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Adults over the age of 21, including a substantial number of parents and guardians, are contributing to the underage drinking phenomenon by supplying free alcohol to young people.

Mexican drug trafficking organizations represent the largest supplier of illicit drugs to Native American reservations throughout the United States, with marijuana the most widely available illicit drug in Native American communities.

WASHINGTON -- A new report by a Fairfax County commission said the county needs to find ways to boost federal and private funding for mental health services.The report released Friday by the Josiah H....

More needs to be done to protect against outbreaks of infectious diseases, a Lords report says.

Every day, over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation and nearly 1.2 billion practise open defecation, the riskiest sanitary practice of all, according to a report issued today by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. The programme is the official UN mechanism tasked with monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Target 7c on drinking water supply and sanitation.read more

A widely reported Israeli study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, compared three popular weight loss diets - low fat, which was attributed to the American Heart Association, low carbohydrate/high protein based on the Atkins diet, and Mediterranean style. The researchers found that people on the low carbohydrate/high protein diet lost slightly more weight over a two year period. Does that mean that people who are trying to lose weight should adopt a low carbohydrate/high protein diet?read more

'Update on Implementation of HIV Rapid Testing in health Department Supported HIV Prevention Programs,'

Two independent watchdogs are today (Wednesday) calling for a renewed drive to improve public health services after analysing the success of policies over the past decade.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted 29-0 to approve a $119.7 billion fiscal year 2009 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs appropriations bill, CongressDaily reports (Kreisher, CongressDaily, 7/18). The bill would provide $1 billion more in total spending than a version of the legislation passed on June 24 by the House Appropriations Committee and $28.

Delegates from Central Asian countries, United Nations agencies and aid groups recently met in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to discuss methods of preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission and supporting pediatric HIV/AIDS care in the region, Kazakhstan's Kazinform reports.