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A disabled veteran said he was duped by a health center after spending thousands after they diagnosed him with a disease he doesn’t have. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019.

The Armenian family of a 19-month-old boy with a rare disease who is part of a medical trial in the United States is hoping for a miracle—they need a visa extension to stay in America, so he can finish the trial.

On Thursday, one of the siblings from “Property Brothers” posted an emotional video on Instagram detailing his year-long battle with a mysterious illness that is still undiagnosed. In a video spanning over 25 minutes, Scott, 43, and his fiancé Annalee Belle discussed the details of the health complications he has been experiencing for the past 14 months.

You’ve probably seen it and perhaps struggled to understand the craze. CBD, or cannabidiol, a cannabis extract, has made its way up to food, drinks and dietary supplements almost everywhere. The hype has significantly grown in the U.S. in the last five years. However, its legality and benefits remain in a gray area and debated in the country, where 33...

Researchers may be closing in on a way to check athletes while they’re alive for signs of a degenerative brain disease that’s been linked to frequent head blows. Experimental scans found higher levels of an abnormal protein tied to the disease in a study of former National Football League players who were having mood and thinking problems. It’s the first...

Nearly five months since revealing her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, Selma Blair is sharing her story.

The man bitten by a shark off Cape Cod this month said Tuesday he escaped by punching the powerful predator in the gills after it clamped down on his leg.

A Santa Barbara father is spending his last days traveling the country in a van to advocate for healthcare and suing his healthcare provider.

There’s little downtime for the dozen or so spellers who make it to the primetime finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Once they get through the morning finals, which can last 4 hours or more, the remaining spellers are swarmed by relatives, reporters — and Scripps representatives who hand them a color-coded schedule that maps out nearly every minute...

At the bottom of the Olympic aerials landing hill, where crashes are common and the term “slap back” is part of the everyday lingo, skiers spend almost as much time figuring out how to protect their heads as they do working on all those flips and spins. “We learn how to fall,” U.S. jumper Jon Lillis said. Elsewhere around the...

As the United States warns its citizens to stay away from Cuba, there are signs that spring breakers, adventure-seekers and retirees already are reconsidering trips to the island.

More than three years after a coroner declared a teen girl dead, a Northern California judge is deciding whether to revoke her death certificate.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says his son is doing “much better” after suffering a fractured skull Thursday.

An Oakland mother’s two-year quest to have her brain-dead daughter declared legally alive has now moved to federal court in the hopes she and Jahi McMath can move back home to be surrounded by “the love and support of their family,” according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court. The Alameda County coroner in Oakland, California signed Jahi...