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Analysis shows no greater threat of addiction to alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, nicotine or other drugs.

A new study finds the most common in-flight medical emergency is fainting, but the chance a doctor is on-board your flight is about 50/50.

Those exposed to various pesticides, and people who live in rural areas, were a third to 80 percent more likely to develop Parkinson's disease, according to studies analyzed by the American Academy of Neurology. But urban dwellers face their own heal

Brand new labels are hitting store shelves this summer, so don't get burned. Here's how to pick the right sunscreen, and make sure it's actually preventing sunburn — and melanoma and other skin cancers.

Since 1991, rate has dropped by nearly half, health officials find.

Over an hour of CPR, 12 shocks from a defibrillator, and a town coming together saved Howard Snitzer's life.

A new minimally invasive hip surgery has patients healing faster.

Most heart attacks are caused by a buildup of plaque in the artery. But there is a rare and little-understood kind of heart attack that is much harder to detect.

Doctors perform thousands of angioplasties every year, threading a catheter through an artery to reach the heart. Typically they get in through the large femoral artery in the leg. But increasingly, they are using the radial artery in the wrist, wher

Study found boys with the disorder were twice as likely to have a higher body-mass index when they were men.

Anna Stoehr, 112 years old, is literally one in a million. How did she get here? Not by exercising.

Henry Cluney had several close calls playing political rock songs during the violent 1980s in Northern Ireland. But the real threat was growing silently inside his skull: a rare and slow-growing brain tumor called a 'subependymoma.'

Chris Christie kept his weight-loss surgery a secret. Billy Nungesser and Al Roker made a different choice.

Erin Youngerberg noticed a small mole, the size of a pencil eraser, on her back. She was told not to worry. But it was stage IV melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. Doctors went on to find tumors all over her body. This is her story.

How one couple battled colon cancer together.

A recent study has found that snoring could be a risk factor for potentially life-threatening illness.

One simple question is all it takes, expert task force finds.

There are far more people who need new lungs than there are lungs available. Many die waiting. Piper Beatty was determined to beat those odds, and her cystic fibrosis.

Even not-so-loud sounds seemed to raise people's heart rate in small study.

As if finding out you have cancer isn’t devastating enough, the myths still surrounding cancer can make it even harder to cope with a diagnosis.

Cell phone chats most common, but distractions also include grooming, Web surfing and child care.

Try these tips to make work less of a pain in the back.