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A nasty collision during a kickoff in 1997 left Kevin Turner seeing stars.

In the New York town of LeRoy, more than a dozen people have suddenly developed uncontrollable twitching and verbal tics.

Paul Stamets was shy as a child; he couldn't look people in the eyes, so he stared at the ground. That's where he found mushrooms.

Doctors studying to become dermatologists have, for years, shared exam questions by memorizing and writing them down after the test to become board certified, CNN has confirmed.

Laura Stepp: Komen Foundation's decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood is a blow to poor women, who have no other option for reproductive health services.

Senior executive producer Roni Selig's personal and professional problems led to her eventually start the Fit Nation program at CNN.

Infants who undergo surgical procedures requiring general anesthesia in their first two years of life may be at increased risk of developing ADHD.

A series of viral outbreaks causing diarrhea and vomiting has affected scores of people in North Carolina in recent weeks, sickening them, but causing no fatalities, health officials there said Wednesday.

People sitting at the table with us have a subtle yet powerful influence on our eating habits, especially if we're trying to be agreeable or make a good impression, new research suggests.

Many of the health hazards of drinking too much alcohol are the same as eating too much sugar, researcher Laura Schmidt says -- that's why we should regulate them the same way.

Rep. John Dingell: A lot of our prescription drugs come from overseas. The FDA needs the authority to monitor foreign suppliers to prevent counterfeit or contaminated drugs from entering our market.

Details of a genetically altered strain of the deadly avian flu virus are "a grave concern" to public safety, a federal advisory board says.

Mark Osler says the landscape of abortion has changed in a way that should trouble even those who consider themselves pro-choice

As Kenya's leading psychiatrist, Frank Njenga has been championing the cause of better mental health care for more than three decades.

Mind over matter? Or nature over nurture? What is it that separates Olympic legends like Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps from the millions of enthusiastic amateurs around the world?

The cold hard reality is that America does not need to reform health care, it needs to transform health care, Dr. Otis Brawley says.

There isn't a government oversight committee dedicated to yoga practice. And that's because many practitioners prefer it that way.

A school system in upstate New York, where more than a dozen female high school students are suffering from uncontrolled verbal outbursts and twitching, said it has hired a company to review environmental testing within the school and community.

Johnson & Johnson announced Friday it is voluntarily recalling a single lot of Aveeno Baby Calming Comfort Lotion after a test by the Food and Drug Administration found it contained more of a form of bacteria than specifications allow.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had detained shipments of orange juice and concentrate from Brazil and Canada after finding traces of the unapproved fungicide carbendazim.