The long, steady decline in teen smoking in the U.S. since the late 1990s appears to have come to a standstill, health officials said Friday.
A survey released this week showed that smokin...
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Web site rewrites New Zealand lawThe New Zealand police recently unveiled a communally editable Web site, or Wiki, that allows the public to participate in the writing of its new police act. The po...
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The recent decision by the FDA to allow non-prescription access to the so-called "morning after" pill by women 18 and older still brought complaints by women's advocacy groups and many others. They...
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The world probably didn't need another film version of John Waters' 1988 romp "Hairspray" any more than it needed a Broadway musical version of it. The whole cycle reeks of that movie-of-a-stage-pr...
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President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger, has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Ch...
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