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So-called "Patient Zero" was not, in fact, the first person in North America to contract the virus.

Two researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Boston Children’s Hospital recently designed a contact lens that delivers medication directly to the eye.

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome are so obscure that most doctors have never heard of them.

A recent study of Ebola patients revealed a surprising finding.

From 2010 to 2015, people in a small region of Kazakhstan were feeling very, very sleepy.

"This is, at least at the moment, a bridge to a cure until a biological cure is found.”

The research, published recently in Science, could open the door to targeting other autoimmune diseases.

Scientists found that malaria-carrying mosquitoes avoided chickens and the smell of chickens, which might make the birds (or even just their odor) an effective repellent.

When the AI's interpretation was combined with human assessments, the cancer detection accuracy rate approached 100 percent.

It would be the second human disease after small pox to be eliminated.

A recent report found health or safety violations in 80 percent of inspected facilities in five states.

The history of canine transmissible venereal tumor is a weird one.