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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.

Reports show 4,901 more murders committed in 2020 than in 2019. A total of roughly 21,500 people were killed last year, according to data from 16,000 law enforcement agencies across the country.

Evacuees of Afghanistan who have arrived in the United States must be vaccinated against measles and undergo quarantine for 21 days, according to a health advisory issued September 20 by the CDC.

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.