Public hospitals in New Zealand's capital and coast have revived a program that offers cash vouchers to mothers who immediately go home after giving birth. The measure will be implemented in December and January because of a shortage of midwives. The Capital and Coast District Health Board will give $100 supermarket vouchers to mothers who don't stay at the post-natal ward after delivering their babies. The board runs public hospitals in Wellington, Porirua and the Kapiti Coast.

The cash voucher will not be offered to mothers who give birth for the first time or via caesarean section and those who have complicated delivery or are not clinically ready for discharge. New Zealand Health Minister David Cunliffe said that the board assured him "no woman who needed to be in the hospital after giving birth would be sent home

A new study on alcoholism using fruit flies could be more fun from the fly's perspective.

Unknown numbers of science and medical students have used and abused the lowly fruit fly for any number of experiments and studies that couldn't have been much fun for the flies

The Hong Kong Center for Food Safety (HKCFS) has warned consumers against drinking a batch of French red wine made in 2006 because these may contain glass fragments.

The HKCFS also appealed to local liquor vendors to stop selling J.P. Chenet Cabernet/Syrah du Pays d'Oc red wine carrying lot number L70927203 and EAN (European Article Number) bar code number 3263286324216

More than three alcohol drinks a day increases the risk of breast cancer in women by 30 percent, a study has found. The risk is same in case of every alcoholic drink, be it wine, beer or liquor.

Researcher Yan Li of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, in Oakland, Calif., told WebMD, "It doesn't matter if you drink red wine or white wine. If you are a heavy drinker -- more than three drinks a day -- you will have an additional 30% risk of breast cancer

A new proposal may require alcohol makers to include the nutritional information for the beverages on the label.

If the ruling gets approves, all alcohol labels would list the percentage of calories, fat, protein and carbohydrates in addition to the percent of alcohol by volume. The labels would also include a "serving facts" panel