Bleeding like a period after a positive pregnancy test can occur due to various medical reasons. Proper tests help distinguish normal changes from serious complications needing urgent care.

Home-made pregnancy tests often spark curiosity, especially when you hear that common household items might reveal early ...

A pregnancy test works by detecting a hormone called hCG in your urine. Over time, the chemicals in the test can lose their ...

New findings suggest blood tests still being assessed are showing promising results for early cancer screenings, especially ...

Vaccinating babies for hepatitis B at birth remains one of the clearest, most evidence-based ways to keep American children ...

A pregnant woman was advised that she didn’t need to do further testing for Down syndrome, but the baby girl was born with the disability and multiple othe ...

Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have contracted the virus and an additional 44.1 million have died from related causes ...

The Los Angeles Police Department used 2,431 less-lethal projectile rounds and 35 canisters of tear gas from June 6 through ...

In the wake of widespread abortion bans, US prosecutors launch hundreds of cases charging people with crimes related to their ...

The decision undoes a highly effective 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B ...

A reshaped vaccine committee voted to scale back newborn hepatitis B shots despite decades of data showing the birth dose is safe, effective and vital.

The change in recommendation undoes a longstanding prevention strategy that nearly eliminated pediatric cases of the virus.