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

Women who get an adequate amount of vitamin D through daily exposure to the Sun are less likely to develop breast cancer as compared to women who do not, new studies suggests.

The "sunshine vitamin," when taken in high doses may cut the risk of breast cancer by 70%. Vitamin D is synthesized naturally in human body after the skin is exposed to the ultraviolet (UV) rays and lack of UV exposure is linked to higher risk of breast cancer

The French Cabinet is mulling making breathalyzer tests mandatory for people leaving bars and nightclubs across the country in order to prevent alcohol-related accidents.

The proposed decree came on the heels of a fatal Pentecostal holiday weekend on French roads, with at least 17 fatalities reported in seven accidents. In one, four people aged between 15 and 26 were killed when the car in which they were riding went off the road near Forbach, in eastern France

Canada has been struggling the past few years with its infant mortality rate that high-risk pregnant Canadian women are being sent to the U.S. to ensure safe deliveries and newborn survival.

In 1990 Canada was sixth ranking in low infant mortality rate, down to 25th spot in 2005, on the same ranking as Estonia with 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births

Even when pregnant, more than 52 percent of French women still drink alcohol, a new study found. The study also found that the majority of these women don't know that drinking alcohol isn't good for their baby's health.

"Our results surprised us because we didn't think that the women were so massively going to answer that they were so ignorant of the dangers of alcohol during pregnancy," Lead researcher Ingrid de Chazeron of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire told Medical News Today