A group of college and university presidents and chancellors from around the United States would like to see the drinking age lowered somewhere closer to 18, the typical age of college freshmen.

More than 100 university presidents and chancellors have signed the Amethyst Initiative, a statement encouraging legislators to evaluate the effectiveness of the 21-year-old drinking age

Women who undergo severe stress during pregnancy risk giving birth to children who develop schizophrenia, a complex brain disorder, a study suggests.

Study leader Dr. Dolores Malaspina, from the New York University School of Medicine, and colleagues looked at birth data for 88,829 people born in Jerusalem from 1964 to 1976 and cross-referenced the information with Israel's national psychiatry registry

Children who are exposed to pet dogs, cats or other furry friends at home can develop problem snoring when they grow up, a new study has revealed. Heavy snoring has been linked to early death, heart disease and stroke, not to mention the obvious problems of sleep deprivation for the snorer and their partner.

Karl Franklin, the study's lead author and a physician at University Hospital here, analyzed sleep habits and other childhood hospitalizations of men and women aged 25 to 54 -- all residents of Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Estonia -- and got responses from 15,556

An Egyptian woman has given birth to septuplets. The babies, four girls and three boys, were born Aug. 16 via Caesarean section six weeks before her due date.

The mother, Ghazala Ibrahim Omar, 27, already had three daughters, but was eager for a son. However, the mother says that she might need financial support to help raise them as her husband, who is a farmer, earns $4 a day, which may not be enough to support her newly-expanded family

The future of an infant born of an Indian surrogate mother is uncertain as her biological parents, a Japanese couple, divorced after conception.

Abandoned by her Japanese and the Indian mother, the baby is now under her grandmother's care in a hospital in Jaipur, in western Rajasthan state