The number of HIV cases among young gay men has increased in a big way, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported Thursday. The CDC stated that from 2001 to 2006, the largest transmission category for HIV in the U.S. was in men who had sex with men.

Gay boys and men aged between 13 and 24-years old saw the biggest increase in HIV cases, about 10 times higher than in the homosexual community overall, where the number of new infections is going up about 1.5 percent a year. homosexual men were the only risk group in which the number of new infections rose annually from 2001 through 2006

Abortion rates are rising the fastest in young girls in Britain, some of them barely teenagers, official figures show.

Figures released Thursday by the Department of Health indicate that as many as 84 children underwent abortions every week in Wales and England in 2007. The figures also showed that three out of these 84 kids were below 14 years of age

Following a large number of false-positive results, New York City health officials have suspended the use of oral HIV test OraQuick in the city. Manufactured by Orasure Technologies Inc.'s, the test which rapidly screens saliva and blood samples for antibodies to both HIV-1 and HIV-2 has been halted at its 10 sexually transmitted disease (STD) walk-in clinics.

In January 2004, the clinics introduced on-site, rapid HIV testing of finger-stick, whole-blood specimens using the OraQuick test. However it was replaced by the finger-stick test with an oral fluid test, the OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV-1/2 Antibody Test in the same year in March

The dust created by the same sex marriage in California has not yet settled, another case to be decided by the state's Supreme Court may likely create another landmark in jurisprudence on doctor's rights to deny treatment based on religious grounds.

The case involves Guadalupe Benitez from Oceanside, a lesbian, who filed a lawsuit against doctors at a fertility clinic who refused to inseminate her artificially because the procedure would violate their faith which prohibits insemination on unwed females. The two physicians and the North Coast Women's Care Medical Group insisted their action was covered by their constitutional right to freedom of religion

The Home Office has launched advertisements to warn 18- to 24-year-olds about the consequences of binge drinking.

The TV ad that says "You wouldn't start a night like this, so why end it that way?" shows a young man injuring himself, being violent, urinating on his shoes and pouring a takeaway meal on his shirt just before he was about to go out