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Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for medicinal and recreational use.

Davos - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Thursday that the European Union faced a host of dangers and could "fracture" in the months to come.

Calais - A young man in Calais, Maine was drinking with his friends and celebrating the Fourth of July Saturday night when he decided to launch a firework off the top of his head. The firework exploded, fatally injuring him.

That candy your kids are munching on may contain more than sugars and artificial flavoring. Drug traffickers discovered a new way to spread their products. The active ingredient in marijuana, THC oil, is easy to mix into candy, and no one is the wiser.

With their baggy pants and bandanas, snowboarders are among the coolest competitors at the Winter Olympics, whipping the spectators into a frenzy of excitement with their gravity-defying aerial tr

Fukushima - It is estimated that in the United States there is one rat for every human. Rats have spread diseases such as Bubonic Plague and Typhus just to name a few. But is it really possible that a rat can take down a modern nuclear power plant?

The extreme lack of knowledge on the existence and dangers of tree wells became very apparent me to me a year ago when skiing with my brother at Whistler Mountain, British Columbia.

This is the first study of its kind, it is peer-reviewed, and will be published in the American journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology. The results are not reassuring.

A recent letter published by doctors in The Lancet highlights the dangers associated with ingestion of magnets. The doctors are warning parents to take extra care their children do not accidentally swallow them.

Monsanto's controversial herbicide, Roundup, has now been linked to Parkinsonism related disorders according to research reported in the Neurotoxicology & Teratology journal.

The Canadian Pediatric Society is calling for a ban on tanning bed use for under-18 consumers. Some of the dangers from commercial indoor tanning include premature aging, eye damage and skin cancer; in particular deadly melanoma.

Washington - Hearings began on Wednesday in the House of Representatives to debate a law, one that will allow the government to censor the Internet. By listening to only one of six witnesses, the House was able to avoid hearing of the dangers of Internet censorship.

How much sleep is healthy? Turns out if you get too little sleep, or if you sleep too much, you could meet with a premature death.

Finally, there could be a break in the way the government perceives medical marijuana. Right now it's classified as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use.

Are vaccines behind the many illnesses our children have today? That is one theory that is going around. Robert Kennedy, Jr. is one of those that question if our children are in danger of their vaccines.

The debate is over about whether a guy should leave the toilet seat up or put it down after finishing personal business. So much of the Western world can relax now that the facts are in.

Sports-related injuries in high schools and universities across the nation aren't just coming from football or other seemingly violent sports. A recent report reveals that two-thirds of those injuries are from the popular spirit event of cheerleading.

The young like to drink. It's the time in the lives of some that they do their heavy drinking and partying before settling down. That drinking is producing alcohol related disease in younger people, and women are being hit hard.

When one is shocked with a TASER some think that while it is painful it's fairly safe. It would seem that it has to be safe after all police departments TASER officers as part of training. Just how safe is the TASER gun really?

We have heard how genetic agriculture will "save" the planet by being able to produce more produce for the world. The negatives haven't had a lot of press though. And there are many.

There is nothing inherently wrong with biofuel, if produced properly. However, current manufacturing is often the cause of food shortages, loss of wildlife habitat, huge carbon emissions and population displacement.

Dangers of working at home, a Sony advertisement Video, Funny.