with nausea...

Forget the pink ribbons. Spitting in a tube for science is what unites a growing group of breast cancer patients taking part in a unique project to advance treatment for the deadliest form of the...

An ultrasound showed one of Sarah Gray's unborn twins was missing part of his brain, a fatal birth defect. His brother was born healthy but Thomas lived just six days. Latching onto hope for something...

More federal money finally is available to fight Zika even as the news worsens. Babies who at first seem to have escaped the virus' devastating hallmark defect - an abnormally small head at birth -...

More are using marijuana, using it more often and far fewer think it's risky, the government survey found. That's understandable, experts say, as dozens of states now...