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People who follow the "five-second rule" may be better off sticking to the phrase, "when in doubt, throw it out."

There may be a powerful new weapon in the fight against tuberculosis, a bacterial respiratory disease that kills an estimated 1.4 million people around the world each year.

People working evening shifts, irregular shifts, night shifts and rotating shifts are at an increased risk for heart attack and stroke, a large, new review finds.

Adding computed tomography (CT) scans to standard screening procedures may help emergency room staff more rapidly determine which patients complaining of chest pain are having a heart attack or may soon have a heart attack, and which patients can be safely discharged, according to a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

Colonies of bacteria that call your skin home may help direct your immune system to fend off pathogens and other threats, new research in mice suggests.

The frequent use of injections can add to the risk of Hepatitis infection.

Skin cancer is more common among white people, but people with darker skin are also at risk, a dermatology expert cautions.

Afghan health workers vaccinating children for measles and polio in District 5 of Kabul on 10 July 2012.

Medications can eliminate any sign of HIV from the bloodstream, but the virus that causes AIDS never vanishes for good. Instead, it hides in the body, waiting to strike again.

Severe social and physical neglect harms a child's brain development, but these effects can be partially reversed if the child is moved to a more positive environment, a new study indicates.