When Quebec City residents go to the polls Monday to select a replacement for Liberal MLA Roch Cholette, health care will be the focus of voters.

Six candidates are running on the byelection. Cholette's policy advisor and communications director, Maryse Gaudreault, is running under the Liberal party. Her strongest rival is Dr. Gilles Aube, from Parti Quebecois and a doctor

Teens who use marijuana to avoid depression have a 40 percent risk of developing mental disorders or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report released Friday.

The report, released to coincide with May's Mental Health Awareness Month, shows a whooping two million teens felt depressed at some point during the past year. Depressed teens are more than twice as likely as non-depressed teens to have used marijuana or other illicit drugs during that same period

Children living on streets with plenty of trees are less likely to have asthma than children who have fewer trees where they live.

That information comes from a study of children living in 42 health service districts in New York City, where asthma is the leading reason for hospital admissions of children under the age of 15

Life expectancy for women in the U.S. has dropped since the 1980s "primarily because of chronic diseases related to smoking, overweight and obesity, and high blood pressure," according to a new study.

A joint study by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington showed that nearly one in five American women saw a decline in their life expectancy beginning in the 1980s

With the worst inflation in food prices in 20 years Americans are changing the way they eat to try and keep food costs in line with their incomes.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion a family of two eating on a thrifty meal plan will spend $4,092 on food this year, which is up $252 from a year ago, while the same size family eating on a liberal food budget will spend $8,008.80 on groceries this year, an increase of $496.80