Two-year-old Miah Stewart is living proof of the benefits of research into fixing heart defects in children.

Sixteen people who smoked synthetic marijuana were hospitalized with kidney problems last year in six states, including Kansas. All recovered but five of them needed dialysis.

New research suggests mice may not provide the most accurate information when it comes to studying certain dangerous ailments in humans such as burns, trauma, and the deadly bacterial infection, sepsis.

A Norwegian study suggests that women who take folic acid supplements may be less likely to have a child with the developmental disorder autism.

A salt reduction campaign takes aim at foods ranging from hot dogs to soup to popcorn.

In 1999, there were about 4,000 opiate-related overdose deaths in the U.S. That figure more than quadrupled to 16,500 deaths in 2010.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment released a study showing Medicaid costs would increase $1.1 billion over the next 10 years if the state expands the program as allowed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

New immunization guidelines released in January direct moms-to-be to get a dose of the vaccine after 20 weeks of pregnancy and before they deliver. Plus, the recommendation is to get the vaccine during each pregnancy.

A new study shows that African-American children who have high levels of an environmental contaminant called phthalates are more likely to be obese.

Edith Rodriguez and Pablo Ocegueda, students in South El Monte High School in South El Monte, Calif., were playing tug-of-war during a lunchtime spirit week activity when their fingers were severed by the rope.

Results are out on the first long-term scientific evidence on how the problem of bullying changes over time for gay teens.

A new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine on Feb. 4 showed that men who watched more than 20 hours a week of TV had almost half the sperm count of men who didn't watch TV at all.

A new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found middle-aged adults who were in shape were significantly less likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease by the time they reached 65 compared to their unfit counterparts.

It is a day of celebration for one topeka girl and her family after a successful double lung transplant.

Some products being recalled because child caps failed to function properly. Consumers should stop using the recalled products, U.S. consumer agency says, and little of the recalled products likely remain in stores or in homes.

Stormont-Vail and KU Medical Center have teamed up for a study on whether helping patients quit smoking.

A new study, however, says some long-held recommendations for winning the battle of the bulge are nothing more than myths.

New research suggests "triggers" may not cause migraine headaches after all.

The Food and Drug Administration's panel of drug safety specialists voted to subject hydrocodone drugs to the same restrictions as narcotics like oxycodone and morphine.

More than 140 outbreaks in the U.S. have been caused by the new "GII 4 Sydney" strain of norovirus since September.

Health organizations want to ensure patients suffering a heart attack get the quickest response possible at smaller, rural hospitals.

The four family members, who served as the New England Compounding Center's directors, received more than $16 million in wages and payments while in the midst of controversy over a meningitis outbreak.

About 30 states have reduced mental health spending since 2008, when revenues were in steep decline, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. In Kansas, funding has gone down 12 percent.

A wrongful death lawsuit, filed Wednesday in California Superior Court in San Diego, over Junior Seau's death blames the NFL for its "acts or omissions" that hid the dangers of repetitive blows to the head.

Lung cancer risk leveled off in the 1980s for men but is still rising for women, according to a new study.