The first-ever 'Appalachian Save a Life Day' comes Thursday as Narcan can be purchased over the counter for nonprescription use.

Firefighters around the country are concerned that gear laced with PFAS, a group of toxic industrial compounds, could be one reason for cancer among their ranks.

While the dramatic experiment ended this week, it's raising hope for eventually testing pig kidneys in living patients.

Two decades ago, the U.S. government created what's described as the largest commitment by any nation in history to combat a single disease, AIDS.

Republicans are responding to a late summer spike in COVID-19 by raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are on the horizon.

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and officials are raising concerns about an increase in the number of suicides in the last year.

U.S. regulators have approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, shots aimed at revving up protection this fall and winter.

President Joe Biden says for many Americans the cost of one drug can be 'the difference between life and death' as his administration announces the first drugs that'll be targeted for price negotiations in an effort to cut Medicare costs.

A national poll released this week explored the reasons why 45-year-olds aren't getting screened for colorectal cancer despite national guidelines recommending that screening begin at this age.

The Hospice of the Piedmont and the Alzheimer's Association came together for the 'Understanding and Responding to Dementia-Related Behavior' presentation on Thursday.

Scientists are launching a clinical trial to test low-intensity focused ultrasound to see if it can reprogram a part of the brain and reduce the desire for cocaine.

New York surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month, it's worked normally.

Some private insurers are balking at paying for the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer's patients.

About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever. That's according to new government data posted Thursday.

Heart attack deaths spiked early in the pandemic. Then research showed that for up to a year after a bout of COVID-19, some people can develop problems ranging from blood clots to irregular heartbeats to a heart attack.

Hospitals and clinics in several states on Friday began the time-consuming process of recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted their computer systems, forcing some emergency rooms to shut down and ambulances to be diverted.

More than 2 billion people felt added warmth from climate change every single day of the month.

Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital and Sentara RMH Medical Center are teaming up with the Greene Care Clinic and the Greene County government for the effort.

The studies are small but each will tackle multiple possible therapies for things like brain fog, sleep disturbances and the theory that lingering virus may be at least partly to blame.

Conservationists worry a new approach doesn't go far enough in protecting horseshoe crabs that are a food for a declining bird species.

It’s almost that time of year where students will start preparing to go back to class, but doctors are saying they should prepare their immune systems as well.

This weekend, the heat index will reach as high as 106 degrees. The Albemarle County Department of Fire Rescue expects to see multiple heat-related emergencies over the next few days.

President Joe Biden says the first cancer-focused initiative under his advanced health research agency is a 'major milestone in the fight to end cancer as we know it.'

With heat waves spreading across the United States, President Joe Biden has announced new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible.

Keeping firefighters hydrated is how they continue to keep the community safe.