The European Commission has said that many claims made on sunscreen bottles were untrue, and that the system of "sun protection factors" was widely misunderstood and misleading, as the recent study shows that the skin could actually be more exposed to skin cancer.

Sun care products will have to be reformulated and their bottles relabeled under E.U. reforms designed to stop sunbathers being duped into believing that they have more protection than they actually do

Russia has jumped on the bandwagon of several other nations in banning poultry products from Britain.

The Times of London reports, the island nation of Japan had previously banned poultry, eggs and even breeding birds from Britain. While Hong Kong has banned exports from Norfolk, which is the epicenter of a bird flu alert

The bill, which bans Connecticut's public schools from selling soda and other sugary beverages, has won final legislative approval.

The new law will prohibit schools from selling regular and diet soda as well as electrolyte replacement drinks such as Gatorade

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it does not support the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

The FDA said in a statement that it and other agencies with the Health and Human Services Department had "concluded that no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use

It's possible that you may soon be able to get pleasantly tipsy without having to fear that by the end of the night you'll have stumbled into a coffee table or two, lost all sense of inhibition, and knelt before a toilet bowl.

Drugs called partial agonists, or PAs, are capable of mimicking the pleasurable effects of alcohol while avoiding the negative ones, according to David Nutt, a professor of pharmacology at Bristol University in the UK