More big news for same-sex couples: Starting next year, health insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny coverage to same-sex spouses.

The Pap test, the gold standard for detecting cervical cancer for 60 years, may be losing its luster.

An FDA advisory committee unanimously recommended this week that a particular HPV test become the first line of screening for the deadly disease.

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When Chokonjetsa was born, he weighed just over 2 pounds. His tiny, underdeveloped lungs struggled for each breath.

It's obvious beards are in, and the inability to grow thick warm fuzz can leave some men feeling left out in the cold.

Scientists hailed a new method of making stem cells as a breakthrough. But questions about the data used for the two studies published in Nature in January have led one of the co-authors to call for a retraction.

Roughly 24 hours after a video was posted Tuesday morning of President Obama sitting down for an appearance on comedian Zach Galifianakis' show "Between Two Ferns," more than 54,000 people have went to HealthCare.gov.

Andy Russick was on a flight to Phoenix late Tuesday when a man rushed up from the back of the plane and put a baby boy down next him.

The infant apparently had had a seizure, and the man was trying to save his life, Russick said. The medical emergenc...

Shawnee's voice is shrill, quavering -- on the edge of desperate. She clutches her 11-month-old son while trying to comprehend the situation unfolding in front of her.

Her boyfriend -- her child's father, Aaron -- is in handcuffs.

"Why are you doing th...

More than 4.2 million have signed up for insurance on the Affordable Care Act exchanges through February, leaving the administration with one more month to hit its enrollment targets.

No one is ever truly prepared to hear, "You have cancer" -- three little words that, despite impressive advances in treatment, immediately conjure up frightening images of hair loss, chronic nausea, surgery and even death.