The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has started a safety review of several drugs known as tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, blockers for a possible association with development of lymphoma and other cancers in children and young adults.

The agency said the drugs, Enbrel, Humira and Remicade, are widely prescribed to treat autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease

Low-birth weight children and children born prematurely are at a greater risk of developing autism than their healthier counterparts, new research shows.

The risk was especially pronounced among low birth-weight girls, said the authors of the study, which was published in the June issue of Pediatrics. Baby girls weighing less than 2.5 kilograms, or about 5.5 pounds, had 3.5 times increased risk of autism. Baby girls born more than seven weeks early had a 5.4 times increased risk

A new report from the U.S. Defense Department found that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among American servicemembers deployed to combat zones jumped 50% in 2007. Leading the rise in mental health issues were Army soldiers and Marines.

According to the figure, more than 10,000 new cases of PTSD were reported in 2007 by the Army while the Marine Corps reported more than 2,100 new cases

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

Adjusting meal times can help people beat jet lag on long haul flights, scientists say. Since our brain knows how to keep track of meal-times just as it does of daytime, the time at which one has the meals has a much bigger effect on the body clock than previously thought.

Researchers from Harvard University believe that avoiding food on long haul flights, then eating on arrival, could cut the time it takes to adjust to a new time zone. When our body is not given food, the "feeding clock" of our body overrides the light-based "time clock" keeping the person wake until they find food