There are improvements in the physical and emotional health of Canadian youths, particularly on areas of bullying, smoking and couch-potato behavior. According to William Boyce of Queen's University, bullying incidents in 2006 among 9,500 Grade 6 to 10 students across the nation slightly dipped to 40 percent from 43 percent in 2002.

Boyce explained the slight drop to higher awareness in campuses and in Canadian society about the negative effects of physical, verbal, sexual and cyberspace bullying. But racial bullying had gone up a little bit, Boyce admitted

Help for chronic dry eye could be as easy as eye drops. A Massachusetts researcher told AHN Media he thinks he has found an effective treatment for dry eye syndrome (DES).

M. Reza Dana, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery Services at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) Cornea Service and colleagues at Schepens Eye Research Institute conducted a study using topical eye drop applications to relieve symptoms of DES

Experts have expressed both confidence and concern on the health of a fetus of a transgender man who has just revealed his pregnancy.

Dr. Charles Garramoni, a Florida plastic surgeon who changes female bodies into male bodies, said there is a slim chance that Oregonian Thomas Beatie's baby girl will suffer complications due to Beatie's 10-year testosterone therapy to develop the physical characteristics of a male

A recent study concluded that prematurely born children prove to have higher risks of infant deaths, and lower fertility rates as adults. These findings generally point to the conclusion that premature babies bear more complications later on in life than previously expected.

The researchers at Duke University gathered their findings from an experiment involving 1.16 million births in Norway between 1967 and 1988. Of this number, 5.2 percent, or 60,354, were deemed to be premature births, being born up to 37 of the 40 normal weeks after conception

Researchers have concluded that men and women typically have different tastes in food with men favoring meat and poultry while women tend to prefer fruits and vegetables.

The study is based on the behavior of 14,000 adult men and women surveyed from May 2006 to April 2007 for the Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet). The aim of the study was to determine their eating habits, including high risk foods such as undercooked meat and eggs