An Arkansas man followed a "hunch" and bought a scratch-off lottery ticket from his favorite store that ended up earning him ...

David Rush teamed up with 11 tech industry workers to take on the world record for most balloons kept in the air for one ...

Hepatitis B is a virus that can damage the liver and lead to lifelong health problems. The hepatitis B vaccine prevents short-term illness (acute hepatitis) and a life-threatening infection called ...

Suze Lopez holds her baby boy on her lap and marvels at the remarkable way he came into the world. Before little Ryu was born, he developed outside his mom's womb, hidden by a basketball-sized ovarian ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) —Baby Walker Lichter came into this world this week. “It went really well. And we had a scheduled C-section, and everything went as planned,” Walker’s parents, Maggie and Dave ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

The mother, Suze Lopez, took a routine pregnancy test prior to a surgery. In what doctors in Los Angeles are calling a "medical miracle," a mother gave birth to a baby boy shortly after discovering ...

If you’ve ever owned a Conure, or known someone who has, you already know these birds are tiny clowns with big personalities, and even bigger opinions about where they want to hang out. In this ...

New research shows that an increasing number of newborns are not receiving a vitamin K injection designed to prevent excessive bleeding. The percentage of babies that did not receive a vitamin K shot ...

Vaccines aren’t the only near-miraculous medical intervention some Americans are turning their backs on. New research out today finds that more newborns are not receiving a safe supplement that ...

More American newborns are not receiving vitamin K shots, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that from January 2017 to December ...

U.S. federal guidelines currently recommend that all newborns get a dose of a hepatitis B vaccine, but a CDC advisory committee has voted to change that approach. Here’s what’s at stake. Today a ...