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

Children are the worst affected by the Israeli attacks on Palestine, with 60 percent of them being anemic.

These facts were revealed during the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the main decision-making body of the World Health Organizations. Arab health ministers have sent an urgent letter to the WHO requesting that a fact-finding team investigate the appalling health conditions in the occupied territories

Canada has been struggling the past few years with its infant mortality rate that high-risk pregnant Canadian women are being sent to the U.S. to ensure safe deliveries and newborn survival.

In 1990 Canada was sixth ranking in low infant mortality rate, down to 25th spot in 2005, on the same ranking as Estonia with 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births

The U.S. Defense Department has amended its regulations for obtaining and maintaining security clearance levels in an effort to end the stigma attached to mental health care.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced former and current military and civilian personnel who received mental health counseling while on active duty no longer have to acknowledge that fact when they fill out security clearance forms. The only exception to this rule is if the treatment was court ordered or if the problem involved violence

With Nova Scotia as well as the rest of Canada's population turning gray, there is an urgent need to revise the province's outdated laws on incapacitated residents, said Nova Scotia Health Minister Chris d'Entremont. He is pushing for a legislation that would permit residents to appoint another person to make vital decisions concerning personal care if he becomes incapacitated.

Other Canadian provinces had gone ahead and made one. Alberta had a personal care directives law since 1997, British Columbia enacted one in 2000 and New Brunswick passed the Infirm Persons Act recently