A new survey conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri observes a rise in alcoholism among American youth.

At least one-third of the men and one-fourth of the women covered in the survey engaged in the practice of imbibing 21 alcoholic drinks on their 21st birthday

An electronic pillbox meant to aid the elderly people in taking their medicines on time is a useful tool in old age, new research reveals. The pill box not only beeps at the appointed drug-taking time but also announces the number of pills to take and how to take them.

Manufactured by Santa Barbara, Calif.-based company Lifetechniques, the interactive pillbox was given to a group of patients between the ages of 65 and 84. All the patients were following a prescription regimen of at least four medications

Wal-Mart rolled out on Monday its 90-day special offer to American consumers that sells medicine for $10. The promo includes marked down prices for women's medication and more price cuts on over 1,000 over-the-counter pharmaceuticals.

The $10 drugs cover 350 generic medicines for 90-day prescriptions at Wal-Mart, Neighborhood Market and Sam's Club drugstores across the U.S., except in North Dakota where Wal-Mart has no in-store drugstores. The women's drugs, including treatments for breast cancer and hormone deficiency, are sold at $9. Meanwhile, prices for over 1,000 over-the-counter medication are lowered to $4 or less

Although malaria is a curable and preventable disease it still kills one million people a year, and infects 350 million. It remains the single largest killer of children in Africa with about 3,000 children dying of the disease there every day.

In The Republic of Congo, one widowed mother who earns $240 a month as a civil servant says she often spends up to $170 a month on medicine to treat her six children for malaria during the year

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a press conference Tuesday he favors the reclassification of cannabis to a class B drug instead of its present class C status. The move would reverse cannabis' downgrade by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which was seen as having encouraged its heavier use by young Britons.

Brown's policy comes ahead of a report slated to come out this month following a formal review of cannabis' classification ordered by the prime minister on June as soon as he took office