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

Overwhelming evidence indicated that skipping breakfast is directly linked with fat gain. The results come from a five-year study called "Project Eating Among Students" or EAT, designed to examine the eating and exercise habits of 15-year-old adolescents at the time of the survey.

About 1,007 boys and 1,215 girls of different races and economic standings from public schools in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, agreed to undergo the study

Infants born prematurely have higher death rates in childhood and, if they survive, much less likely to have children of their own in adulthood, according to the largest study of prematurity ever undertaken.

The study, conducted using Norwegian birth data, raises questions about future risks for even tinier babies saved today by modern medicine. Previous studies have shown that premature infants faced many neurological and developmental problems, but the new findings to be reported Wednesday indicate that the problems persist throughout the child's lifetime

More than 100 million Europeans still lack access to safe drinking water, resulting in the deaths from diarrhea of nearly 40 children every day, the United Nations said on Friday, mentioning that many people across the region do not enjoy the basic human right to healthy water.

More than 170,000 cases of water-related diseases - including over 120,000 cases of viral hepatitis A - were reported in 2006