According to the survey released on Tuesday, on an average, families in Punjab spend 44.9% of their income on health problems and the families in Haryana spend 40% of their income on health expences.  

The survey, conducted by National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and Max New York Life Insurance, found that "in Punjab, for an average household income of Rs.77,325, the annual health expenses are Rs.34,729, which is 44.9 percent of the income".

A recent research has shown that mentally ill people smoke more as compared to general population. This study showed that instances of smoking have been halved in general population of Australia in last 20 years but there has been no major change in smoking rates in people with psychiatric disabilities. This study was led Kristen Saxone-Moeller from the University of Melbourne's Melbourne School of Population Health.

Recent Scottish survey has shown that various misconceptions and beliefs regarding long-acting hormonal contraception are stopping women to use them. According to medical experts, hormonal contraception is best form of contraception. This survey showed that most women harbor false notion like weight-gain, adverse effect on fertility due to this kind of contraception. These contraceptives are suggested by medical experts because of their reliability and fewer side effects.

Doctors at the Apollo Hospital have carried out a liver transplant on Sivojit Paul, a seven-month-old child from Kolkata, to treat a rare liver problem known as Biliary Atresia, in which there is no link between the intestine and the liver to excrete the bile. 

Sivojit became the youngest Indian child ever to go through a liver transplant.

The liver transplant was performed in September by a group of 20 doctors chaired by Dr. Subhash Gupta, senior consultant with the hospital. 

According to a new study U.S and Dutch scientists have identified two genes and confirmed the involvement of a third gene in increasing the risk of higher levels of uric acid in gout, a common and painful form of arthritis.  

The researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research found that all three genetic variations, taken together, were linked with up to a 40-fold increased risk in developing gout.

According to a new study a single injection of chemotherapy drug can help cure a common type of testicular cancer in many patients. The researchers at Southampton University say that chemotherapy drug carboplatin is commonly used to treat ovarian and lung cancer. Researchers have found that carboplatin injection can effectively cure early stage seminoma with fewer side effects and the patients resume their normal lives much more quickly than radiotherapy.