Researchers have found in an early study that fasting might be helping in making chemotherapy work better as it makes infection weaker.

The research has been conducted in mice and it is not known if it will have similar results in humans. It is also known if the approach will be safer for humans. According to researchers, the study offers a new approach to develop treatment for cancer.

According to a new study in Canada, people who use cannabis are at double risk of crashing their cards when they drive compared to those who are not under the influence of drugs.

Researchers found that the risk doubles because cannabis interfered with brain and motor functions that are needed to drive carefully. Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada analyzed nine studies of 50,000 people from around the world who have been in serious accidents.

MPs have urged general practitioners in the country to work with the local councils to improve social care in the country for older and vulnerable people.

Members of Parliament from the health select committee has recommended creation og closer joint working between the NHS and local government for improving care in the country. They aim to address the issue of fragment health care system in the country.

Scientists have found a link between Y chromosome and risks of heart attacks in men in a new study that could help in the development of new treatments for men or help doctors find if patient is at a high risk of heart attack.

Scientists showed how the coronary heart disease (CHD) passes down the male line. They found that genetic variations on the Y chromosome increases the risk of siffering from a heart attack.

A new government campaign in England states that people who drink just over the recommended daily limit for alcohol face an increased risk of health problems.

The campaign says that those who drink two glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day have thrice the risk of developing mouth cancer compared to those who do not drink daily. The ads under the campaign, Change4Life urges people to reduce their drinking.

A new report has criticized the Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust for not being able to provide medical service efficiently to the peple.

The repot by Monitor was critical of the trust for inadequacies in management and staffing as well as for missing patient follow-up appointments. The trust was earlier in the news after the media reported a number of deaths at Furness General Hospital's maternity unit.

A new government campaign is aiming to increase awareness about the symptoms of bowel cancer in the UK. The promotion titled, `Be Clear On Cancer promotion' will run until the end of March.

According to officials, the NHS will see an increase in the number of referrals as a result of the launch of the campaign. The campaign, which is the first of its type, includes Frazer Hines, who played Joe Sugden in Yorkshire soap Emmerdale for 22 years.

A new research has found that about half of the general practitioners are suffering from burnouts mainly due to increased stress. Male doctors are at a higher risk of burnout than their female counterparts. Researchers found that doctors who work in group practices and those who repeatedly see the same patients were at a higher risk of burnout. The researchers used the Maslach Burnout Inventory to access 564 out of 789 eligible GPs working in Essex in one of the largest studies of its kind in the UK.

According to a new study, the number of deaths linked to heart attacks has halved since 2002 and part of the reason is that people's hearts are getting stronger.

People in the country are suffering fewer heart attacks than earlier and fewer of them are fatal. Factors such as avoiding smoking, eating a healthy diet, cutting cholesterol and lowering blood pressure not only reduces the risks of heart attacks but also ensures that if they occur they are not life threatening.

The BBC Three has started a new run of the popular documentary, series Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands

Junior Doctors were popular among the viewer last year and proved to a hit for the channel, which introduced them to a team of charming medics. Junior Doctor's become so popular that it received some of its highest ever ratings and was repeated on Prime time on BBC One.

Andy Steval, who has the distinction of being the youngest doctor in the hospital, is shown struggling to put a canula into a vein of his elderly patient Mr. Straw. He is shown at the trauma and orthopaedic ward of a London hospital.

The Northern Ireland health minister, Edwin Poots has said that the infection killed three babies at a Belfast hospital came from sink taps.

He said that the Pseudomonas bacteria originated in taps at the neo-natal unit in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital. The doctors detected seventh case of as Pseudomonas on Tuesday.

"I can report that investigations so far have shown that pseudomonas bacteria have been found in a number of taps in the intensive care area of the neonatal unit in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital," Mr Poots said.

Simon Cowell has begun treatment to get rid of his addiction of smoking at an addiction clinic in after friends and family urged him to give up the dirty habbit.

The 52-year-old music mogul and X Factor boss smokes more than 15 cigarettes a day and has been smoking at age eight. According to a report in The People, he took the decision after Family and friends have begged him to stop smoking.

Associations and unions representing nurses and midwives have joined other industry bodies to oppose government’s plan to change NHS in England.

The Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives had already expressed concerns over the proposed changes and had told the ministers that they are willing to work with the to find suitable solutions. However, now the body has said that the bill proposing changes should be scrapped.

Jean Gross, government's outgoing communication adviser has said that parents in the UK should be reminded through text messages about the importance of talking to their children.

Gross said that the message should be sent using a `full range of technologies' including phone apps, social media, texting and daytime television to lay down the importance of parents talking to their children.

UK's Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has urged the private health clinics in the UK to "step up to their responsibilities" in the faulty breast implants case.

Lansley has said that the private clinics that fitted their patients with faulty breast implants and think they should be removed must base the financial cost of removing them for the women. Lansley asked the private medical centers should offer a similar to those patients who had paid for cosmetic surgery.

UK’s NHS’s has offered to pay for removing implants on the NHS units that are anxious to have them removed.

Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley has said that the private clinics that fitted their patients with faulty breast implants and think they should be removed must base the financial cost of removing them for the women. Lansley asked the private medical centers should offer a similar to those patients who had paid for cosmetic surgery.

A hospital nurse named, Victorino Chua, who was arrested for being a suspect in the murder of three patients at Stepping Hill Hospital, has been granted bail until further investigations are carried out.

46-year-old Chua was also held for being a suspect of causing grievous bodily harm with intent on as many as 18 counts. He was first arrested by the investigators for tampering with the hospital records.

Recently revealed details of the 1911 census in the UK have revealed the way people through about health issues about a hundred years ago. The section relating to illnesses and infirmities offered showed an insight into how people through about health issues at that time. The responses to the questions in the survey were in bad taste, sexist or politically motivated, it has been found.

According to a record, people said they were suffering from illnesses like `old age' and `bald'. In the survey, the head of the family had to describe details of people's ailments on the night of Sunday April 2, 1911.

About one thousand supermarket stores in the UK are now offering discounts on healthy food as it has been found that about a quarter of the population in the country are obese. According to the latest data, about a forth of the people in the UK are overweight, while only bout 6 per cent believe that they are obese. The initiative to offer discounts on healthy food is a part of the Department of Health's Change 4 Life campaign.

Supermarket stores of Asda, the Co-op and Aldi are now offering discounts on healthy food to promote healthy eating habits. The stores are offering discounts on healthy ingredients such as fruit and vegetables and low fat yoghurts.

Labour has as ked the UK government for a clearer lead for the women affected by the faulty implants. Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary has asked the government in the UK for a clear plan for the more than 40,000 women in the country who have undergone surgery and are fitted with breast implants with industrial-grade silicone gel. He also wants the government to make it clears as to who will pay for the replacement surgeries.

"What the thousands of women affected need is for the government to agree a clear protocol with the private cosmetic surgery industry, setting out the support that they will provide," said Burnham.