MEDICINE

Celebrity chef Sandra Lee, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's girlfriend, is resting after undergoing a double mastectomy Tuesday.

Kids with asthma would benefit from a test for peanut sensitivity, especially when wheezing and coughing are difficult to control.

India's Supreme Court refused to let Aruna Shanbaug, who was in a vegetative state since she was raped in 1973, be euthanized.

Guinea is still struggling with the final phase of its Ebola outbreak.

The conservative country is looking to enact the controversial legislation in part to help crack down on birth defects and diseases.

Liberia was declared Ebola-free, but the virus still effects thousands of children who have become orphans due to the deadly disease.

Under the FDA's current policies, men practising gay sex since 1977 are prohibited from donating blood.

Researchers warn that a form of antibiotic-resistant typhoid is rapidly displacing other strains in parts of Asia and Africa.

The collapse of Liberia's weak health-care system under Ebola left few resources to address other threats such as polio and measles.

Singers Toni Braxton and Seal both have the autoimmune disease, which can be debilitating.

An artist in Darwin, Australia, created a design to hide a client's scars from a double mastectomy.

Liberia is leaving behind the Ebola outbreak, but the social, political and economic challenges are just beginning for the West African nation.

Unprotected sex may allow the deadly virus to be transmitted by survivors as many as six months after their recoveries, the CDC warns.

Scientists have found that a specific class of drugs known as calcilytics, originally used to cure osteoporosis, could reverse reactions that cause asthmatic symptoms.

The latest finding is unlikely to diminish controversies amid an ongoing battle in the U.S. about immunizations.

The $249 saliva-based test promises access to women who couldn’t previously afford to be screened.

Laboratory results have ruled out Ebola and other viruses as the cause of an illness that has left at least 18 people dead in a matter of days.

With no new measles cases reported in California in 42 days, state health officials are turning their attention to preventing the next outbreak of the disease.

Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone are recovering from the deadly outbreak -- but not everyone is benefiting, World Bank data show.

Traces of the virus were found in a man's semen six months after he was declared infection-free, the World Health Organization said.

Most scholarships are awarded annually, but a few are given out more frequently.