"American Idol" judge Paula Abdul is the driving force behind a bill the proposes nail salons take better measures to ensure customer health.

Abdul, 43, testified at a California Legislative meeting about her own yearlong health ordeal caused by an unsanitary manicure to convince California legislatures that nail salons need to follow regulated health standards

Public elementary and middle schools would be prohibited from selling soda and junk food under a package of measures approved Monday by a state Senate panel action against a growing epidemic of childhood obesity.

The bills aim to restrict the amount of sugar, fat and salt children consume, at least during the school day

Medicare covers 43 million elderly and disabled Americans.

The White House projects the total cost of covering prescription drugs over the next decade at $724 billion, of which $2 billion will be used for impotency drugs

Congress is considering a bill to prohibit the sale of flavored cigarettes, along with New York, Minnesota, West Virginia, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina and Texas.

The new trend of flavored cigarettes have appealing names - Winter Warm Toffee, Twista Chill and Kauai Kolada - and are advertised on the pages of glossy magazines such as Rolling Stone, Glamour and Elle

Lawmakers in Germany making efforts to ban smoking while driving as a safety precaution.

According to Peter Danckert of the ruling Social Democrats, "The dangers of causing an accident rise drastically when you smoke and drive, I want a complete ban on smoking for drivers