A team of researchers from Liverpool John Moores University Center for Public Health in Britain says children now reach puberty earlier than ever. As a result, they should be offered advice on adult issues much sooner.

The study found that alcohol abuse, unprotected sex and self harm may result from children receiving information on these sensitive issues later than they ought to. This is because the age at which puberty occurs has reduced over the last 150 years

Experts say that the term schizophrenia should be dealt away with as they claim it inaccurately groups a range of symptoms and encourages dependence on anti-psychotic drugs.

The academics added that it also stamped people as being violent, dangerous and untreatable

A survey by the World Health Organization, involving 24,000 women from 11 countries, revealed that women are more likely to suffer physical or sexual violence from their intimate partners than other perpetrators.

The study published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday also showed that the extent of violence against women by their partners is more severe in rural areas than in urban settings

A new study suggests that children of alcoholic parents could become addicts themselves. In addition, they may undergo emotional, behavioral and mental problems.

Earlier studies reveal that approximately 70 percent of children with alcoholic parents do tend to assume a compulsive behavioral pattern associated with alcohol, drugs, food, sex, work, or gambling. While, half also end up marrying alcoholics

The southern region of Thailand is facing a shortage of doctors and senior medical staff as medical practitioners have been fleeing the area over the past two years due to escalating violence.

On Monday, health officials say nearly half of the doctor's population in the Muslim-dominated Yala and Narathiwat provinces have already left due to Islamic separatist insurgency and other violence which have already caused the death of more than 1,400 people in the region