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Michael Scheuer was fired in June for alleged misconduct, the criminal complaint says, adding that the termination was contentious and not amicable.

Lindsay Pfeffer was in the backyard with her children when her son was bitten by a rattlesnake and needed antivenom medicine. Then the bills came.

Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.

The World Health Organization says more than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year. That’s the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track.

Team USA’s Suni Lee, who has earned six Olympic medals, has persevered despite battling kidney disease. Now, she’s looking to help others.

A high school senior from Bangor, Maine, has decided that when the time comes, he will donate his brain to science. Fionn Parker-Cummings is the youngest person to donate his brain to the University of Pittsburgh National Sports Brain Bank. Researchers will check in with him every year for the rest of his life. Parker-Cummings said he hopes the con...

“It may seem like every interaction with your kid is an opportunity to mess them up forever. And that’s just not true.”

A child born after loss is commonly referred to as a “rainbow baby,” but this term can sometimes be problematic.

The outbreak, likely linked to slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, joins a list of other E. coli incidents from fresh produce, especially precut, pre-washed fruits and vegetables.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the fall and winter seasons.

A multistate McDonald’s E. coli outbreak linked to slivered onions served on Quarter Pounders has expanded to even more states with additional people sickened, an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

McDonald’s previously said in a statement that early findings pointed to slivered onions on their Quarter Pounder as a possible source of the contamination.

An international group of health experts concluded that existing regulations globally are insufficient to protect the public from the potential harms of widely accessible gambling.