A large number of American parents are showing interest in adopting HIV positive children from Ethiopia, figures from an international adoption agency shows.

The parents who opt to adopt for HIV positive orphans say they are driven by a desire for social change and confidence that handling the deadly disease is more manageable than it was few years ago

- Health officials in Oklahoma are investigation the cause of a lethal E. coli outbreak that has left one man dead and many others seriously ill.

One hundred and sixteen people are reported to have contracted the severe form of E. coli. More than 50 were hospitalized, and nine people, including six children, have had to undergo dialysis

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

Researchers have identified a gene responsible for regulating hunger that may eventually lead to new targets for obesity drugs. The new study finds that people low on the brain chemical brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) may be more prone to becoming obese.

Excessive weight gain is elicited by alterations in energy balance, the finely modulated equilibrium between caloric intake and expenditure. But not all lifestyle factors count, as genetics factors also play a role

Life expectancy was linked to the social environment where an individual is born, live, grow, work and age, according to a report released Thursday by the World Health Organization.

"The toxic combination of bad policies, economics and politics is in large measure responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible," the WHO commissioners wrote in "Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health