AFP - The European Commission unveiled Thursday a new action plan for tackling drug abuse, with cocaine consumption in Europe on the rise.

AP - A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect.

AP - The nation's leading psychologists' association has voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other military detention sites where it believes international law is being violated.

AP - Thousands of parents anxious over tainted baby milk powder rushed their infants to hospitals for health checks on Thursday as the government said that a fourth child had died in the scandal that has engulfed one-fifth of the nation's formula makers.

Reuters - There is no such thing as a safe tan, U.S. and British researchers said on Thursday.

Reuters - China has vowed to overhaul its "chaotic" dairy industry in the wake of a toxic milk scandal that has killed three infants and made thousands more ill, as worried parents flocked to hospitals to have their children examined.

Reuters - Patients are more likely to choose a money-saving generic drug over more expensive branded medicines when using a home delivery pharmacy instead of a retail drug store, according to a study by Express Scripts Inc.

AP - A government agency has dropped plans for a study of a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children.

AP - Police arrested 12 more people Thursday as China expanded a crackdown in a scandal involving tainted milk powder as a fourth death was announced and more than 6,200 other babies were sick from the powder.

AP - A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect.