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Health experts anticipated 214 dengue travel cases brought into the state from other countries. So far, the count is at 859, ...

A decade ago, Kari Leibowitz traveled to Tromsø, a city located above the Arctic Circle in Norway, to study a curious ...

Lucy Landman was born with a very rare genetic disorder that causes severe intellectual disability, weak muscles and seizures ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. But exactly how and when that happened -- and who ...

A group of women who've been walking their local mall together for decades share the ways their commitments to movement, and ...

Appointments with health professionals for obesity drug consultations are way up, according to data from Zocdoc, a provider of scheduling services.