Artificially-caffeinated drinks such as sodas and energy drinks may soon receive health warning labels, a possible result of the state advisory board's recommendation of a close study of the drinks' effects on people's health.

According to reports, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced on Monday that it is considering placing warning labels on the mentioned drinks should the study find that caffeine is actually a harmful substance

About 100 experts from Central Asia will meet in Kazakhstan next week to ponder the region's persistent problem of malnutrition.

"Huge gains have been made in recent years in combating the problem, but many challenges remain, especially in getting governments to mandate that flour should be fortified with iron supplements," said Rie Hiraoka, a senior social specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

monetary reward for child births, better contraception use and improved sex education are behind the fall of teenage abortions in Australia.

Victoria state recorded 1,724 teenage abortions in 2005-06, down from 1,835 the year before and 1,845 reported in 2003-04. Teenage births increased in Victoria from 1,816 in 2003 to 1,931 last year

In response to a startling rise in sexual activity among middle school students, education officials in Portland have decided to begin distributing birth control pills at a middle school health center to girls as young as 11.

King Middle School, which already provides its students with condoms, intends to become the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available, including birth control pills and patches

new study published in the Lancet shows that one in five pregnancies ends in abortion worldwide, compared to one in three pregnancies in Europe.

Based on statistics from 1995 and 2003, the joint study by the Guttmacher Institute and World Health Organization found that on average, nearly 90 percent of women worldwide will have an abortion before the age of 45. However, this statistic represents the average of all women, meaning that it accounts for those who have had multiple abortions and those who have had none at all