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DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The number of measles cases linked to an elementary school outbreak in South Florida has risen to six.The outbreak at Manatee Bay Elementar...

Sorrasak Jar Tinyo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In operating rooms across the country, more and more diabetics are receiving amputations due to complications from type-2 diabetes.The life-altering proced...

ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xolair as the first and only medicine for people with one or more food allergies after the clinical trial data f...

Penpak Ngamsathain/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over the last several years, isolated outbreaks of measles have been popping up across the United States. Most recently, between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. 23,...

skaman306/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Sixteen-year-old Jonathan Lubin loves basketball, playing the drums and going to the gym. But until recently, his parents worried he wouldn't live to see the age of...

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first medication to treat severe frostbite on Wednesday. Aurlumyn, manufac...

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- COVID-19 patients are at least four times more likely to develop chronic fatigue than someone who has not had the virus, a new federal study published Wedne...

ilbusca/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A pet owner has caught a rare case of the bubonic plague, health officials in central Oregon say, and it's believed they may have caught it from their cat. The Deschu...

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(NEW YORK) -- In a special council report released last week, President Joe Biden was described as an "elderly man with a poor memory," but doctors say it&rsq...

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An Alaska resident has died from complications of a relatively new and rare virus known as Alaskapox, according to a bulletin posted by Alaska stat...