A Yale researcher reports a community-level intervention program, aimed at young adolescents, delays early intercourse, increases condom use and reduces the type of risky sexual behavior that can result in sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

The intervention consists of AIDS education, skills training, peer influence and both family and neighborhood support to avoid and reduce high-risk behavior among adolescents. The authors say community-level interventions have proven to be successful with gay men, injection drug users and inner-city women, but this was one of the first to have targeted adolescents

New research tested in rats suggests breast milk causes more cavities in infants and toddlers than cow milk. Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center, also find that cola, sucrose and honey are the worst fluids for young teeth.

Researchers advise parents to stop feeding babies sugary liquids from bottles, or sweetening water with honey, thought to be good for dental health, or letting babies fall asleep on the nipple

The dengue virus-carrying Aedes mosquito is adapting to urbanized human environments and traditional methods used in most Asian countries to control their breeding, making it more diffcult to control.

Dr. Duane Gubler, director at the Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Diseases in Hawaii says, "It's a global pandemic. It's quite clear that the disease...has evolved. There just is more dengue in the world

New evidence suggests eating a diet rich in plant foods, such as beans and Soya, cuts the risk of lung cancer

Two Australians wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine for revolutionary research on stomach ulcers. Their research invalidates conventional understanding they are caused by bacteria and can be cured with antibiotics.

The Nobel jury says Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren "made the remarkable and unexpected discovery" in 1982 that gastritis and peptic ulcer disease are caused by the Helicobacter pylori bacterium. They had a tough time proving the theory