As many as 100 million people are infected by it each year, but we rarely hear about dengue fever in the United States because it mostly occurs in the tropics and subtropics. That was until a recent rash of cases erupted in Florida.
Cameras were there taping her birth, and three days later she was the star of her first press conference, with her face on every newspaper and news station in America. But Elizabeth Comeau doesnt want her new son to have the same world welcoming.
A Jacksonville nurse plans to sue the hospital where she works over the treatment she received for an infection that nearly killed her and caused her to lose fingers and parts of her legs.
The father of a 12-year-old girl critically injured after falling 100 feet at a Wisconsin Dells amusement park says his daughter is awake and stable, but likely will have some paralysis.
After seven years of "playing" with a tongue piercing by forcing it against her upper front teeth, one 26-year-old woman needed braces, costing thousands of dollars, to correct the fraction-of-an inch gap she had forced between those teeth.
A 49-pound woman, who suffers from a rare disease that makes her bones extremely fragile, shocked her doctors when she was able to give birth to a baby girl in May
As millions of teenagers get ready to go back to school this month, Jim and Sheila Fisher are urging parents to be extra vigilant when setting up their childrens school or athletic physicals.
A military veterinarian diagnosed with her post-traumatic stress disorder a condition that some experts say can afflict dogs just like it does humans.
Thanks to a Long Island surgeon, an Iraqi boy who was horribly maimed and disfigured after setting off an improvised explosive device in 2008 has been given back the childhood that had been violently stolen from him.
Obese people take more time off work for illness than their slimmer counterparts, a new study suggests, adding perhaps more incentive for employers to combat expanding waistlines in the workplace.
Despite Canada's universal healthcare system, poorer Canadians with cancer are more likely to die early than their wealthier peers, suggests a new study of almost 100,000 patients from Ontario.
