Newfoundland and Labrador Health Minister Ross Wiseman is attempting to avert a medical crisis in the province by meeting the demands of the resigned cervix and ovarian cancer doctors.

In a radio interview, Wiseman said, "We're working through the issues that have been identified and we're hoping they'll be resolved in the short term

HIV rates among American blacks are higher than those in impoverished nations that are part of a $15 billion AIDs programs from the United States, and nearly equal to those of African nations, a new report said on Tuesday.

"More Black Americans are infected with HIV than the total populations of people living with HIV in seven of the 15 countries served by PEPFAR [President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief]," Black AIDS Institute chief executive Phill Wilson said in a statement

It may be a tough task to ask kids to slow down their physical activity in pre-teen years but a new study show childhood activity declines dramatically in teenage years.

Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, tracked children beginning at age 9 and then again at ages 11, 12, and 15. They found that children get sluggish by age 15, with their physical activity dipping well below the recommended 60 minutes a day for good health

More than 365 Internet sites are selling controlled medications like narcotics and stimulants by mail, a new study has found.

These sites also do not require a prescription to buy the drugs and none of them has controls to prevent children from making such purchases, say the authors of the report released Wednesday by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

The New York City health department has launched a campaign on the social networking Web site MySpace to help teenagers who are depressed, using drugs or experiencing violence.

The MySpace page, called NYC Teen Mindspace features three fictional characters - Kyle, Nicole and Stephanie - designed to represent teens dealing with depression, drug use and other problems. The page allows the teenagers to take quizzes to analyse their mood and behavior and also directs them to counselors