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The pediatrician long celebrated for his pioneering work in autism was a participant in Nazi killings, a report says. 

Anyone who purchased contaminated eggs is asked to return them to the store and get a full refund.

Jerome Hamon’s body rejected his first face transplant.

Environmental Working Group ranks the pesticide contamination of fruits and veggies every year.

Train cars containing millions of pounds of human poo have sat in an Alabama railyard since February.

The Galveston County Health District said it’s working with the Department of State Health Services to figure out how many people are possibly at risk.

Tens of thousands of people who attended a national cheerleading competiton have been told to look out for signs of the mumps after an infected person attended the championship last month. 

Opioid overdoses went up 30% from July 2016 through September 2017 in 52 areas in 45 states, the CDC says.

Southern states have been especially hard hit with 33 of the 114 pediatric deaths taking there.

Simple medical tests or procedures such as MRI's or blood tests could vary in costs by the hundreds at different medical facilities. 

Doctors could soon use tiny robots to fight cancer.

Researchers are optimistic about the vaccine helping cancer patients after successfully testing it on mice.

The FDA reported that among the lots recalled are powerful painkillers Fentanyl and morphine, as well as Oxytocin, which is commonly used to induce labor.

A Kentucky OBGYN found herself jumping into action on a day she was at the hospital as a patient, ready to have her own baby.

A kind of makeup aimed at girls and tweens has been found to contain asbestos, a deadly poison.

Modern Family star Sarah Hyland says she's unhappy about being so skinny and is not anorexic but declined to specify the health issues she's battling.