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NEW YORK (AP) — A volunteer firefighter badly burned in a 2001 blaze has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When a 2-year-old returned sick from a visit to India, U.S. doctors suspected tuberculosis even though standard tests said no. It wo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants you to eat your fruits and vegetables. They also want the produce to be safe. Long-awaited rules anno...

San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf typically bustles this time of year as workers prepare to haul millions of pounds of Dungeness crab that are a tradi...

NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government's proposal Thursday to ban smoking inside and out of public housing nationwide got a decidedly mixed reaction f...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Linda Horan, diagnosed in July with late-stage lung cancer, says she may be dead before New Hampshire opens its first medical mar...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Many cancer treatments have a dark side — they can damage the heart. New research suggests this risk might be lowered in women wi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Concussion" delivers a hard hit to the NFL as it deals with data linking repeated blows to the heads of its players to dementia an...

Ninety-seven years ago, an armistice ended World War I, which was then the greatest conflict the world had ever seen. Armistice Day became Veterans Da...

SEATTLE (AP) — Chipotle said Tuesday that it is reopening the 43 Pacific Northwest restaurants it closed amid an E. coli outbreak after tests at the M...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — You can't buy hearts, kidneys or other organs but money can still help you get one. Wealthy people are more likely to get on mult...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Cheers erupted and people danced in the streets Saturday as Sierra Leone marked the end of the Ebola outbreak within its...

ATLANTA (AP) — The woman who allegedly impersonated a nurse and cared for Bobbi Kristina Brown at a hospice facility was accused of engaging in a simi...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Wounded Taliban fighters were being treated in a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan that was bombed by...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that growing, possessing and smoking marijuana for recreation is legal under the right to freedom....

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The execution of a Missouri man was in limbo Wednesday following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to halt the lethal injection short...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The crime was stunningly gruesome: three convenience store workers in central Missouri beaten to death with a claw hammer during a ro...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jimmy Carter resumed his role as Habitat for Humanity's most prominent booster on Monday, donning a white hard hat and a worn le...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Big Sugar and Big Corn face off in court this week in a bitter, multibillion-dollar battle of sweeteners that boils down to a mix o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Improvise isn't a word parents want to hear from their kid's doctor. Yet pediatric specialists too often have to jury-rig care becau...