Unusual body odors aren’t always a cause for concern, but they can sometimes offer clues about what is happening inside the body.

Bedbugs are on the rise and they tend to be at their worst at this time of year.

A small but growing body of research shows that GLP-1 drugs often used to treat obesity may also work for the hormonal disorder known as PMOS.

A federal appeals court says President Donald Trump’s goal of ending gender-affirming care is not improper and cannot be the basis for quashing a subpoena.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel.

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has claimed at least 2,000 lives as it has become the fastest-growing on record.

Missy Mazzoli's opera “The Galloping Cure” explores the opioids epidemic through a haunting allegory.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots.

A coalition of farmers, consumer associations and environmental groups is urging Malaysia’s National Biosafety Board to reject a proposed field trial of genetically modified rice.

Most people have trouble sleeping for the first time in a new place.

A defense lawyer for the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children is questioning her psychiatrist's expertise, prescribing decisions and overall treatment.

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals.

A Georgia woman says she was wrongly diagnosed with aggressive cancer due to a labeling error and underwent an unneeded hysterectomy.

A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned on Memorial Day has been removed from life support and died.

Coffee has long been treated with caution in cardiology offices, largely because caffeine can temporarily raise heart rate and blood pressure.

Open-heart surgery has long been the standard treatment for severe aortic stenosis, a condition in which the heart’s aortic valve narrows and restricts blood flow. But cardiologists say a less-invasive procedure that was once reserved for the sickest patients is now available to a broader group — including some people considered low risk for traditional surgery.

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to overhaul Head Start, a key early education program for the nation's neediest children.

Sydney Towle, known for her social media content about living with a rare cancer, has died at 26.

Federal officials have traced a multistate salmonella outbreak to jalapeño peppers from a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico.

A Senate committee has voted along party lines to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. has seen a rise in cases of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, a nausea condition caused by heavy marijuana use.

Congolese health authorities have quarantined nearly 200 boat passengers near Kinshasa.

Six years after the world was thrust into a global pandemic, Republicans in power aren’t leaving it in the past.

Military officials say the majority of American troops wounded in the Iran war have suffered traumatic brain injuries.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are increasingly noticing the impact of extreme heat on their lives, and they say much of that shift is happening in the West and Midwest.

Scientists are creating a new kind of vaccine that teaches the immune system to intercept a type of brewing colon cancer before it turns into a full-fledged tumor.

The world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in Congo is still spreading faster than efforts to track it, according to the head of the World Health Organization.

The federal government is taking steps to shut down a Kentucky organ donation group accused of continuing plans for organ retrieval from some patients who unexpectedly showed signs of life.