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The opening bars of Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” echo through a bustling therapy gym as 13-year-old Courtney Turner practices her physical therapy…

Getting Right, Part 4: A Person Struggling With Addiction Wakes UpRead the entire Getting Right series.It’s early in the morning, and Kevin Polly is…

The Food and Drug Administration exercised its regulatory power to compel a tobacco company to stop selling cigarettes after the maker failed to show they don't raise new public health issues.

With South Florida emergency rooms overflowing and body counts rising, the only way to halt an epidemic of abuse of the designer drug Flakka is education…

In case you missed Wednesday's GOP presidential debate, Jeb Bush confessed he smoked pot "40 years ago" and Rand Paul defended a state's right to legalize…

The Affordable Care Act passed its second major test before the Supreme Court Thursday. In King v. Burwell the Supreme Court upheld a key measure of the…

Kids' fast-food habits haven't budged in the past 15 years, a study by the CDC finds. The marketing, cost and taste of fast food still seem to have a hold on America's youth.

AnneMarie Zagari found her teenage son unresponsive on the couch after he took too many opioid painkillers in 2011. She began pounding his chest and…

Americans with health insurance are more likely than the uninsured to have their diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure diagnosed— and to have…

Obesity has leveled off in most states but it's still a major problem, with over 30 percent of Americans struggling with bulging waistlines and associated…