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Extracurricular classroom activities specially designed to highlight the dangers of tobacco can help reduce the number of school-going adolescents taking up smoking, a new study in India has shown.

Tonight, May 21, 2009 at 6 CDT, Is SMMC's Second Live Broadcast Featuring a Twitter Feed

A girl born in Japan today will likely live to celebrate her 86th birthday, the longest life expectancy anywhere in the world. Men fare best in the tiny, wealthy European nation of San Marino, where the average boy will live to 81.

A girl born in Japan today will likely live to celebrate her 86th birthday, the longest life expectancy anywhere in the world, the World Health Organization reports.

, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic will co-chair a symposium, "Emerging Clinical Applications of Genotype-Guided Psychotropics for Depressive Disorders," at the annual meetin...

Georgia has received $63.9 million in Ryan White Program grants to fund treatment and other services for people living with HIV, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Grant recipients include county health departments and community organizations.

Described by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's greatest living explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has refused to let a double heart bypass dent his spirit of adventure.

GENEVA (AP) -- A girl born in Japan today will likely live to celebrate her 86th birthday, the longest life expectancy anywhere in the world. Men fare best in the tiny, wealthy European nation of San Marino, where the average boy will live to 81....

On the second annual World Hepatitis Day, the World Hepatitis Alliance today called on governments not to forget the plight of 500 million people living with hepatitis B and C, as the World Health Assembly postpones discussion of a World Health Organization (WHO) resolution on viral hepatitis - one of the biggest threats to global health.

To reduce youth usage of tobacco products, to enhance State efforts to eliminate retail sales of tobacco products to minors, and for other purposes. . . . Amends the Public Health Service Act to set forth conditions for the receipt by states of federal substance abuse prevention and treatment grants. Requires such states to: (1) prohibit a minor from purchasing or receiving a tobacco product or possessing a tobacco product in a public place; and (2) require law enforcement agencies to notify a minor's parent, custodian, or guardian whose name and address is reasonably ascertainable of any such violation. Requires such states to require any person engaged in the business of distributing tobacco products at retail to implement a program to: (1) notify its employees that state law prohibits the sale or distribution of tobacco products to minors and the purchase, receipt, or possession in a public place of a tobacco product by a minor; and (2) ensure compliance with such law. Directs