One year ago, Tim Andrews was among the world’s first recipients of a genetically modified pig kidney. Now, he is the first in that small group of pioneers to go on to receive a human kidney.

Congress failed to extend Obamacare subsidies before they recessed for the holidays, leaving some 20 million Americans having to make some tough choices about health care coverage for the new calendar ...

UPMC hospital police on Friday charged a patient after an attack against a doctor and four officers in a mental health pod in downtown Harrisburg. Officers who work for the hospital’s police ...

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Energy drinks might give you wings, unleash the beast or fuel your grind - but chugging too many might pose a serious stroke risk, doctors warn. An otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s with a ...

A man has been arrested after deputies say he abused an “elderly male patient” at HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday. Anthony Diaz, 52, has been ...

Jurors have reached a verdict in the weeks-long murder trial of Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb, who is charged in the shooting death of a pregnant woman in a grocery store parking lot.

The top authorities of U.S. cancer statistics will soon have to classify the sex of patients strictly as male, female, or unknown, a change scientists and advocates say will harm the health of ...

Before insurance plans will approve doctor-recommended medication, they often require patients to try cheaper alternatives in what is known as step therapy. NBC News’s Maggie Vespa reports on a ...