A new study from the UK indicates one can induce a 40% genetic predisposition to obesity by living an active lifestyle, which finding challenges the popular view that people genetically predisposed to obesity cannot lose weight with exercise.

The study has been published online on 31st August in the journal PLoS Medicine.

Medical trials suggest, ivabradine, a drug in pill form that costs less than £1.50 a day, and which is already available in the UK for treating angina, has the potential to save the lives of as many as 10,000 heart failure patients, according to Prof. Martin Cowie, who led the UK-based part of the study.

The coalition government has confirmed plans to scrap the NHS Direct helpline in England and replace it with a cheaper option.

Over the weekend, the Department of Health (DoH) confirmed the replacement of NHS Direct with 111, the new non-emergency phone number, after health secretary Andrew Lansley let slip the plan on a hospital visit last week.

A shocking report reveals elderly patients are being left to starve to death in hospitals, a shocking report reveals today.

Over 200 die from malnutrition every year, while 180,000 are left behind in poor condition.

Reiterating their warning, the police have asked the residents of Upper Valley, St. Ives and the surrounding villages to be extra vigilant following reports of bogus callers continuing to operate in the area, targeting the elderly.

Following successful tests in England, the launch of the ‘lollicam’ initiative at Knightswood Primary, with see the lollipops of lollipop men and women at three primary schools in Glasgow fitted with cameras.

In a bid to save £6.6 million by end-April 2011, the abolition of local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) by 2013, will see 197 jobs axed across NHS Tees.

People across the region are being encouraged by NHS North East Strategic Health Authority to be abolished by 2013, to get involved, so they can have their say on the future of the NHS.

Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, outgoing President of the Royal College of Physicians demanded the Government accept the offer to decriminalise drugs. James Treadwell, a famous criminologist from the University of Leicester is of the same opinion and feels