Over the past decade the number of births involving surrogacy with donor eggs and sperm has surged. What does this mean for the mental and emotional health of the growing number of kids who may or may not know the truth about their distinctive origins? Full story
The lungs offered Wednesday to a dying girl whose transplant plight changed the nation’s organ allocation rules came from an adult donor, perhaps proving that her parents were right all along.
The Obama administration may have backed down after a decade of fighting over emergency contraception, but don’t expect to see Plan B, or any other morning-after birth control product, out from behind the counter anytime soon.
Probiotics — those products that promise to replenish your gut’s 'healthy' microbes — do seem to help prevent dangerous diarrhea, researchers reported on Thursday.
The Obama administration may have backed down after a decade of fighting over emergency contraception, but don’t expect to see Plan B, or any other morning-after birth control product, out from behind the counter anytime soon.
A 3-week-old girl was recovering Tuesday from life-saving brain surgery after Kansas surgeons used a sterile surgical glue to seal the infant's bleeding aneurysm.
Past research has indicated that women, as a group, are drawn to larger male members. But those results have been disputed as sexist, or scientifically flawed, or both. New research aims to settle the question of whether size matters.
Officials in West Hollywood, Calif., are warning members of the public to protect themselves against meningococcal infection after a 33-year-old man died.
For five years, the face of a dying Iraqi man, shot in the head, tortured Maj. Jeff Hall, once a sharp Army leader later shoved to his own ragged edge. But after he turned that image into a mask as part of an art therapy program at Walter Reed National Military Center, he began to let it go, he says.
The discovery of the three Ohio women is exactly the kind of hope that keeps parents of missing children going, long after their search has stopped making sense to us outsiders. Colleen Nick still posts fliers of her daughter, Morgan, who vanished 18 years ago at age 6.
Walking really is just as good for you as running – but only if you compare it in terms of calories burned and not merely on time spent, researchers reported on Thursday.
Less than two weeks after Angelina Jolie revealed she'd had a double mastectomy to avoid breast cancer, her aunt died from the disease Sunday. Debbie Martin, died at a hospital in Escondido, Calif., her husband, Ron Martin, said. She was 61.
