Obama cuts federal funding for abstinence-only education and Bristol Palin emerges as its "do as I say" champion. Caroline Johnston Polisi picks apart the tangle of federal policy and real-life national sit-com.

GENEVA - The World Health Organization has told its member nations it is declaring a swine flu pandemic -- the first global flu epidemic in

What We Do Know Can Hurt Us -- "The ability to mount an immune response to influenza A (H1N1) infection is significantly compromised by a low level of arsenic exposure." This statement was made WRT when a "normal person or mouse is infected with the flu".

Lawyers for the Tiller family said today that Dr. Tiller's Wichita abortion clinic will not reopen. ""Effective immediately, Women's Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed," lawyers Dan Monnat and Lee Thompson announced in a statement.

A life-saving malaria vaccine could be available within the next few years if final trials, which began last week, are successful -- 16,000 children in several African countries will be inoculated during this last phase.

Ottawa, Montréal, Washington, Canberra - Monday, June 1, 2009. Farmers, consumers and civil society organizations in Australia, Canada and the U.S. released a joint statement confirming their collective commitment to stop commercialization of genetically

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Somali refugees like Yahya Iman have resettled in the U.S, but freedom from war & persecution aren't without a price. Iman's mentally ill sister was put under the care of Minnesota social services, & the family's culture clashes with the state efforts.

Health experts are calling on the United States and other world powers to do more to prevent diarrheal disease, an easily preventable ailment that is one of the leading killers of children, and a growing global concern. Around 5,000 children die daily.

U.S. President Barack Obama's failure to lift a federal funding ban on syringe exchange -- a policy that allows intravenous drug users to swap used needles for clean ones -- is a blow to AIDS-prevention efforts, says a global health group.