In Alabama, the suicide rate among young people aged 10-14 has doubled in the last two decades, says a report from the Alabama State Department of Education, titled Youth Suicide: “The Silent Epidemic ...

Connecticut lawmakers are weighing a bill on authorizing electric shock therapy either with or without a person’s consent.

One North Alabama lawmaker wants to raise the age at which individuals can make their own medical decisions. State Senator ...

Two basically identical bills that would raise the age, from 14 to 18, at which people can make their own medical decisions ...

The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday requiring parental consent for a minor to receive a vaccine. The bill, HB2, was introduced by Rep. Chip Brown, R-Mobile, and passed on a vote ...

The Health Minister has confirmed hormone therapies would be paused for new public patients under 18 at Queensland Health facilities, and revealed the scope of the “rogue” gender clinic scandal.

Children already on a treatment plan — nearly 600 ... north's Cairns Sexual Health Service without proper medical support and parental consent. Queensland's Liberal National government said ...

Just months after an NBC News investigation revealed that a Texas university had run a “flourishing business” providing unclaimed bodies to medical researchers around the world, the president ...

Iraq has passed a law that would legalise the marriage of children as young as nine. Three divisive laws have now been passed which give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters ...

Three Israeli hostages who were brought home after 471 days in Gaza have shared harrowing testimony of the horrors they faced in Hamas captivity - an ordeal they feared they might never escape.