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Federal prosecutors have charged Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, Theranos’s president and chief operating officer, with nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

While the company failed to deliver on its promise to revolutionize the industry, some testing has been slowly moving away from labs and into clinics.

The spray has been linked to four infections in Kansas, Minnesota, Texas and Georgia. Two children were infected, including one who died

A Texas jury has convicted former nurse William Davis on four counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of four men who’d had heart surgery.

AMC Entertainment, the world’s largest movie chain, is putting captions on big screens in movie theaters across the country, giving more access to those who are deaf and hard of hearing.

A device designed to detect disease from exhaled breath takes devices beyond alcohol measurement.

The FDA issued a landmark proposal Tuesday that would offer over-the-counter hearing aids to nearly 30 million Americans with mild-to-moderate hearing loss.

PFAS are a category of endocrine-disrupting chemicals that have been used for decades in a range of consumer products including cookware, stain-resistant clothes, fast food wrappers, treatments for carpets and furniture, and firefighting foams.

Los Angeles County is requesting that Vanessa Bryant and other family members have psychiatric tests to find the cause of their emotional distress after NBA star Kobe Bryant’s death.

Clinton, 75, was admitted to the University of California Irvin Medical Center and given IV antibiotics and fluids.

News reports citing unnamed sources say Biden may seek to put noted researcher Robert Califf back in charge of the FDA.

The National Health Service Corp. -- a program that helps find primary care doctors for communities that struggle to recruit and keep them -- will receive these funds.

By the researchers' estimates, 1.7 billion urban dwellers -- or almost one-fifth of the planet -- were exposed to a rising number of extreme heat days between 1983 and 2016.

A study shows that 85% of the global population has already experienced effects from climate change resulting from human activities.

Daily exposure to phthalates, which are synthetic chemicals founds in many consumer products, may lead to hundreds of thousands of early deaths each year among older adults in the U.S., according to a new study published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Pollution.

A wristband containing biometric monitoring sensors can pick up infection before symptom onset and predict the severity of the infection at the same time.

Doctors removed a 4-inch piece of cement from a man’s heart, which had leaked into his body from a spinal surgery, according to a new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Inventor Easton LaChappelle was just 14 when he built his first robotic arm. Today, his company creates lower-cost prosthetic limbs for people who need them.

The family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. for profiting from the nonconsensual use of her cells.

Nurse Fired After Posting Photo of Baby With Birth Defect Oct. 5, 2021A neonatal intensive care nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami  has been terminated after she posted two photos of a baby born with birth defects to social media. The hospital said Sierra Samuels violated the patient’s privacy by posting the photos on her Instagram account, according to Insider.One photo had the caption: "My night was going great then boom!" and included a picture of the child in the neonatal intensive care unit, Insider said, citing WFOR.A second caption read: "Your intestines 'posed to be inside

Lawsuit Says Baby Died Because of Hospital Ransomware Attack Oct. 4, 2021 -- A woman has sued an Alabama hospital, alleging her newborn baby didn’t receive proper care and eventually died because of a ransomware attack at the hospital.Teiranni Kidd says she was not informed the Springhill Medical Center in Mobile was in the middle of a ransomware attack when she checked in to have her baby in July 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported.The Wall Street Journal said the attack disabled computers on every floor of the hospital, made patient records inaccessible, and cut off the nurses’

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to two Americans for the discovery of temperature and touch receptors, possibly paving the way for the development of new, non-opioid pain killers, it was announced at a press conference.

As tuberculosis infections spread in schools, it was "almost as if the prime conditions for the outbreak of epidemics had been deliberately created," the official said.

Wrong-site or wrong-patient surgery is rare, but those events add up. Are the current safeguards not enough?

An Illinois man in his 80s who woke to a bat on his neck in mid-August has died of rabies, marking the first human case of the disease in the state in more than 65 years.