A step toward a new possible treatment for leukemia, one that uses patients’ own immune cells to target and destroy cancer is getting a lot of media attention.   

A brutal mauling by a friend’s pet chimpanzee left Charla Nash without a nose, eyelids, lips or hands. Police initially couldn’t determine her gender. Doctors weren’t sure if she would survive.   

As the Horn of Africa struggles to deal with its worst drought in more than half a century, rising food prices are adding to growing hunger in Kenya.   

A San Francisco man and his Australian husband will be forced apart when the Australian is deported this month after the federal government denied his request to be a permanent resident. …   

As he puts a straw in his fruit smoothie, Michael Lee Howard accidentally knocks over the cup, spilling the seaweed-colored liquid. “Well, it happens,” he says. As he collects the smoothie overflow in the plastic lid, he exposes the tattoos on his … …

Right now, this may be the most desperate place on Earth.   

Unwelcome in our parks, banned from apartment blocks and with owners who spend too much time in the office, living in Hong Kong can be a dog’s life for man’s best friend.  

Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain is planning to start selling health insurance to customers this fall.   

Memory loss is the symptom everybody worried about Alzheimer’s disease, yet there are other common symptoms of Alzheimer’s or dementia that can turn up even earlier.

Diana Nyad’s personal test has begun. At 7:45 p.m. ET she jumped into the water and began her 103-mile swim between Cuba and Florida. …