A Plug Instead of a Snip for Male Birth Control?

An Iranian infant in need of life-saving heart surgery has arrived at a Portland, Oregon, hospital with her family after being temporarily banned from coming to the U.S.

A mother’s desperate call on social media reunited her with a friend that she and her husband hadn’t seen in years – and gave their son a second chance at life.

In 2003, after his father died from a tobacco habit, a Chinese pharmacist named Hon Lik developed an electronic device to vaporize nicotine.

CARRBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina mother is furious after another woman allegedly breastfed her son without permission, WTVD reports.

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a non-profit medical research organization started by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg (and not to be confused with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a limited liability corporation to advance human potential) today …

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish academic Hans Rosling, a doctor and statistician who captured a worldwide audience with his witty style and original thinking on topics like population growth and development, has died at the age of 68.

Roll up your sleeves, America. A national advisory panel of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its 2017 advisory for recommended shots affecting adults.

The 42-year-old Indian woman was in deep slumber last Tuesday night until she awoke around midnight to a ”tingling, crawling sensation” in her right nostril.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Shawn Blazsek knew a string of concussions from high school football and boxing was catching up with him. He would go days without sleeping and was forgetting how to tie his shoes.

Relatives of a woman who gave birth weeks early in the Macomb County Jail say the delivery was improperly handled and want to see changes in how pregnant women receive medical treatment behind bars.

The 6-year-old boy in a Superman T-shirt and sneakers reached for the bell at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Our quest to raise money for Planned Parenthood taught us about sacrifice and staying the course. 02/07/2017 05:06 pm ET | Updated 10 hours ago.

TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Women who work night shifts or do heavy physical labor may be somewhat less fertile than other women, new research suggests.

They said it was only fat. But there was 130 pounds of it, as heavy as a newborn giraffe. What they said was fat descended from his stomach.

We recognize concerns over the use of suites, and have responded. Let us also reiterate our guiding principles and directives. By Michele Kelm-Helgen and Ted Mondale.

Marki Flannery I am Executive Vice President and Chief of Provider Operations at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. This post is hosted on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform.

This year’s severe influenza season has prompted El Camino Hospital to impose a visitor restriction policy; children under 16 and anyone exhibiting flu symptoms are asked to stay away from the Mountain View facility.

TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Though testing for two genes that raise breast cancer risk has been around for decades, a new survey finds many high-risk women don’t get the test, often because they aren’t told to by their doctors.