US life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county

Minnesota health officials said Monday that Somali families in the state had been “targeted with misinformation” about vaccines as the number of measles cases neared 50.

In what sounds like a clichéd horror movie premise, a recent investigation suggests as many as 7,000 bodies are buried across 20 acres at the Mississippi Medical Center Campus—the former site of the state’s first mental institution.

A lethal new drug dubbed “gray death” by authorities that is dangerous to even touch with gloves is being eyed in overdose cases across Georgia, Alabama and Ohio.

“Scientists studying cancer stumble on ‘breakthrough’ in search for baldness cure,” announces The Daily Telegraph, adding that not only does this mean “a cream or ointment may soon cure baldness or stop hair turning grey” but also it could one day …

A marijuana plant is seen at Toez indigenous reservation, in the rural area of Caloto, department of Cauca, Colombia, on May 23, 2016.

Cases of a dangerous tick-borne disease called the Powassan virus remain rare in New Jersey, with just three cases reported since 2013.

When several people died suddenly late last month in Liberia after attending a funeral in the southern county of Sinoe, alarm bells sounded: Had Ebola returned to West Africa?

(CNN) Grandparents who step in for child care tend to use the same practices they did when they were parenting, but some of them may be outdated, putting their grandchildren at risk, according to a new study.

Despite years of warnings to avoid putting the product into the ear canal, more than 263,000 children in the U.S. had to be treated in emergency rooms for ear injuries related to cotton-tip applicators between 1990 and 2010, a new study published in …

(Reuters Health) – Living in areas with higher total exposures to harmful pollutants in the air, water and land is associated with greater odds of developing cancer, a U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated the 2016 Zika virus recommendations for clinicians caring for asymptomatic pregnant women with possible Zika exposure on May 5. The updated guidance incorporates new data showing that …

The image on the left shows external robotic arm which moves above the body to guide the internal capsule, which is shown in the image on the right inside the pig colon.