St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver had a medical milestone last weekend: 13-year-old Sikander Sakota surviving a potentially fatal heart disease, when he became the youngest patient in the world to receive the world's smallest heart pump.

Sahota started feeling ill last Saturday and was diagnosed with viral myocarditis, an infection that destroys heart muscle. A heart pump was inserted into his groin and threaded into his heart. From there, the pump began helping his heart push blood

A four-year-old boy from Watertown City, New York is developing extra skeleton because of a rare disease and will eventually become stiff for life.

Kimberley Hayes, a 4th-grade teacher at Watertown City School District's Knickerbocker Elementary School, revealed to Watertown Daily Times on Thursday that his son, Shane, has been diagnosed with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), which affects only 600 people worldwide

One of every four teenage girls took the medically prescribed vaccine for four types the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer last year, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed.

The ratio was based on the agency's 2007 phone survey of 1,500 girls aged 13 to 17, though the health officials' recommendation is for girls to start the Gardasil vaccination as early as age 11 or 12, before sexual activity starts

One in 6 San Francisco residents risk acquiring a heart problem, high blood pressure and other stress-related ailments, according to city public health officials. The culprit is the city's noise pollution emanating from its traffic.

Because of the high levels of traffic noise in parts of the city, the San Francisco Department of Public Health has identified parts of the city classified as "highly annoyed" where residents may suffer psychological and physical damage

New ways of rethinking and redefining health are emerging as various wellness groups seek fresh ways to battle obesity or maintain good health.

While fat acceptance groups in the U.S. want to change the notion that being slim is being healthy and being fat is unhealthy, a Vancouver gym has opened its doors to kids aged 8 to 12 to pump some iron