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About a third of Fairfax County teenage students say they have engaged in sexual intercourse, a lower rate than the national average, according to a biennial behavioral survey in county schools that asked questions about sexual activity this year for the first time.

A BOY of 15 in Brazil has become one of a handful of people worldwide to have survived the normally deadly rabies infection.

Health staff are to stage a "work to rule" next month and will take strike action in the New Year unless a three-year pay deal is improved, it was announced yesterday

A NEW era of intelligent cancer drug development has spurred a leap in the proportion of drugs reaching patients, Cancer Research UK scientists said yesterday.

The number of claims for whiplash injuries following road accidents is soaring, say British insurance firms.

The Labor Department released a new regulation yesterday allowing workers to take up to 26 weeks off each year to care for family members seriously injured in the military.

WHEN Aids first struck an unsuspecting American population in 1981, no-one had a clue what caused this lethal new disease, or where it came from.

THERE is no convincing case to support an opt-out system for organ donation in the United Kingdom, an influential House of Lords committee said yesterday.

THE head of the Scottish Ambulance Service has quit after an investigation into staff claims of bullying and harassment, it was announced last night.

CONTROLS on alcohol advertising should be extended to the internet as part of the drive against under-age drinking, a conference in Edinburgh will be told next week.