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Here’s yet another reason not to overuse antibiotics: Children treated with the antibacterial drugs may face a greater risk for developing juvenile arthritis, new research ...

IN FEBRUARY 2012, LaVerne Stiles went to Citrus Memorial Hospital near her home in central Florida for what should have been a routine surgery. The bubbly ...

Which hospital parents pick to deliver their baby can have serious cost consequences, according to a new study. Hospital costs for women who had no maternal ...

Sunburns are painful and potentially cancer-causing, but that hasn’t stopped them from becoming an increasingly popular means of artistic expression. Experts are now speaking out ...

We are approaching the one year anniversary of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the monster viral fundraising campaign that not only broke the Internet but, more ...

California and Oregon will be the first states in the nation to allow women to get birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives directly from ...

Among women with a family history of breast cancer, breast cancer survivors tend to gain more weight than women who are free of the disease, ...

Next time you’re on the operating table and you have one last look around as the anesthesiologist approaches, don’t be too sure that that person ...

Most Tommy John surgeries to fix elbows torn in sports-related injuries are being performed on teenagers, especially baseball pitchers, and the numbers are rising every ...

About half of young children brought to hospitals with injuries indicating that they have been abused were not thoroughly evaluated for other injuries, and the ...