Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the...

The maker of the world's top-selling erectile dysfunction drug on Tuesday will begin airing the first Viagra TV commercial in America that targets the less-obvious sufferers of the sexual condition:...

Deaths from heroin overdose doubled in just two years in much of the United States, a new government study says. The annual number of U.S. drug overdose deaths has been growing for more than 20...

It was adieu to Jean Paul Gaultier's ready-to-wear. The one-time enfant terrible, who turned fashion on its head and Madonna's bra into a feminist symbol, gave his last curtain call Saturday to a...

The Obama administration is tightening oversight of high-stakes scientific research involving dangerous germs that could raise biosecurity concerns, imposing new safety rules on universities and other...

Brittany Maynard will not live to see if her advocacy makes a difference. The 29-year-old woman expects to die no later than Nov. 1. If the brain cancer from which she suffers does not kill her...

Two studies give disappointing news for parents looking for a way to prevent celiac disease in babies at higher risk for it because of family history. Neither breast-feeding nor timing the start of...

Patients are being kept at the hospital for an extra day until consultants review their blood test results and discharge them the next day, sources within Mater Dei told this newsroom. Sources...

The lack of parking spaces at the University of Malta is an issue which has been brought up ad nauseam. However, at the start of each scholastic year, students still make it a point to try and display their frustration. ...

One of the big frustrations of surgery: There's little way to know if a patient will be a fast or slow healer, someone who feels back to normal in a week or is out of work for a month with lingering...