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The 35-year-old patient hadn’t showed any awareness in 15 years, but responded after researchers electrically stimulated the vagus nerve.

A spokesperson said the GOP senator from Kentucky opposes the bill, the latest blow to Republican hopes of passing it.

Thirty-one staff members at the Whiting Forensic Division hospital in Middletown have been suspended, and nine have been arrested.

Glenn Chin is to go on trial Tuesday for his role in the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds of others.

Taking hormone pills for several years after menopause didn’t shorten older women’s life spans, according to the longest follow-up yet of landmark research.

Millions of women may soon have to decide between a routine Pap or a newer test that detects if they have a cancer-causing virus.

The proposal, which Sanders plans to unveil Wednesday, is thrilling the progressive base, but Democratic leaders are stopping short of embracing it.

The old Gold Rush town of Nome on Alaska’s western coast is trying again to address hard drinking that’s deeply entrenched there.

Miami’s estimated 1,100 homeless people have a stark choice: Come willingly to a storm shelter, or be held against their will for a mental health evaluation.

Scenic areas like the Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, Washington’s Mount Rainier, and California’s Yosemite National Park are all being threatened by fire.

Infections have killed 15 people and hospitalized nearly 400 more, with the homeless population hit hardest.

German official determined that Niels Hoegel might have killed another 84 patients, if not more, a prosecutor said.

The male nurse was convicted of killing two patients in Germany with overdoses of heart medication.

The Health Department has cited a Pennsylvania hospital in the death of a 6-year-old boy whose temperature topped 107 degrees (41.7 Celsius) while he was under a special heating blanket.

The Masai giraffe, named Beau, leaves behind six offspring — including 1-year-old Amari, who still lives at the Boston zoo.

France wants to involve psychiatrists in preventing attacks like the one in which a mentally unstable man drove into two Marseille bus stops, killing a woman, the country’s interior minister said Tuesday.

A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million to a woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in its iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene.

One-time Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino, whose published insults of former President Barack Obama provoked a public uproar, was removed from Buffalo’s school board Thursday for improperly discussing teacher contract negotiations.

After years of decline, teen deaths from drug overdoses have inched up, a new U.S. government report shows.

Senator Lindsey Graham said that if Republicans can’t deliver, ‘‘We’re all going to be in trouble, including the president.’’

The cause of the staff members’ sickness at the New Hampshire hospital remained a mystery Friday afternoon.

The goal is to deprive the GOP of its congressional majority in next year’s midterm elections.

Nepal’s parliament has passed a bill toward making women safer by strengthening laws against acid attacks along with the ancient Hindu customs of demanding dowry payments for marriage and exiling women who are menstruating.

Pope Francis has ordered a Belgian Catholic charity to stop offering euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals.

A string of bizarre incidents left a group of American diplomats in Havana with severe hearing loss attributed to a covert sonic device.

A woman has been accused of pretending to be a doctor and falsely claiming her preschool-age son had terminal cancer so he could receive unnecessary hospital care and opioids.

Ron Johnson said that John McCain has ‘‘a brain tumor right now. That vote occurred at 1:30 in the morning. Some of that might have factored in.’’

The policy would also have allowed students to drop out of group work if they became too stressed, and allowed for all exams to be open book.

An increasing number of people have been sickened by eating papaya now traced to a farm located in southern Mexico.

President Donald Trump took on the opioid drug epidemic Tuesday, saying, “Nobody is safe from this epidemic.’’

The center where users inject themselves has been quietly operating in the United States for the past three years.

President Trump’s drug commission called for him to declare a national emergency to deal with the opioid epidemic.

More than 93 percent of patients have their arteries opened within 90 minutes of arrival.

For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren’t so addictive.

A family spokesperson said the critically ill British baby at the center of a legal battle that attracted the attention of Pope Francis and President Trump has died.

Hundreds of people in Michigan came together to say a tear-filled final goodbye to a cancer-stricken dog who served three tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marines.

The court the child’s parents and the hospital that has been treating him until noon Thursday to come to terms on an end-of-life care plan for the infant’s final hours or days.

They would like “a few days of tranquility” at home with the 11-month-old before he passes away.

more evidence that early treatment can occasionally cause a long remission that, if it lasts, would be a form of cure.

Their lawyer says Chris Gard and Connie Yates are withdrawing their appeal to court orders saying Charlie’s treatment should end.

Dennis Meehan, the owner of Summit Medical Marijuana, offered residents who collected trash in Gardiner Saturday some free flower.

The retired doctor, Vejay Ramlakan, said the Mandela family had requested that the book be written.

Activists gathered outside the London court where legal proceedings will resume Monday with new medical evidence expected.

There were five reports of people being bitten by an unusually aggressive squirrel in Prospect Park in a span of a few days last week.

AIDS deaths are also now close to half of what they were in 2005.

One American was able to afford her toddler’s latest heart operation. Another had the means to go back to college to pursue her dreams.

Prosecutors in Florida believe a 10-year-old boy who died with the painkiller fentanyl in his system is among the state’s youngest victims of the opioid crisis.

Noel Conway argues that Britain’s ban on assisted suicide is incompatible with protections of human rights

There’s another possible delay to the Senate’s consideration of a GOP bill to repeal and replace the Obama-era health care law.

Senator John Cornyn said he expects a vote on the GOP health bill once John McCain returns following surgery.