A study released by the Guttmacher Institute said almost half of pregnancies across the U.S. are accidents.

Although birth control devices and information are widely available, almost 50 percent of America's annual 6 million pregnancies are unintended

New York men were warned Friday not to take a popular illegal aphrodisiac called "stone," made of toad venom, after it apparently killed a man.

New York City Poison Control Center officials issued an alert warning men not to take the substance after a 35-year-old man apparently died from ingesting it last week

The first phase of a safety improvement program and campaign to promote a culture of respect is set to be implemented across Toronto by fall.

For its initial salvo, the city allocated $4 million to fund the purchase of high-tech and larger volume of security cameras, more police presence in schools and programs that would improve dealing with sexual assault cases

MP Pierre Poilievre of Nepean-Carleton threatened on Monday to block Ontario's funding of sex change surgeries under the province's health insurance system.

"People are waiting too long for basic cancer treatment and MRIs and the Liberal government found money for the (Dalton) McGuinty sex change program instead," Polievere told the Ottawa Sun

Ontario will resume shouldering the sex change surgery of residents after it was ordered by the province's Human Rights Commission to compensate three men whose sex change process were halted in the middle.

Since 1971, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan covered sex reassignment procedures, but in 1998 the Progressive Conservative government excluded sex change surgeries from medical procedures to be funded by the OHIP