Thanks to increased pressure from the government, Medicare, and insurance companies, an increasing number of family doctors are closing their doors on private practice.
The two American missionaries who had contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia have been discharged from an Atlanta hospital. Dr. Kent Brantly called it a "miraculous day."
Being overweight and obese have been closely linked to 10 common cancers, according to the biggest study ever done on the relationship between cancer and body weight.
Mental and developmental disabilities are on the rise among children in the United States, but physical disabilities for problems like asthma are on the decline.
A Texas mother and son are giving all the glory to God for the young man's miraculous recovery.
The son of Nancy Writebol, the American nurse who contracted Ebola while working as a missionary in Liberia, said his mother is getting better.
Missionaries from the Charlotte, North Carolina-based SIM USA, who worked with Ebola patients in Liberia, will be returning to the United States.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now an international public health emergency, World Health Organization officials announced Friday.
The death toll is still rising from the Ebola virus in West Africa, with health experts calling it the worst outbreak of the disease the world has ever seen.
Scientists have discovered a link between a newly identified gene called PALB2 and breast cancer.