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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday identified the recall of Avanos Medical Inc's artificial airway tube for children and infants as the most serious type, as its use could lead to serious injuries or death.

APOE4 is the strongest risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's, the most common form of the disease that develops after the age of 65, according to the National Institutes of Health. The disease afflicts more than 6 million people in the United States.

The day after her 22d birthday, a woman sits under a blanket clutching her abdomen in a room lit by a single lamp. A little more than 18 weeks pregnant, she has traveled nearly nine hours

People all over the world lost confidence in the importance of routine childhood vaccines against killer diseases like measles and polio during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from UNICEF.

China's ambitious plan to get its companies listed in London and Zurich stock markets needs fine-tuning, analysts say, as the sparse liquidity in traded Chinese companies there has created market arbitrage opportunities for investors.

Use of the drug misoprostol on its own to terminate pregnancies is on the rise in the United States as providers seek a preemptive alternative while a ban on abortion pill mifepristone is being considered in court.

Equatorial Guinea has confirmed 16 positive cases of Marburg disease since the beginning of the outbreak, the country's health ministry said on Thursday.

The death toll rose to 29 on Wednesday from a fire at a Beijing hospital that was one of the Chinese capital's deadliest in at least two decades, killing 26 patients and wounding dozens.

Abbott Laboratories said on Wednesday delayed non-urgent surgeries had resumed globally three years into the COVID-19 pandemic as hospital staff shortages eased and customers became regular with health check-ups, sending its shares up 5%.

Two thousand ambulance workers in Britain will stage fresh strikes next month, their union said on Wednesday, citing "strong indications" many of its members were unhappy with the government's latest pay offer.