As pregnancies increase among British women and female migrants, midwives are suffering the brunt of higher birth rates in the country. The number of expectant mothers midwives have been caring for grew on the average by 6.5 percent over the past six years.

But in some areas, like the East Midlands, the figure is at an alarming 25 percent hike for the same period. The growing gap between birthing women and midwives indicates the inability of the government to fulfill its promise that by 2009 every woman in the U.K. must have one midwife throughout her pregnancy. And that every pregnant woman should be given the choice to deliver at home or in the hospital

Newly homeless youth are likelier to engage in risky sexual behavior if they stay in nonfamily settings because they lack supervision and social support, a new study shows.

Researchers defined homeless youth as those who have been away from home for a period between one day and six months. Homeless settings include friends' homes, abandoned buildings or the streets

Researchers at Cambridge University have concluded that four lifestyle changes can add at least 14 years to the life of a person. They identified the amendments as stopping smoking, regularly exercising, drinking moderately and having five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

Their basis was a study on the health of 20,000 males and females from Norfolk between the ages 45 to 79. The study was conducted from 1993 to 2006

Hispanic women have higher risk of breast cancer as compared to Asian-American or blacks counterparts, U.S. researchers found.

A report published in the Journal of American Medical Association found that many Hispanic women "carry a gene mutation that gave many Jewish women a high risk of breast cancer"

Latest findings of researchers at the University of Bristol in England indicated that the length of a woman's legs suggest influences on her liver development - the shorter the legs of a female, the more she is at risk of liver damage.

In a report published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the team of researchers including Abegail Fraser, said the study was conducted among 3,600 women with ages ranging from 60 to 79