Using bat poop to fertilize plants like cannabis can sometimes have deadly consequences. A report highlights two fatal cases that affected m...

A fear of being alone triggered my new habit. It was almost the holidays, and another good friend - one of the few left unmarried - became e...

NAIROBI: The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of antiret...

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Measles, a highly infectious and preventable disease considered eliminated in the U.S. a quarter century ago, is now spreading in at least t...

A friend called recently asking about measles. She’s the mother of four very young kids and wanted to know if she should be worried. She’d h...

I received the following email from Doug Brooks, who gardens in Claremont.“For years, I have used some type of yearly insect control produc...

Authorities in Santa Fe, New Mexico, provided an update on the mysterious deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, with off...

The U.S. public health system has long been under strain, stymied by declines in funding as well as employees. And so state and local public...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to launch a study on connections between vaccines and autism, despite extensive researc...

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — It took five years for Crystal Burke to put a name to the symptoms that haunted her.He...

LONDON — Friday marks three weeks since Pope Francis was hospitalized for bronchitis, which then led to double pneumonia. He was also treate...

LONDON (AP) — Friday marks three weeks since Pope Francis was hospitalized for bronchitis, which then led to double pneumonia. He was also t...

An unvaccinated adult in New Mexico has died from measles, local health department officials reported Thursday, marking the second death so...