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Four medal-winning U.S. gymnasts shared their stories on Wednesday of being sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.

French Soccer Player Dies After 39 Years in Coma Sept. 7, 2021Jean-Pierre Adams, a French soccer player who spent 39 years in a coma after a botched knee operation, has died, CNN reported. He was 73.Adams injured his knee in 1982 and went to a hospital in Lyon for surgery. At the time, many staff members were on strike, CNN said.  "The female anesthetist was looking after eight patients, one after the other, like an assembly line," his wife Bernadette, told CNN in 2016."Jean-Pierre was supervised by a trainee, who was repeating a year, who

An academic dean who recently led an American university in Kabul says, "The people of Afghanistan are losing one of their most valuable national assets — the scientific mind."

A CDC analysis found some infections rose nationally by as much as 48% during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Efforts to improve diversity and equity in academic medicine have been “moved to the back burner” in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, despite a growing need to address racial disparities, said the top diversity expert at the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Improvements in tissue matching, organ distribution systems, surgical techniques, immune-suppressing medicines and after-transplant medical care have helped contribute to better survival rates.

The CDC is launching a new hub to watch for early warning signs of future infectious outbreaks.

A deadly case of the Marburg virus has been identified in Guinea, the first-time in the West Africa region.

A new monoclonal antibody discovered and developed at the National Institutes of Health safely prevented malaria for up to 9 months in people who were exposed to the malaria parasite.

Discovering that you have cancer would usually have taken place in a doctor’s office – but not anymore. Now that patients have immediate access to clinical notes, some learn of their diagnosis electronically.

The new fabric repels mosquitoes without chemical insecticides, according to scientists who tested the outfits on volunteers who sat in a Plexiglas enclosure with 200 hungry mosquitoes.

The fourth U.S. case of melioidosis -- a rare and potentially fatal bacterial disease -- has been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New researchers reveals U.S. gun sales increased early in the COVID-19 pandemic, and many of those firearms ended up in homes with teens.

The machines are so tall, scientists climb to reach the top to conduct experiments that experts say will advance health research and drug development.

A new WebMD poll shows that members of minority communities are more uneasy about discussing sensitive topics, like race-related issues and sexual orientation, with doctors.

For the sixth consecutive year, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claimed the number one spot in the annual honor roll of best hospitals published today by U.S. News & World Report.

Black patients have a higher rate of adverse safety events than white patients when they are admitted to the same hospital, regardless of insurance coverage type or the percentage of hospitalized patients who are Black, according to a new Urban Institute study.

The CDC says an untreatable "superbug" fungus is spreading in a Washington, D.C., nursing home and two Dallas-area hospitals.

A new study finds the U.S. medical field is less dominated by white men than it used to be, but there are still few Black and Hispanic doctors, dentists and pharmacists.

Dozens Contaminated After Chemical Leak at Water Park July 19, 2021More than 100 people were contaminated over the weekend because of a chemical leak at the Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Splashtown water park in Spring, TX., TV station KPRC reported, citing local health officials.First responders decontaminated most of the people at the site. Thirty-one people were taken to area hospitals for treatment, including a 3-year-old child, while 55 people refused transport, the Harris County Fire Marshal’s office told the station.Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo told ABC News that the child was in stable condition at Texas Children's

A new study in Canada found that patients cared for by female physicians had lower in-hospital death rates than those who had male doctors.

As temperatures across the U.S. surge to historic -- and deadly -- levels, experts recommend knowing the signs and symptoms of heat illness.

Florida-Based Doctor Arrested in Haiti President’s Assassination July 13, 2021A Haitian-born doctor, who was based in Florida for more than two decades, has been arrested as a central suspect in the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse, according to The New York Times.About two dozen people have been arrested as suspects, the newspaper reported, though police believe Christian Emmanuel Sanon, 63, was plotting to become president.“He arrived by private plane in June with political objectives and contacted a private security firm to recruit the people who committed this act,” Léon Charles, Haiti’s national police chief, said during

Immigrants to the U.S. are healthier and have better health outcomes on average than native-born Americans, according to a new study in the journal Health Affairs.

Almost 200 People at Zoo May Have Been Exposed to Rabid Bat Rabies shots have been recommended for 186 people who may have been exposed to a rabid bat while staying overnight at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.A camper woke up July 4 in the aquarium and found a bat flying around her head, The Associated Press reported.  No bites or scratches were found, but the zoo located seven wild bats in the aquarium. The bats were euthanized and one tested positive for rabies, the Associated Press saidThe zoo recommends that the 186 people who stayed overnight