Health

The Texas A&M System is instituting a broad ban on vaping.

Sixteen students were reportedly hospitalized after they were given the wrong shot at an Indiana school on Monday. 

CVS Pharmacy has suspended the sale of all Zantac brand and CVS Heath brand ranitidine products, the company said in an announcement on Saturday. 

By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about a half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years. Patients from five states drove hundreds of miles to see him, spending up to 16 hours on the road to get prescriptions for oxycodone and other powerful painkillers.

Millennials only truly relax for seven hours-a-week, according to a new survey — and it's because they're too wrapped up in their phones.

Women who bottle up their feelings instead of expressing them may be at a higher risk of stroke and other cardiovascular problems, according to findings in a recent study.

The Houston area took a financial hit with the damage Tropical Storm Imelda caused. Now, it seems the aftermath is also wreaking havoc on people’s health.

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, and September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.

FOX 26 is teaming up with the Houston Health Department for the "I Am Life" campaign.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared a warning to hunters after a man in Michigan was found to have developed tuberculosis caused by bacteria transmitted from deer carcass.

The number of vaping-related illnesses in the U.S. could soon climb much higher, a public health official said Tuesday.

In a ruling booze drinkers will appreciate, a German court has determined that a hangover is an illness in a case against the maker of a food supplement marketed as an "anti-hangover drink."

Juul Labs CEO Kevin Burns announced Wednesday that he is stepping down, while the e-cigarette company also announced that it will stop all print, digital and broadcast advertising in the U.S., effective immediately.

A girl with spina bifida was able to go on a field trip with her classmates thanks to one kind teacher.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Just one week ago, Marcia Nelson was celebrating her son’s first college scholarship offer.