MEDICINE

South Korea has so far isolated over 1,312 people, suspected to have contracted the deadly disease.

The two cases are the first MERS-related deaths reported in the country.

By Monday, 682 of the 715 people who have been in close contact with MERS patients were put in isolation.

A new procedure could help thousands of women with breast cancer avoid a second surgery.

The potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Disease has hit China via a traveler from South Korea, where there are 10 confirmed cases.

It's a harrowing condition that is practically unheard-of in the U.S. and other Western nations, yet it affects 2 million women in developing countries.

While the New York governor and his cancer-stricken partner, Sandra Lee, publicly tout cancer prevention, health advocates say he has repeatedly tried to cut funding for cancer screening.

Nearly 35 percent of Americans suffer from a cluster of obesity-linked health problems, which are collectively classified as “metabolic syndrome.”

Celebrity chef Sandra Lee, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's girlfriend, is resting after undergoing a double mastectomy Tuesday.

Kids with asthma would benefit from a test for peanut sensitivity, especially when wheezing and coughing are difficult to control.

India's Supreme Court refused to let Aruna Shanbaug, who was in a vegetative state since she was raped in 1973, be euthanized.

Guinea is still struggling with the final phase of its Ebola outbreak.

The conservative country is looking to enact the controversial legislation in part to help crack down on birth defects and diseases.

Liberia was declared Ebola-free, but the virus still effects thousands of children who have become orphans due to the deadly disease.

Under the FDA's current policies, men practising gay sex since 1977 are prohibited from donating blood.

Researchers warn that a form of antibiotic-resistant typhoid is rapidly displacing other strains in parts of Asia and Africa.

The collapse of Liberia's weak health-care system under Ebola left few resources to address other threats such as polio and measles.

Singers Toni Braxton and Seal both have the autoimmune disease, which can be debilitating.

Liberia is leaving behind the Ebola outbreak, but the social, political and economic challenges are just beginning for the West African nation.

Unprotected sex may allow the deadly virus to be transmitted by survivors as many as six months after their recoveries, the CDC warns.

Scientists have found that a specific class of drugs known as calcilytics, originally used to cure osteoporosis, could reverse reactions that cause asthmatic symptoms.