There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly ...

A growing and ageing population, combined with mounting pressure on the NHS, is thought to be contributing to the rise, ...

For the second time this year, an Iowa senator has been diagnosed with cancer. Sen. Dave Rowley, R-Spirit Lake, said in a news release Feb. 23 that he has recently been diagnosed with tonsil cancer.

Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation The human body, it turns out, is surprisingly good at making stone. Give it enough time and the right ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

Leanna Munir was a 6-year-old bundle of energy two years ago, until one day her vim and vigor vanished without warning. "I couldn't force her to come in the house after school or sit down," recalled ...

Repeated colds and fatigue led doctors to think she might have strep throat or tonsil problems, but it wound up being something far worse — leukemia. But Leanna, now 8, survived her cancer and is ...

“I couldn’t force her to come in the house after school or sit down,” recalled her mom, Adrian Horn. “Then, she just started slowing down a lot and it was not like her. So that’s how we knew something ...

So that’s how we knew something was wrong.” Repeated colds and fatigue led doctors to think she might have strep throat or tonsil problems, but it wound up being something far worse — leukemia. But ...