Each year, one in three pregnancies in the United States are unintended. One third of those end in abortion.

Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) rich nations meeting in Japan next month must tackle health scourges in developing countries to boost global prosperity and security, eight international organizations said on Monday.

Family Health Internationals staff will make several key presentations and the organization will introduce a number of new publications at the annual Global Health Councils International Conference May 27-31, 2008, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington

A panel of experts convened by Health Canada is recommending new optimal concentrations of fluoride in drinking water and suggesting the levels of fluoride ingested via a variety of sources by children and infants be lowered.

The population issue has long been dead and buried in developed and most developing countries, including historically Catholic countries. That it continues to be debated heatedly in our country merely testifies to the lack of progress in policy and action