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When given their choice of contraceptives for free, almost three-quarters of sexually active teenage girls chose long-acting options like the IUD or hormonal implants, a study finds.

Doctors continue to monitor people who may have come in contact with the Texas man being treated for Ebola in a Dallas hospital. The CDC says the patient…

Researchers have developed a technique to jump-start the body's systems for creating blood vessels, opening the door for potential new treatments for…

Efforts to calm public fear about Ebola continue to top news headlines this week. The practice of what’s called ‘contact tracing’ shifted to the state of…

We started our show this week reporting on the continuing spread of Ebola, but two other respiratory viruses also made health news headlines this week:…

The toddler was reportedly brought by her grandmother from neighboring Guinea, where the epidemic is raging.

Obese occupants of a vehicle are up to 78 percent more likely to die in a car crash than someone of average weight, says the CEO of Humanetics, the world's largest maker of crash test dummies.

The 29-year-old was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor and moved to Oregon because it allows terminally ill people to end their lives with the assistance of a doctor.

INDIANAPOLIS -- How do parents decide whether to vaccinate their child? In a study designed to formally look at the content of parent-targeted…

In 1976, scientist Peter Piot was part of the team that discovered the Ebola virus. The epidemic today in West Africa, he says, is "absolutely unexpected and unprecedented."