A federal bill permitting the filing of homicide charges on the attacker of a pregnant woman who causes the death of her fetus is dividing Canadians.

House Bill C-484 has become a debate between pro-life groups and pro-choice groups. Advocates from both side aired their sentiments Thursday through demonstrations in front of the Nova Scotia legislature

Nordic countries dominate the top while countries in sub-Saharan Africa dominate the bottom levels of the best and worst places to be a mother and a child.

The Mother's Index of US-based global humanitarian organization Save the Children highlighted in the organization's State of the World's Mothers 2008 report compares the well-being of mothers and children in 146 countries

Children living on streets with plenty of trees are less likely to have asthma than children who have fewer trees where they live.

That information comes from a study of children living in 42 health service districts in New York City, where asthma is the leading reason for hospital admissions of children under the age of 15

A recent study concluded that there was evidence to consider that smoke bans increase the number of drunk driving incidences.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of South Carolina, drew their findings from investigating recorded highway car accident deaths from 2001 to 2005 that were caused by drivers with blood alcohol over 0.08. The collected data was then compared in relation to cities where smoking bans had been enacted

Asia faces growing challenges from rising temperatures and increased rainfall that threaten to increase poverty, hunger and disease according to the World Health Organization's World Health Day report.

Although the threats from the effects of global warming are worldwide, people living in developing nations are more vulnerable because they have fewer resources to deal with the changes, officials say