A French court has rejected a plea for doctor-assisted suicide by a female schoolteacher suffering from a rare cancer that disfigures her face.

The ruling against 52-year-old Chantal Sabire's euthanasia petition was issued by a court in the eastern city of Dijon on Monday. The ruling was on grounds that doctor-assisted suicide is a crime under French law and that medical ethics prohibits doctors from helping patients to die

Injuries resulting from drowning, suffocation and road accidents are among the leading killers of Asian children. That news comes from groundbreaking research by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which is appealing for scaled-up injury prevention initiatives.

The survey, conducted jointly with the Alliance for Safe Children (TASC) over the past seven years, highlights the fact that the risk of death from injuries rises after infancy. That is because children become more independent and the danger from infectious and non-communicable diseases drops

Because of a large number of complaints it has received from patients who have undergone laser eye surgery, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to have a national study on the relationship between LASIK complications and life quality.

Patients who agree to undergo the laser therapy sign release forms that inform them of potential health risks that may arise following the vision-correction procedure. But depression, which may lead to suicide, is not on the list

Parents want doctors to discuss sex, drugs and diet with children.

On the top of a wish list that parents want health caregivers to talk over with children during routine checkups are diet and nutrition, and exercise and sports, according to a report released Monday by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

Heavy drinking in college is sometimes the result of a socially anxious student using alcohol to cope. That type of social drinking has not been studied much, researchers at the University of Arkansas say.

Researchers attempted to analyze data from college students to understand what motivated them to drink