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Experts in India are raising red flags after discovering what they are calling totally drug-resistant tuberculosis.

What would you do if you ruptured your eardrum while on a trip out of town? If you go to ZocDoc, you can schedule a doctor visit right away.

What has been further ignored is the importance of thorough mastication and regular bowel movements. Constipation, exemplified by a bloated abdomen, has been closely linked with obesity and could be avoided by means of regular habits, abdominal exercises and a high fibre diet.

India is about to hit a milestone in its battle to eradicate the polio virus with no new cases reported in the past year.

Sarah Jones had her life intact – she was a successful professional NFL cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals, a beloved high school teacher and in a loving relationship with her high school sweetheart. Everything was perfect until her world turned upside down after an anonymous post on the gossip site, TheDirty.com. Jones’ will soon face those who trampled her reputation in court.

Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, is in stable condition after a tumor twice his weight was removed from his right leg. The operation, headed by U.S. surgeon McKay McKinnon, successfully removed the tumor after 12 hours in the OR. But how did the tumor get to be that size? According to McKinnon, Hai has neurofibromatosis, a disease that causes disfiguring tumors to form on nerves throughout the body.

Login credentials of 45,000 Facebook users have been leaked out worldwide by the Ramnit malignant code which has invaded the world's No. 1 social network service. The biggest victims were users from the UK and France. The intrusion and theft were discovered by 'Seculert', a cyber threat management service.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a joint statement, have confirmed there is no need to recall the powdered infant formula manufactured by Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. The agencies tested sealed cans of the Enfamil formula and found no traces of the Cronobacter contamination it was reported to have.

A 60-year-old Barnstable County resident has contracted rabies and been admitted to hospital in critical condition. The case is the first such in the state of Massachusetts for over 70 years, according to a Department of Public Health (DPH) release

Fashion blogger and model Lauren Scruggs, 23, is slowly recovering after suffering serious injuries from a near-fatal accident with a plane propeller. Scruggs' mother, Cheryl, shed light on her daughter's recovery on the website CaringBridge.com late Wednesday.

Long before the latest global breast implant scare, American health officials were toying with the idea of building a registry that would track patients with implants.

Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. (NYSE: MJN) has confirmed the safety of its Enfamil infant formula saying that new tests did not detect the presence of Cronobacter (Enterobacter sakazakii) in the product.

Enfamil Pulled from Shelves: Alternative Infant Feeding Formulas

The share value of Mead Johnson Nutrition has come down following reports that Wal-Mart pulled Enfamil Newborn formula powder from over 3,000 stores.

Grammy-winning R&B singer Etta James is terminally ill, her live-in physician said in an interview this week that confirmed reports of the singer's fading health.

As longtime manager Lupe De Leon confirms that the legendary blues and R&B singer is dying of leukemia, Etta James' live-in doctor is asking fans to pray for her, saying her cancer is now incurable. James, best known for instant classics like love song At Last, released a final album, The Dreamer, only two and half years ago.

The Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals recently issued a warning about the potential dangers of improper neti pot use, following the death of two local residents from so-called brain-eating amoeba.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) will sharply curtail medical research studies using chimpanzees, humans' closest relative in the animal kingdom, after an expert panel said such studies are rarely warranted.

New DNA tests looking for the virus responsible for most cases of cervical cancer make sense for all women aged 30 or over, since they can prevent more cases of cancer than smear tests alone, Dutch researchers said on Thursday.

Elsa Then purposely performed botched surgeries after preying on Hispanic women.

Researchers gave an epidemiological look Tuesday into the reasons and risks behind stillbirths and opened possible ways to prevent the devastating deaths of an estimated one out of every 160 pregnancies that predominantly affects black women.