The European Union (EU) has passed new legislation, aimed at providing consistency and accountability to food labeling practices.

New laws will regulate food and drink manufacturers, clearly defining what is "low fat", "high energy" or "low alcohol," and what is not

A growing number of states have recently begun passing laws to protect the rights of women who breastfeed their infants.

Mississippi, which has the lowest rate of breastfeeding in the country, has recently passed new legislation allowing mothers to nurse their infants at work and in public

British mothers are demanding that they be allowed to breastfeed babies in public. Mother who breast-feed have been asked to move from restaurants, cafes, schools and high streets.

In a survey by the National Childbirth Trust (NCT), it was found that of 1,394 mothers 85 percent breastfed their babies, but over 50 percent were embarrassed while doing it in public

A Royal College of Physicians poll of 5,000 leading doctors found 73 percent are opposed to a change in legislation which would allow patients the right to die.

The House of Lords will debate the assisted-dying Bill on Thursday, which would make it legal to doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to the terminally ill

Under provisions of the law advanced by a 96-2 vote in Senate Tuesday, employers could get a cheaper alternative to health insurance for their workers.

The legislation would allow businesses to offer insurance at a lower cost and Republicans and business groups say the ranks of the uninsured would be reduced