INFECTION

On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood.

Moms require more training and education in handling a humidifier in a child's room during cold and flu, says a survey conducted by the Vicks Humidifiers.

Researchers predict a surge in Lyme disease infections this coming spring and summer.

The Brown Recluse spider has spread a widespread fear across the nation after a 21-year-old student of Texas Christian University, Nikki Perez was reportedly by one and she almost lost her sight and an ear. Experts are now considering naming it the most dangerous species among spiders, perhaps even more dangerous than the widely-known Black Widow.So what exactly happens when a person gets bitten? How can you identify a Brown Recluse Spider?

The two-year-old severely battered Baby Falak lost the fight for life and has died 56 days after she was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre, Delhi, India.

On the heels of Dwight Howard's decision to stay in Orlando just a few hours before the 2012 NBA trade deadline, a flurry of teams made deals, including some within the 11th hour, to shake things up.

Ashley Judd is the latest in a string of celebrities to be accused of getting plastic surgery after she appeared on a Canadian talk show with her face looking noticeably puffy. She is one in a long line of celebrities accused of the pillow face look.

Ashley Judd is the talk of Hollywood and the Internet for being seen with a puffy face during a recent appearance, sparking rumors about plastic surgery, which her rep denied. On Monday, 43-year-old Judd appeared on a Canadian television show to promote her new television series, Missing, and was almost recognizable with a swollen face though she maintained her svelte figure.

Giving iPads to doctors-in-training helped them be more efficient at ordering tests and procedures for their patients in a new study from one university program.

Giving iPads to doctors-in-training helped them be more efficient at ordering tests and procedures for their patients in a new study from one university program.

Scientists, stymied for decades by the complexity of the human immunodeficiency virus, are making progress on several fronts in the search for a cure for HIV infections, a leading medical research conference was told this week in Seattle.

Circumcised men may have a slightly lower risk of developing prostate cancer than those who still have their foreskin, according to a new study.

Here are a couple of hilarious tweets after Bieber's death rumor stared trending on Twitter.

The privately held Sientra Inc. on Friday joined the publicly traded Allergan Inc. and Johnson & Johnson (Mentor Worldwide LLC) as the only three companies to have won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals to market controversial silicone gel-filled breast implants.

Majority of parents in the U.S. are neglecting an early eye check-up of their infants, the American Optometric Association's (AOA) 2011 American Eye-Q survey has revealed.

The HIV rate of black women living in some U.S. cities is as high as the rate in some African countries, according to a new study

Scientists have found a way to trick the immune system into accepting organs from a mismatched, unrelated organ donor, a finding that could help patients avoid a lifetime of drugs to prevent rejection of the donated organ.

Legislators passed a controversial bill this week in the Utah Senate, which would allow public schools to offer an abstinence-only sexual education curriculum - or no sex-ed program at all. The measure would prohibit Utah public schools from teaching students that contraceptives can be used as a means of preventing pregnancy and infection from sexually transmitted diseases. It would also ban teachers from discussing homosexuality.

A research group is proposing a new tool in the fight against drug-resistant bacteria: turn infections into a rare disease.

Twenty-three-year-old Adam Spencer of Oregon was happily travelling through South America with his new fiancé, Shalynn Pack, when a scab appeared on his face. What Spencer didn't realize was that this scab wasn't a normal wound, but instead a horrifying flesh-eating parasite.

A Brooklyn mother of two who had her hands and feet amputated as a result of a hospital's negligence has won a $17.9 million settlement from the hospital and the city. 35-year-old Tabitha Mullings will receive $9.4 million from Brooklyn Hospital Center and $8.5 million from the city after a three-year legal battle, according to the NY Daily News.