A new study reveals the Asian vine kudzu could help alcoholics cut back on the amount of drinks they need to consume to feel "drunk."

The study, conducted at the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital in Boston, is published in this month's edition of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

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

Hong Kong health department officials are planning to enact laws to make sure children are provided with healthy lunch as increase in obesity among kids is posing a threat. AFP reported quoting a report published in the Sunday Morning Post th

t the law would regulate lunches offered to youngsters at school canteens. The law will be enacted by 2007. A recently conducted study showed that "the rate of obesity has gone up to almost one in five and that the mean weight of 18-year old boys had increased 16 percent in five years and for girls the figure was 11 percent,"

Thailand's health ministry warned size-obsessed men on Friday to avoid trying to enlarge their penises with liquid injections, saying it could cause deformities.

The warning is a response to media reports that male teenagers in central Thailand had rushed to have their penises injected with olive oil or other liquids

William J Brown - News Room Administrators Staff

The study was published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine and found that for those under 65, surgery cuts the death rate by more than 50%