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The medical impact of the new coronavirus is coming into sharper focus as it continues its spread in what is now officially recognized as a pandemic. ...

Scientists have finally figured out how the key gene tied to obesity makes people fat, a major discovery that could open the door to an entirely new a...

An 18-year-old French teen born with the AIDS virus has had her infection under control and nearly undetectable despite stopping treatment 12 years ag...

Texas doctors say they have done the world's first partial skull and scalp transplant to help a man with a large head wound from cancer treatment. MD ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The move to make cancer treatments gentler for children has paid a double dividend: More kids are surviving than ever before, and witho...

CHICAGO (AP) — The federal government is launching a very different kind of cancer study that will assign patients drugs based on what genes drive the...

CHICAGO (AP) — A major study could change care for many of the hundreds of thousands of people each year who have cancer that spreads to the brain fro...

Millions of older people are getting tests they don't need to prove they are healthy enough to have cataracts removed, a new study finds. The excess t...

Stroke experts are reporting a major advance: Stents similar to the ones used to open clogged heart arteries also can be used to clear a blood clot in...