A new study by University of Toronto researchers links physical abuse during childhood with higher risk of cancer during their adult years.

Battered children have a 49 percent higher chance of acquiring cancer when they become adults, said Esme Fuller-Thomson of the university's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Department of Family and Community Medicine

International efforts to combat international drug trafficking are paying off, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime executive director Antonio Maria Costa said Wednesday in a press conference.

He bared the findings to launch the 2009 World Drug Report. The report found out that 40 percent of the global cocaine supply is seized in Colombia, while less than 20 percent of opium, morphine and heroin are confiscated

Indian researchers say in a new study that there is a direct link between cigarette smoking and brain damage.

Dr. Anirban Basu and Debapriya Ghosh from the Indian National Brain Research Center, said they have found a compound in tobacco smoke that provokes whit blood cells in the central nervous system to attack healthy cells, which causes severe neurological damage

Binge drinking, alcohol-related deaths and drunk driving are all on the rise on college campuses across the country, according to government statistics.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found that drinking related deaths among 18- to 24-year-old student increased from 1,440 in 1998 to 1,825 in 2005

A two-year-old campaign to wipe out fraud in Medicare and Medicaid picked up momentum Wednesday as the Obama administration announced it would expand investigations into Detroit and Houston.

Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the formation of the Health Care Enforcement Action Team to reduce fraud, waste and abuse