The emergence of a mutated strain of bird flu capable of side-stepping vaccines has raised fears about a new outbreak of the disease.

In its warning yesterday, the police suggested there was a possibility the person responsible for deliberately contaminating the medical equipment related to the death of at least three patients, was still working at the hospital.

The British Medical Association guidelines warns medics to be careful in their use of social media like Facebook and Twitter, highlighting a series of pitfalls they could face.

The risk of blurring lines between personal and professional lives was mentioned, particularly, following several cases of NHS staff and other public sector workers getting into trouble via use of social media.

A cattle-killing virus proven to be a curse through the ages has been eradicated, declared world farm monitors Wednesday. For the first time in human history, researchers have been successful in eradicating an animal disease. The last 14 countries in the world have been declared free of rinderpest or cattle plague, a report approved by the global watchdog for farm-animal trade certifies.

The Medicare Protection Act introduced a more secure card, designed to improve patient safety and reduce fraud, into the B. C. legislature, today, with the Government of British Columbia (BC) planning to combine Care Cards with driver’s licences for reducing health care fraud by increasing security measures.

Researchers report stem cell therapy has been successfully used to shrink hearts dangerously swollen after heart attacks.

The large forces in the fight against obesity are taking aim at sugar.

Despite finding no evidence that the World Health Organization (WHO) exaggerated the swine flu pandemic to help vaccine companies get rich, a panel of independent experts have severely criticised the agency’s handling of the 2009 H1N1 epidemic.

ACT Health is warning pregnant women to get vaccinated early against swine flu expected to make a reappearance this year.

Last year, around 17,300 Australians fell ill with flu last year, however, health authorities do not believe that to be the correct figure as many people may not have got themselves tested.

The British Dental Association (BDA) warned today, the government to be elected in May will need to take quick action for building on improvements to the oral health of the nation.