U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona reports that there is no safe level of secondhand smoke exposure. Even particles of smoke can have negative effects on non-smokers.

According to NewsTarget, an estimated 126 million U.S. non-smokers are at risk with secondhand smoke at home or work. This susceptibility gives a 20 to 30 percent higher risk for heart disease and lung cancer

Call it a poor excuse if you will, but a new study out of the United Kingdom reveals that millions of men will be drinking their woes away this summer during the World Cup action in order to compensate for their poor athletic skills, or not being 'man enough to play'.

Psychologists at the University of Sussex reveal that men who are not confident with their athletic ability or lack in sporting skills, drink instead to prove their masculinity

A report by Health Ministry shows that average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime is down to 1.25 in 2005 as opposed to 1.2888 in 2004.

According to a report by Reuters, demographers say a rate of 2.1 is needed to sustain world's second-biggest economy from an aging, shrinking population

Government policies in Burma that restrict public health and humanitarian aid have enabled some of the world's deadly diseases to spread unchecked. According to a report by Johns Hopkins, AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria and bird flu (H5N1) are spreading at alarming rates.

The findings show that the spread of these infectious diseases, if left unchecked, could pose a serious health threat to other Southeast Asian nations and the world. Health professionals believe international cooperation and policies are needed to restore humanitarian assistance to the Burmese people, but warn that new government legislation imposed by the military junta are making those efforts increasingly difficult

Plagued by high unemployment and a shaky economy, Germany is seeing one of its lowest birth rates in years, taking the country to almost the bottom of the world's birth rate ranking.

German political leaders have vowed to push through new policies to encourage Germans to have more children, to stop this trend from growing