The Environmental Protection Agency is unlikely to set higher drinking water safety benchmark for perchlorate due to pressures from the White House and Pentagon. Perchlorate is a component of rocket fuel found in tap water in at least 25 states and linked to thyroid problems in infants, young children and pregnant women.

The Washington Post cited documents from EPA's preliminary investigation, expected to end the six-year long battle between EPA scientists who are for regulation of the chemical and White House and Pentagon officials who are against regulation

The Environmental Protection Agency is unlikely to set higher drinking water safety benchmark for perchlorate due to pressures from the White House and Pentagon. Perchlorate is a component of rocket fuel found in tap water in at least 25 states and linked to thyroid problems in infants, young children and pregnant women.

The Washington Post cited documents from EPA's preliminary investigation, expected to end the six-year long battle between EPA scientists who are for regulation of the chemical and White House and Pentagon officials who are against regulation

The Ontario government announced Thursday the appointment of Dr. Shoo Lee as pediatrician-in-chief of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and head of the neonatology division of the University of Toronto.

Lee, a world-renowned neonatologist or a specialist in caring for newborns and ill or premature infants, used to be based in Alberta. His transfer, to take effect in January 2009, is the result of Canadian provinces engaged in the global war for talent

A large number of American parents are showing interest in adopting HIV positive children from Ethiopia, figures from an international adoption agency shows.

The parents who opt to adopt for HIV positive orphans say they are driven by a desire for social change and confidence that handling the deadly disease is more manageable than it was few years ago

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