Earwax might be annoying, but experts say it's actually useful and warn it should be left alone unless the ear canal is so blocked that it causes earaches, infections or other problems.

In small amounts, earwax acts as a natural cleanser inside the ear canal as it moves out of the ear. In addition, tests have shown that earwax actually has helpful antibacterial and antifungal properties

A website has been helping people with sexually-transmitted diseases conveniently and anonymously notify by e-mail sexual partners whom they may have inadvertently infected.

InSpot has been used by some 30,000 people since it was launched in San Francisco in 2004 making it an innovative and effective communication channel among sex partners, according to a report published in the October issue of PLoS Medicine

Transplant tourism, or the practice of going to another country to receive an organ transplant, isn't as safe as undergoing the procedure in the United States, a researcher says.

People who travel to other countries to receive kidney transplants are more likely to reject the organ or have other severe post-transplant complications such as severe infections, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles say

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

Highly contagious whooping cough has struck several students at a Kentucky elementary school.

There have been five confirmed cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, so far this week at Freedom Elementary School in Shepherdsville. Bullitt County public health officials say that between vaccines and antibiotics that the chance of the disease becoming fatal has been lessened