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A heart device that is not yet FDA approved has restored the vigor to life of a boy awaiting a heart transplant.

Parents of twins are more likely to have mental health problems than those of single-born babies, researchers said Monday, but some questioned how important the difference really was.

A baby’s smile gives a new mother a drug-like high and is equally addictive, a study of the female brain shows.

There have been more than 78,000 complaints about Gardasil, including nausea, blood clots, genital warts, paralysis and death.

Cadell Hoggan, 3, has a rare form of gelastic epilepsy, which causes strange bouts of laughter – and could one day kill him, London’s Daily Mail reported Monday.

Fourteen babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of Christus Spohn Hospital South were given overdoses of the pediatric version of the blood thinner Heparin, hospital officials said.

Drug safety officials Tuesday imposed the government’s most urgent safety warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, saying they may cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that can leave patients incapacitated and needing extensive surgery.

An autopsy Monday confirmed that 35-year-old Rodney Hawkins went into anaphylactic shock and died after eating the dish at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Lovejoy last week.

A 44-year-old man died after drinking 9.6 liters of water in eight hours, the equivalent of four-and- a-half soda bottles, London’s Daily Mail reported Tuesday.

Four Pocono Mountain-area teenagers have been diagnosed with osteosarcoma since 2006 – and their families want to know if the cancers are a result of a cluster or a coincidence, The Times Tribune reported Monday.