Doctors performed a rare double hand transplant on a burn victim who is recovering Wednesday after the nearly 18-hour surgery.

Stripping is as easy as Demi Moore makes it look - and it'll make your sex life sizzle

A 41-year-old man in China has been dubbed "Hippo Man" after a facial tumor grew so large it pushed his eyes to the side of his head, AOL News reported.

Frog skin holds a potential source of antibiotics that could treat superbugs, according to a study from United Arab Emirates University.

A German pop singer who confessed to knowingly exposing two men to the risk of HIV after finding out she had the virus herself was convicted by a court on Thursday of grievous bodily harm.

Doctors in Argentina have removed a tumor from a woman that was so massive, it looked as if she was pregnant with quintuplets, a lead surgeon said.

Grammy-award winner and breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow opened a breast cancer detection facility in Los Angeles Tuesday at the same cancer center where she received treatment four years ago.

A 56-year-old chimpanzee has surprised officials at a zoo in northeast Kansas by giving birth

GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia was no riskier to the heart than a rival, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, a finding that contradicts earlier studies and adds new fodder to the roiling debate over the drug's safety.

U.S. health regulators plan to give restaurant companies more time to comply with new rules that require clear calorie and nutritional information on menus.

Health officials are urging parents to get their children caught up on vaccines before students head back to school this year as the whooping cough epidemic approaches its peak in California.

When it comes to working out, many men spend a lot of time planning the exact exercises they will perform, but neglect to consider their rest periods.

A Polish man living in Germany went about his business for about five years without noticing he had been shot in the head because he was drunk when it happened.

Experts have some simple advice when it comes to eating runny eggs these days: Run away.

A baby boy born 16 weeks premature has become the third infant to die after receiving an intravenous infusion tainted with bacteria at the University Clinic in the western German city of Mainz.

Food and Drug Administration officials said Monday that there is no evidence a massive outbreak of salmonella in eggs has spread beyond two Iowa farms, though a team of investigators is still trying to figure out what caused it.

Zemco industries, based in Buffalo, N.Y., is recalling 380,000 pounds of deli meats sold nationwide because of possible listeria contamination, the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced.

As Tiger goes from married dad to single dad, it's worth considering the role that new parenthood may have played in his woes.

A 10-month-old boy has been nicknamed the "Michelin baby" after ballooning to the weight of a 6-year-old, Chinese state media has reported.

More than one in three children studied - those forced to flee their homes because of the August 2005 storm - have since been diagnosed with mental health problems.