Use of electronic cigarettes by high school students tripled over three years, according to a new U.S. government report released Thursday. In a large national survey last year, 4.5 percent of...

Millions of people with stents that prop open clogged heart arteries may need anti-clotting drugs much longer than the one year doctors recommend now. A large study found that continuing for another...

Recovery of feeling can gradually improve for years after a hand transplant, suggests a small study that points to changes in the brain, not just the new hand, as a reason. Research presented...

Scientists have discovered gene mutations that give people naturally lower cholesterol levels and cut their risk of heart disease in half. That discovery may have a big implication: A blockbuster...

As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in Poland. He wanted the...

Traffic expert Joe Micallef Stafrace has said that the idea of imposing a ban on smoking in cars when children are on board is compelling because safeguarding children's health and safety should be a...

11-year-old diabetic Kristina Buttigieg urges both young and old individuals with the same condition to speak about their condition to raise awareness and to safeguard their own health. Kristina...

The quest for an Ebola treatment is picking up speed. U.S. officials have unveiled a plan to test multiple drugs at once, in an umbrella study with a single comparison group to give fast answers on...

The U.N.'s Ebola chief said an extraordinary global response over the past month has made him hopeful the outbreak could end in 2015, though he cautioned that the fight to contain the disease is not...

I was 18-months-old when my parents noticed that I was drinking more than usual and that I was losing instead of gaining weight. I was taken to a diabetologist, but she thought that the symptoms were...