The Food and Drug Administration is considering the use of leeches and maggots in more medical procedures.

Lisa Darmo, of Carolina Biological Supply in Burlington, says special leeches for medical use only are imported from England and shipped to hospitals across the country

A woman is home after giving birth to triplets and then undergoing emergency heart surgery.

Doctors performed an emergency caesarean operation after the woman came to the hospital August 19 with head and neck pain

A woman is home today after giving birth to triplets and then undergoing emergency heart surgery

Researchers at the University of California find that by giving a heart attack patient a statin drug right away, the risk of dying is reduced by 50-percent.

Statin drugs are used to lower cholesterol levels and prevent strokes and heart attacks long-term, but the new study suggests the drugs might join aspirin as something to give to patients immediately when they suffer a heart attack

The ongoing encephalitis crisis in northern India has now killed 253 people, with officials saying the disease shows little sign of abating.

Officials report 41 new deaths over the weekend, raising the three-week death toll to 253