There's new evidence that colon-cancer rates have skyrocketed in people younger than 45. A team of researchers led by Dr. Islam Mohamed, a physician at the University of Missouri-Kansas City ...

The number of cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has spiked in the Big Apple since October, the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene warned, with a high of 51 cases in January.

Measles cases nearly doubled globally between 2022 and 2023, researchers say. There were 321,582 cases worldwide in 2023 - an 88% increase from the previous year, when 171,153 cases were ...

A Toronto officer has admitted he never saw drugs he claimed were in “plain view” inside a man’s car and then testified inaccurately at the preliminary hearing in the case, a police tribunal ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Health officials across the Philadelphia five-county region are warning people about a rise in Pertussis, also known as whooping cough. "It is highly contagious," Lora ...

Thousands of women develop the disease every year because of low breastfeeding rates or drinking too much alcohol, researchers found. They said the disease is still “poorly understood” by ...

Mpox cases have been on the rise in New York City, according to new data. Since Jan. 1, 149 people in the city have tested positive for the virus, the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ...

Prolonged exposure to polluted air with PM 2.5 particulate matter, which is 30 times thinner than a strand of hair, can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. A study by ...

Experts are warning of a ‘measles emergency’ as the country faces the biggest outbreak of the virus since 2012 – with new figures painting a grim picture for the months ahead. Almost 900 ...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has arrested a suspect who was connected to nearly two dozen cases. On March 27, police received a breaking and entering call at a retail store on Park ...

A commission of inquiry into bungled DNA testing at Queensland's main forensic lab, has heard testing thresholds were lowered, in part to save time.(ABC News: Malcolm Sutton) abc.net.au/news ...

Twenty-five years ago today, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killed 12 classmates and a teacher, wounded 21 more people, and ended their rampage with a double suicide.