Drinking has become one of the major health hazards in England. Figures released today show that one in three men and one in six women are at risk of physical and psychological harm as a result of their drinking habits.

Latina teen pregnancy has been on the rise and has become a national cause of concern. Even with the background of concerned Latino parents the knowledge that attending college or pursuing a career might get hampered due to teenage pregnancy, more than half of all Hispanic girls in the United States experience teen pregnancy.

According to the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR), the past decade has seen number of people with skin cancer in Northern Ireland increase by three folds.

The figures indicate over exposure of skin to damaging UV rays from sun bathing and using sunbeds.

The public finally gets the opportunity to `test drive' Microsoft's My Phone cloud-based mobile synchronization service, with the company announces the opening of its beta on Tuesday. The open beta of the My Phone service - Microsoft's equivalent of the Apple MobileMe service - is now available for all users with a Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.1 smartphones.

Saying that it was "energized" by its first round of utility partners announced Tuesday, for the PowerMeter gadget, Google has expressed its gratification at the successful initiation of its plans pertaining to the roll-out of home energy monitoring systems.

In a letter to physicians, Medtronic Inc. has warned that nearly 37,000 of its pacemakers, produced late 1990s onwards, could possibly have wiring defects due to which a malfunctioning of the medical equipment is quite possible.

According to a 'Heatwave Plan' unveiled by the Britain's Department of Health, for preparing people to face a potential heatwave this summer, the government has advised the Britons to stay in shade, paint their houses white, and plant some trees and shrubs!

The patent-infringement lawsuit battle has intensified, with Amazon hitting back at Discovery Communications in vengeance! After Discovery sued Amazon for patent infringement pertaining to its e-book reader, Kindle, in March, Amazon has countersued Discovery for infringing on its patents related to several e-commerce aspects.

According to a study is published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, May 20 edition, Dr. Douwe E. Atsma - an interventional cardiologist at Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands - and colleagues reported that injecting bone marrow cells directly into the heart's muscular wall helps restore blood flow, thereby appreciably improving angina symptoms and heart function.

The findings of a study conducted by Dr Chaim M Bell - a scientist at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto - and colleagues, substantiate the earlier studies, which concluded that intake of Flomax - tamsulosin - by older men can be linked to cataract complications.