Most women in Britain feed their babies through bottles and not by breastfeeding. A series of posters hopes to change that.

Best Beginnings, a charity which focuses on promoting breastfeeding, held a poster-making contest for students at the Central St. Martin's School of Art and Design

A survey conducted for a mental health provider finds that one-third of girls from 11- to 19-years-old in the United Kingdom have harmed themselves.

Depression is very common among teens, causing them to cut, burn, punch or overdose their selves with drugs

The federal government is deciding whether it will continue to fund abstinence only education in schools since the CDC released findings this year that one in four girls has a sexually transmitted disease.

Another reason some feel abstinence only programs do not work is that the U.S has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in developed countries, at about 750,000 a year

Women who are trying to conceive a boy could increase their chances by increasing their calorie intake during the days of conception, a new study has revealed.

The researchers, from Oxford and Exeter universities, found that women with the highest calorie intake before conception were more likely to have a boy than women on a low calorie diet

A synthetic vaccine for human papillomavirus that can be delivered as a nasal spray has been successfully tested on mice, researchers say. The new vaccine would be able to offer protection against different strains of HPV, the source of the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States and a cause of cervical cancer.

Richard B.S. Roden, lead researcher for the new study and an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, told Health Day news, "We have been trying to produce a single vaccine that would be able to protect patients against all cancer causing HPV types