HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii health leaders are seeking to keep the state's universal child health care program alive. Uninsured children will have limited options once the universal health program ends Jan. 1.

London, April 24 : Family breakdown and peer pressure are fuelling the numbers of children suffering from mental health problems in Britain, according to a report.

Children are suffering an epidemic of mental health problems due to family breakdown, body image worries and too many school tests, a report warns today. Under far greater pressure than youngsters a generation ago, they are increasingly falling victim to

Noise from traffic is putting nearly one in six San Francisco residents at risk for heart disease, blood pressure and other stress-related illnesses, city public health officials have found. The San Francisco Department of Public Health ranked "highly an

Despite significant funding for HIV/AIDS treatment in the developing world and efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission, the global response to the disease has "short-changed" children, health workers at the XVII International AIDS Conference in