MEDICINE

Cutting back pollution in two key areas could save thousands of American lives per year, a study found.

New York Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who sponsored the medical marijuana legislation, said state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo intentionally made it difficult for needy patients to obtain legal pot. 

A new study suggested that acupuncture showed promising results for people dealing with incipient dementia.

A new study has found factors that effect the likelihood of breast cancer patients having reconstruction surgery.

The Triple E virus (Eastern equine encephalitis virus) has appeared in Tennessee. Is EEEV worse than Zika?

A new study indicates that generic forms of biologic drugs are effective. That could save patients money but be costly for some pharmaceutical companies.

Researchers find that despite having a low incidence rate, people of color are less likely to survive skin cancer.

"...I like to go adventure in the park and do stuff like that I ended up falling over," she said.

Findings from a new study may prompt the World Health Organization to remove transgender identity from its list of mental disorders in the next revision.

They follow news about the virus closely, but their knowledge of Zika is rather patchy, a poll indicates.

The painkiller and the cancer drug bind to a crucial part of the Ebola, which prevents the virus from attaching itself to the host cell thus avoiding an infection.

The first phase of human testing will involve 40 healthy subjects and is likely to start in a few weeks, Inovio Pharmaceuticals said.

The World Health Organization has declared an end to Ebola in Liberia — for the fourth time. Is the outbreak really over?

Though Republican John Kasich has opposed recreational marijuana, he has signed a medical marijuana bill into law.

Some treatments seem to work better when targeting a tumor's abnormalities rather than the organ where the cancer was initially detected.

Transfusions of infected blood were the cause of over 2,000 new cases of HIV infection since the beginning of 2015 in the world’s second-most populous country.

Nongovernmental organizations that address social problems like HIV are now in the Kremlin’s firing line — under a law signed by Vladimir Putin.

The World Health Organization's European region covers 53 countries and a population of nearly 900 million.

National Nurses Week 2016, beginning Friday, is a time to recognize the vital roles nurses play in hospitals and medical centers in the U.S.

Walgreens making the opioid overdose antidote easily accessible is seen as key to curbing the rising fatalities caused by drugs such as heroin and oxycodone.

The brain-destroying disease can be passed to humans who consume beef from infected cows.