Three students at an eastern Pennsylvania high school are diagnosed with an outbreak of MRSA, a staph infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

It is still not clear where the students from Northampton Area High School picked up the infection, Superintendent Linda Firestone told media adding that she has sent a letter to parents Wednesday urging good hygiene practices to prevent spreading the infection

- A new study has found that children who start drinking alcoholic beverages early in life are more likely to continue drinking through their adulthood.

The Times of London reported that the study shows that children and teens who drink alcohol, even in small doses at dinner time, as is done in some European families, tend to be fonder of drinking as adults, and the idea that allowing kids to drink will make them more responsible drinkers is not the reality. According to the study, it is just more likely to make them drinkers for life

Some caffeinated energy drinks that have up to 14 times the caffeine of a regular can of soda should carry labels that specify their amount of caffeine, says a Johns Hopkins University scientist.

According to Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, many of these drinks do not label the caffeine content which has potential health dangers

Toronto Transit Commission officials will announce Friday a new job requirement for employees of the transport company under its fitness for duty policy. All TTC workers will be made to take and pass drug and alcohol tests.

The new policy, reported by the Globe and Mail, was an offshoot of an investigation that a maintenance crew died on the job in 2007 while high on marijuana and after a bus operator was recently fired for drunk driving

Mothers who drink a few glasses of wine over a short period in early pregnancy may have caused fetal problems to their unborn child, a new study says.

Erhard Bieberich, a biochemist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies compared cell death in mice following different levels of alcohol consumption