Teens who use marijuana to avoid depression have a 40 percent risk of developing mental disorders or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report released Friday.

The report, released to coincide with May's Mental Health Awareness Month, shows a whooping two million teens felt depressed at some point during the past year. Depressed teens are more than twice as likely as non-depressed teens to have used marijuana or other illicit drugs during that same period

A federal appeals court judge is pondering whether the Bush administration has the authority to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Bush administration made its request on Friday to the court that is considering overturning a ruling that allowed Creekstone Farms Premium Beef of Arkansas City, Kan., to test all its beef for mad cow disease

About one-third of children in pediatric intensive care units experience frightening delusions that stay with them for a longer time, a new study has found. Powerful hallucinations where children reported seeing various animals like cats and spiders were most common in children who had to be sedated for more than two days, and in youngsters who were admitted on an emergency basis.

According to a study in the first May issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, these delusional memories put the children at far higher risk of post traumatic stress disorder

In a near-unanimous vote, the House passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) in a 414-1 vote.

GINA, which would prevent employers from discriminating against persons who have a genetic predisposition towards sickness and disease, has already passed the Senate and is expected to be signed into law by President Bush

The U.S. Defense Department has amended its regulations for obtaining and maintaining security clearance levels in an effort to end the stigma attached to mental health care.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced former and current military and civilian personnel who received mental health counseling while on active duty no longer have to acknowledge that fact when they fill out security clearance forms. The only exception to this rule is if the treatment was court ordered or if the problem involved violence