According to a new report, the rate of malnourished pensioners hospitalized has increased by 50 per cent in just five years.

During the last 12 months, the number of those who need treatment increased 14 per cent. The patients not need care from hospital every week as most of the victims are above the age of 60. The figures show a gr scenario of elderly care in the UK.

A team of 40 firefighters, scaffolders, builders, doctors and social workers, who were not able to move the UK's fattest teen out of her house, had to rip of her three bedroom home in South Wales.

Georgia Davis was taken to a hospital form her house and remained grave as health staff treated her for multiple organ failure caused by obesity. Doctors say that obesity might have killed her in just a few more days. 19-year-old Georgia now weighs the same as a young elephant, a fact that shocked the nation that is facing an obesity epidemic.

A novel portable device will now aid medical physicians identify dengue virus-containing mosquitoes and help lessen the chances of human contagions all over the globe.

Each year, around one million individuals, a large part of whom are kids, need to hospitalize for severe dengue.

In addition, more than a 100 million individuals being infected internationally can lead to mild debilitation through to the severe complexities of dengue haemorrhagic fever.

A team of scientists have said that they have successfully turned patients' own skin cells into healthy heart muscle in laboratory experiment.

They believe that the experiment will lead to development of treatments used to treat heart failure patients. As the cells are from the patient, it avoids the problem of tissue rejection, the scientists said.

Trials on animals have resulted in promising results but the experimental treatment is still years away from being offered to the patients.

According to a new report, flaws in the diabetic care in the NHS causes 24,000 unnecessary deaths every year. The National Audit Office (NAO) found that there was a huge difference in the quality of care from one region to another.

The Royal College of Nursing has claimed that the community health services are being affected and could reach a breaking point as nurses are being overloaded with additional work.

RCN General Secretary Peter Carter said that nurses would express their concerns during their annual conference, which is expected to be addressed the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley. The association said that the cuts to councils and hospitals have resulted in overburdening of nurses within the NHS.

Health experts in the UK have warned that commonly used IVF procedures in the country pose threats to mothers and babies' as they are exposed to toxic drugs in the procedures.

A great-grandmother in Manchester has become the first person in the UK to be cured of her skin ulcers through a new treatment.

Jessie Townley, who is 92 years old, underwent an hour long operation at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester that involved skin cells from diseased donors that are known as decellularised dermis.

According to a new study, about a sixth of all cancers or about two million a year globally are caused by infections that are mostly treatable or preventable.

The Lancet Infectious Diseases review studied incidence rates for 27 cancers in 184 countries and found that four main infections were responsible for the disease. It found that the infections, human papillomaviruses, Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis B and C viruses caused 1.9 million cases of cervical, gut and liver cancers.

Anil, a HIV-positive patient, from  has killed himself by hanging on May 05.

As per reports, Anil was diagnosed with the deadly disease a few months back and was getting treatment at a hospital.

The reports also said that Anil's life partner had also kill herself a few months ago by taking poison as she was also suffering from the same illness (HIV-positive).

The pair had adopted a baby girl who now has to live with her grandma.

Anil went to take bath but when he did not came out of the bathroom after an hour, his mom Ramkali got doubtful.

In spite of a huge public awareness movement on deterrence of HIV-AIDS, the figure of HIV positive cases is going up in Madurai region.

According to the facts available with the district authorities, the figure appears to be climbing up each month.

In January 2012, there were around 86 HIV positive cases reported from Madurai. This number reached 108 in the month of February whereas the March figure depicted that 111 people tested positive for HIV.

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw promoted Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) announced that it would establish four 5,000 bed health cities in the country.

NH CMD Dr. Ashutosh Raghuvanshi stated, "We shall build four more 5,000 bed health cities in India, apart from Bangalore and Ahmedabad. These shall offer medical care facilities in heart, kidney and cancer. One city each is planned in Jaipur and West Bengal, while two shall come up on the outskirts of Kolkata"

Cystinosis is a rare genetic disease, which is difficult to identify. It is an uncommon condition in which the body collects surplus amino acid cystine resulting in the development of crystals that can harm cells.

Six kids in the state of Tamil Nadu who have cystinosis might now have a shot at a better life.

On May 02, four of the kids got registered with Sapiens Health Foundation, which will offer them treatment, came together to unveil the Cystinosis Chapter of India.

In addition, Kollywood super star Rajnikanth also attended the function.

A team of doctors have said that they have used an eye implant to help blind patients regain useful sight only weeks after undergoing the treatment.

They said that the patients who have an inherited form of blindness called retinitis pigmentosa (RP) regained their vision weeks after a light-sensitive microchip was inserted into the back of their eye. The treatment replicates the natural method in which the eye processes light and sends messages to the brain.

According to a new report, a hygiene campaign for at hospitals across England and Wales that was funded by the government helped save as many as 10,000 lives by reducing the number of superbug infections.

The government had launched the hygiene campaign called, CleanYourHands campaign in 2004 and since them the purchase of soap and alcoholic hand rub by the NHS rose three times, showed the study. It was also found that MRSA rates were reduced to less than half in the same period and there was a significant drop in the number of Clostridium difficile infections.

A doctor has apologized for not requesting physiotherapy sooner for a baby, who died days following the incident in 2009.

The doctor is accused of mistreating the family of the seriously-ill baby named, Hayley Fullerton, who died of heart failure at Birmingham Children's Hospital on November 11 2009. The family of the baby girl has accused the medical staff of neglecting her and also ignoring their concerns the baby's breathing while she was recovering from corrective heart surgery.

A new study has found that a compound in garlic is about 100 times more effecting is fighting a type of bacteria called, Campylobacter that causes food poisoning than some of the antibiotics used by doctors.

Campylobacter is usually found on the surface of poultry and inside the flesh and the cases of food poising have been rising. The compound in garlic was found to be 100 times more effecting in fighting campylobacter than two of the antibiotics.

A new study on prostate cancer, which is the world's biggest randomised trial of the disease, is likely to indicate that the current standard surgical treatment used to fight the disease is ineffective.

The study says that surgical removal of the prostate gland is like watchful waiting", which means doing nothing. It also found that the surgery does not extend the lives of the patients. Health experts are unsure about how to respond to the study as any other alternative treatment is not yet available.

According to a new study, children who are bullied in their childhood are up to three times more likely to self harm till the age of 12 years compared to those who have not been subject to such treatment.

The study conducted by the researchers working at King's College London showed that about a fourth of the children in the UK are bullied at some point during their school lives. The study included more than 1000 pairs of twins at
5, 7, 10 and 12 years of age.

Researchers have found link between use of tanning bed and sunburns in childhood and adolescence to increased risk of melanoma, which is the most serious form of skin cancer.

Dermatologists in Canada are advising people to start using sunscreen as they move to wearing summer cloths and their bodies are exposed to more sunlight. They found that women under the age of 40 were the most affected by the disease.