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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd said on Sunday it had agreed to pay an $85 million settlement with the state of Oklahoma days before the company was set to face trial over allegations that it and other drugmakers helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic.

(Reuters Health) - Fatty liver disease that's not related to alcohol use is linked with an increased risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer, especially in people with diabetes, according to a large study from Europe.

Scientists studying a bacterium that causes scarlet fever, severe sore throat and a form of heart disease say they are closer to developing a vaccine that could one day prevent hundred of thousands of infections a year.

The United States recorded 60 new measles cases last week, taking confirmed cases for the year to 940, the worst outbreak since 1994 and since measles was declared eliminated in 2000, federal health officials said on Monday.

(Reuters Health) - Americans are consuming more energy drinks, with a notable increase among young adults, survey data show.

Radio presenter Mark Radcliffe tells BBC Radio 5 Live about the first symptom that lead to his cancer diagnosis.

Vietnam culled a further 500,000 pigs over the past two weeks to tackle an oubreak of African swine fever, taking the total killed so far to 1.7 million, or 5% of the country's herd, the agriculture ministry said on Monday.

Ashley says his childhood circumcision has left him physically and psychologically damaged.

Nurses at a hospital in Dorset speak about the times they have been attacked by their patients.

A night shift in the hospital on the frontline of the fight against malaria.

A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman give birth on the side of the road in Bangkok.

Americans have become more supportive of abortion rights over the past year, even as a wave of Republican-controlled state governments have imposed new restrictions, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday.

(MedPage Today) -- But low-ranking hospitals had nearly double the risk

Changes in hormones can have big effects on the body and how we behave.

(MedPage Today) -- Let's do what it takes to make sure patients actually show up