According to a Tuesday-released report, test results from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate that less than half of fourth- and eighth-graders in Minnesota are proficient in science.

A new research has urged banning cigarette advertisements, as they induces teenager to puff smokes.

The study that was carried out by researchers from Dartmouth Medical Center in New Hampshire included more than 2,100 public school students in Germany aged 10 to 17 and among them 277 students were such who started smoking under the influence of advertisement.

Despite the ongoing attempts by the New Hampshire utilities' crews to restore power to the nearly 360,000 customers affected by power supply outage - after the Thursday night storm that uprooted trees, shattered utility poles, and damaged power lines - a vast number of people still remained without power till Sunday afternoon.

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast resigned, struggling to live another day in wait for utility crews to resume electricity connection after powerful storms socked the region with heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.

A New Hampshire woman is currently in critical condition because of gastrointestinal anthrax, and State and Federal Authorities are confused and continually looking for naturally occurring source of the anthrax.

Latest official figures released by the Census Bureau have confirmed that for the first time in about 209 years, the population of New Hampshire has managed to exceed that of Maine. Both the states have nearly 1.3 million residents, and new figures released Wednesday have estimated that New Hampshire's population is plus 6,274 people.

Among the many changes and demands that are being made under the new US healthcare reform bill by the Government is the fact that hospitals would have to be more open and public about their standard charges for all services, but it seems that New Hampshire and Maine have gone much further and are looking to make things and cost related issues as transparent for customers as possible.

A federal report said that one in three teenage girls got vaccination shots against cervical cancer but the rates of the vaccine differ dramatically in different states.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the teen birth rate in the United States rose in 26 of the 50 states in the country in 2006.  T

StockerYale, Inc. has notified that the company has secured a production order worth US$ 2.1 million from BAE Systems (BAE), a global defense and aerospace company.