A report released in ‘The Lancet’ revealed that intake of calcium supplements in addition to vitamin D, radically lessens the risk of breaking a bone in people over 50.

Ranbaxy promoted healthcare Company, Fortis Healthcare plans to set up a medicity in Gurgaon, and another 28 hospitals by 2010. The group will invest Rs 1,800 crore on the project.

US scientists state that a vaccine designed to fight a protein culpably involved in Alzheimer's disease has proven efficient in mice.

A team of researchers at the New York University Medical Centre noted abnormal tau protein collects into damaging dishevels in the memory centre of the brains of patients suffering with Alzheimer’s disease.

Australian research workers have discovered that fatty diets damage eggs in the female internal reproductive organ (ovary) and forbids them from turning healthy fertilized eggs, a finding answers the problem why obese women are often infertile.

An observational stem cell treatment that has proved successful in rats could bring about an off-the-shelf heart repair treatment for heart failure patients.

Researchers have used human embryonic stem cells to regrow the heart muscles of rats that had survived lab-induced heart failures. The injected cells resulted to recovery of the heart's activity and stimulated the growth of new blood vessels.

A deadly bird flu outbreak has been reported this Saturday in a southern German poultry farm. Many ducks were culled to prevent of the spreading of the virus. There were around 160,000 birds in the farm and the health authorities have suggested killing all of them. The farm has been sealed off as the killing of birds continues.