The new Tobacco and Primary Medical Service (Scotland) Bill includes various plans to save future generations from clutches of smoking and smoking related diseases.

Under the new bill, cigarette vending machines and tobacco displays in shops would be banned. It also includes a registration scheme for retailers. It will also grant trading standards officers the power to fine retailers selling tobacco to under-18s.

Public health minister Shona Robison said that the health risks associated with smoking are both enormous and well documented advertisements.

An international research once again emphasized the importance of healthy living style in prevention of various types of cancer. Earlier studies have also shown importance of healthy diet and exercises on different types of cancer. Recent findings indicated that healthy diets, more exercise and controlling weight could also prevent more than 40 percent of colon and breast cancer cases in some countries.

Manufacturer Novartis recalled 21,000 doses of the meningitis C vaccine as a precautionary step.

Novartis said that it had discovered traces of Staphylococcus Aureus in the aluminium hydroxide solvent in which the vaccine is suspended, during tests on other vials - made at the same time - which had as an experiment been sent by air, rather than by road as they were to Britain. The Staphylococcus Aureus bacterium is associated with blood poisoning and skin infections.

A recent study showed that number of teenage girls getting pregnant in England and Wales have risen for the first time in five years.

Report revealed that number of underage births has fallen because of increased use of abortion in last ten years but Britain has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Europe.

In 2007 there were 41.9 conceptions for every 1,000 under-18 girls as compared to 40.9 the year previously and the first rise since 2002.

Exercise is better in the morning if you have a stressful job, as mental fatigue can affect physical performance, says a new study.

Researchers at Bangor University found that people who are mentally fatigued and exercise reach the point of physical exhaustion sooner than they do if they are mentally rested before exercising.

Also, they found that even though being exhausted after work doesn't actually affect the muscles, it does make it harder for people to exercise so vigorously.

Recent survey revealed that number of people getting weight loss surgery has increased by 40% from last year. Figures revealed that 2,724 cases of "bariatric surgery" including stomach stapling, gastric bypasses and sleeve gastrectomy were performed by NHS in 2007/08.  

The report by the NHS Information Centre also revealed that there has been 30% increase in overall hospital admissions for obesity from the previous year to 5,018.