Nine Patriots players were absent or limited in practice due to illness Wednesday.

Hanley Ramirez and Mookie Betts are out of the Boston lineup Friday because of a flu bug that has hit the Red Sox hard in this first week of the season.

In September, Amer Fakhoury closed his New Hampshire restaurant to take his first vacation in years to visit family in his native Lebanon — a country he hadn’t been to for nearly two decades. He hasn’t returned to the United States. Soon after his arrival in Lebanon, the 57-year-old American citizen was detained by authorities and remains jailed there. Doctors...

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys after he was limited in practice Friday due to a right elbow injury. Brady, who has dealt with other injuries this season, is one of several Patriots listed on the injured report ahead of Sunday’s game.

Doctors at a Detroit hospital have performed a double lung transplant on a man whose lungs were damaged from vaping. No other details of the transplant were released Monday by Henry Ford Health System, which has scheduled a news conference Tuesday. The patient has asked his medical team to share photographs and an update to warn others about vaping.

U.S. health officials announced a breakthrough Friday into the cause of a mysterious outbreak of vaping illnesses, reporting they have a “very strong culprit.” The same chemical compound was found in fluid taken from the lungs of 29 patients across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The compound — vitamin E acetate — was previously found...

The CDC reported that the number of vaping-related injuries grew by 8% over the last week, reaching 2,051 confirmed cases across the U.S.

The 2017 death of Olivia Gant, a 7-year-old whose “bucket list” of final wishes evoked heart-touching news stories, wasn’t the result of multiple diseases – it was a murder carried out by her mother, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday.

A Colorado mother who sought donations to cover medical treatments for her daughter and promoted the girl’s “bucket list” of dreams to fulfill before she died has been indicted on a murder charge in the 7-year-old’s death that was previously believed to be from a terminal disease. In a grand jury indictment revealed Monday, Kelly Renee Turner, 41, also known...

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. said it was voluntarily recalling a single lot of its Johnson’s Baby Powder in response to a federal test indicating the presence of “sub-trace” levels of asbestos, the company said in a statement Friday.

A Democratic presidential race that had been largely static through the summer has tumbled into a chaotic fall, shaped by unpredictable events and the deepening impeachment crisis surrounding President Donald Trump. Less than four months before voting begins, front-running candidates are facing urgent questions about their ability to challenge Trump, prompted by a health scare for Sen. Bernie Sanders, an...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported the state’s first death from a vaping-associated lung injury to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday. The deceased, a woman in her 60s from Hampshire County, was among the 121 suspected cases that have been reported to DPH since Sept. 11, when Massachusetts began mandating that clinicians immediately report...

A national industry group has asked a federal judge to immediately end Massachusetts’ four-month ban on the sale of all vaping products. The lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Vapor Technology Association says unless it is ended, the ban announced by Gov. Charlie Baker on Sept. 24 will destroy the state’s $331 million nicotine vapor products industry and cause “irreparable harm”...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Monday that it has reported 5 new cases of vaping-related lung injury to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bringing the statewide total to 10. Five of the cases have been confirmed, and five are considered probable for meeting the CDC’s definition of vaping-associated pulmonary injury. To date, 83 suspected vaping-related...

A central California resident has died from complications related to the use of e-cigarettes, the seventh person to die of a vaping-related illness. The Tulare County Public Health Office confirmed the death Monday in a Facebook post, hours after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to spend $20 million on raising awareness about the dangers of vaping nicotine and...

A Central Texas girl died after her family says she contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a river over Labor Day weekend.

Jennifer Perez was only 9 years old when she was first diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer. She beat it twice. Then, days ago, she learned that it had returned for the third time in as many years. But Perez, now 12, had a chance to smile on Sunday afternoon and forget about the illness that took...

A Virginia-based veterinary blood bank is battling a shortage.

New York’s governor says state health officials are preparing to urge people to stop vaping.