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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — One person has died in connection with an E. coli outbreak linked to a popular pumpkin patch on California's Central...
Flu season is arriving earlier than usual across much of the U.S., with Louisiana reporting the highest flu activity in the nation. Doctors say a...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's measles outbreak, the largest in the country, has passed 1,500 cases. Health officials are increasingly...
International health experts began meeting this week to decide whether the United States has lost its measles-elimination status. If they rule that it...
Eli Lilly's experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide significantly reduced knee pain and improved physical function in people with obesity and...
SUNDERLAND, England — Routine eye tests could soon help detect diabetes and heart disease before symptoms appear, under a new British research...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has opened applications for its next class of astronauts, the first group recruited specifically to help build and staff...
ALBANY, N.Y. — Flu season has arrived early in New York, with cases and hospitalizations climbing sharply in recent weeks, state health officials...
MADISON, Wis. — An infant has died of measles in southwestern Wisconsin, state health officials said, the state's first measles death in more...
ATLANTA — The United States has recorded more than 5,000 measles cases this year, the highest total in 35 years, as outbreaks spread across most of...
PHILADELPHIA — More American parents are declining a routine vitamin K shot for their newborns, and cases of dangerous bleeding in infants are...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania health officials confirmed a sixth measles-associated death on Wednesday as the state's outbreak, the largest in...
LOWVILLE, N.Y. — A child in rural northern New York has died after contracting measles, state officials announced Monday. It is the state's...
CHICAGO — Energy drinks and stimulant supplements showed up far more often than other products in federal reports of cardiac arrest, heart attacks...
A report that Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin planned to charge $200,000 or more for rides to space has been circulating again online. But anyone hoping...
More than half of younger adults with type 2 diabetes who followed an intensive, medically supervised program of low-calorie eating and structured...
The Food and Drug Administration has classified a recall of Miyoko's Creamery European Style Salted Plant Milk Butter as Class II after the...
Four leading medical organizations on Monday published a coordinated framework that ties the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in...
LONDON, — An artificial intelligence system can detect subtle signs of pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans more than a year before patients are...
Eli Lilly's tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, produced substantially more weight loss than Novo Nordisk's Wegovy in the first...
Fish oil supplements taken by millions of people in hopes of protecting their memory did not improve thinking skills or slow brain shrinkage in older...
Doctors are urging Americans 6 months and older to get vaccinated against the flu after an unusually early rise in cases on the West Coast, driven by...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 32 payloads into orbit early Tuesday, lighting up the morning sky over Central...
TANEGASHIMA, Japan — Japan launched its Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft on an H3 rocket early Tuesday, beginning a five-year mission to land on...
VERSAILLES, France — The world's official timekeepers voted Thursday to abolish the leap second, the occasional one-second adjustment that has...
BALTIMORE — Older adults who nap frequently, fall asleep during the day without meaning to or take short naps may face a higher risk of developing...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Miniature human organs are on their way to the International Space Station for the first time, in an experiment researchers...
LONDON — Women with autoimmune diseases are substantially more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychological or psychosomatic and face...
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon mother of six has filed a $68.5 million medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that doctors failed to detect and treat a...
PORTLAND, Ore. — That bowl of chips in front of the television at midnight may be doing more harm than expanding your waistline. A large new study...
LOS ANGELES — Four astronauts from the United States, France and Russia returned to Earth on Thursday, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the...
WASHINGTON — Many Americans who were told their iron levels were normal may in fact be iron deficient under new diagnostic standards from the...
People with Parkinson's disease who reported more hours of physical activity each week had slower declines in movement and in thinking over as...
NEW YORK — PepsiCo has recalled more than 122,000 cases of Gatorade sold in 37 states because the sports drinks contain artificial yellow dyes that...
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists are making progress toward a goal that has eluded HIV researchers for more than four decades. In small trials, they have...
CHICAGO — The neighborhood that became the Milky Way may have started as thousands of smaller galaxies, some bursting with stars and some shining...
WASHINGTON — Nearly six decades after world powers agreed that no nation could claim the moon, a new race to settle its surface is testing whether...
About one in eight new cancer cases worldwide is linked to an infection, and most of that burden could be reduced with vaccines and treatment already...
PHILADELPHIA — Most Americans do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism, according to a new national survey, though the share rejecting the...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful tools in the search for treatments that slow or even reverse aging, with recent...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's measles outbreak continued to grow on Monday, with the state reporting 68 new infections since last Wednesday,...
Romania drinks more alcohol per person than any other country, followed by Georgia and Latvia, according to the most recent internationally comparable...
WASHINGTON — One in three working-age Americans with private health insurance say they are paying off medical debt, according to a survey released...
STARBASE, Texas — SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship megarocket on Monday in an attempt to reach orbit for the first time, a 10-hour test...
NEW YORK — Overall drinking among U.S. adults edged down after 2022, but people ages 50 to 64 kept drinking more — and more of them drank heavily...
BOSTON — A rare inherited change in the EGFR gene was tied to a sharp rise in lung cancer risk, including among people who have never smoked,...
SAN DIEGO — San Diego County health officials are urging residents to take precautions against mosquito bites after West Nile virus cases surged to...
Going without sleep makes it significantly harder to concentrate and learn new information, but a new study suggests a short bout of exercise may...
DENVER — Federal and state health officials are warning the public about a new and dangerous synthetic opioid called cychlorphine, following a...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Doctors are urging patients to get vaccinated against influenza before flu activity begins climbing this fall, warning that...