It its first global study of the issue, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports on Thursday that one in six women worldwide is a victim of domestic violence.

The WHO says many of those battered do not report the crime, with some of them being victimized while pregnant, reports Reuters

A lawyer for the man known as Doctor Death is asking the governor of Michigan to pardon the 77-year-old former doctor. For the third straight year, an attorney for Jack Kevorkian is asking Governor Jennifer Granholm and the state's parole board to either grant the assisted-suicide advocate a pardon or commute his sentence.

Kevorkian is serving a 10- to 25-year sentence for second-degree murder for giving a fatal injection of drugs to a man who was suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease in 1998. It was one of more than 130 assisted suicides in which Kevorkian claims to have taken part

Regulators are monitoring the antiviral Tamiflu after reports from Japan that two teenagers who had taken the drug committed suicide.

The European Medicines Evaluation Agency finds no evidence directly linking Tamiflu and the teenagers' suicides. However, the flu itself could lead to delusions

In a typical American high school classroom, three students one boy and two girls have attempted suicide over the past year.

Since the U.S. Surgeon General's "Call to Action to Prevent Suicide" in 1999, focus has risen on suicide as a public health crisis. The incidents add up to 30,000 deaths a year among all Americans

Contrary to what many might believe, a new study shows that smoking marijuana that smoking marijuana on a regular basis is not as harmful as smoking cigarettes, as an ingredient known as THC, keeping it from promoting lung cancer.

Whereas nicotine has several effects that promote lung and other types of cancer, THC acts in ways that counter the cancer-causing chemicals in marijuana smoke, according to Dr. Robert Melamede of the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs