Children are the worst affected by the Israeli attacks on Palestine, with 60 percent of them being anemic.

These facts were revealed during the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the main decision-making body of the World Health Organizations. Arab health ministers have sent an urgent letter to the WHO requesting that a fact-finding team investigate the appalling health conditions in the occupied territories

The worsening alcoholism problem across the United Kingdom is reflected in the number of alcohol-related hospital admissions, which have doubled in 12 years.

According to the National Health Service, more than 200,000 drunk patients have been admitted to hospitals in just over a decade. This figure was made more alarming by the inclusion of 8,500 minors who were too drunk, were injured while in a drunken state, or acquired secondary ailments triggered by excessive alcohol intake

Two pathologists in Vancouver and Saskatoon are offering a Web-based laboratory test that would provide a second medical opinion for only $600.

The system is in response to recent discoveries of wrong test results on Canadian women at labs in Newfoundland and Labrador which failed to detect for several years errors of a breast cancer test

A new survey conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri observes a rise in alcoholism among American youth.

At least one-third of the men and one-fourth of the women covered in the survey engaged in the practice of imbibing 21 alcoholic drinks on their 21st birthday

Pesticides were once touted as a tool of the agricultural green revolution designed to help increase crop yields but now are being blamed for causing cancer, reducing the nutritional value of some food crops and failing to boost crop yields.

Researchers have found that pesticides used on crops has damaged the DNA of farmers in India, making them more susceptible to cancer