Recent Scottish Government's 2009/2010 budget has allocated £8.64bn to each health board.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said that it means health boards will have the resources they need to progress their plans and offer a first class service to patients across Scotland."

She added: "With nearly £400m for NHS building projects across Scotland, it also shows that this government will do everything within its power to support sectors of our economy, like construction, that are suffering most during the recession."

Hanoi - A man suspected of being infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus is in critical condition at a hospital in northern Vietnam, health officials said Saturday.

Ly Tai Mui, 23, has been hospitalized since February 3 at Quang Ninh general hospital, 150 kilometres west of Hanoi. Mui, a member of the Dao ethnic minority, had eaten the meat of a sick chicken in his village in rural Quang Ninh province some days before falling ill.

Bangkok - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has certified the quality of the Indian-made generic heart drug Clopidogrel which is 23 times cheaper than its patented alternative Plavix, media reports said Saturday.

"We confirm that every lot of Clopidogrel imported from India has been tested, with its quality and efficacy approved by the Department of Medical Science before being distributed to hospitals," FDA deputy secretary Veerawan Tangkaew said in an interview with The Nation newspaper.

Scientists have developed a male contraceptive injection. Soon the worldwide clinical trails to test the effectiveness of the injection as the only form of contraception will be conducted. Studies have shown that male contraceptive works in similar way as female contraceptive.

Lead researcher Professor Rob McLachlan says that the treatment keeps men's testosterone levels normal while the progestin fools the brain into not producing hormones needed to stimulate sperm production.

Recent research revealed that stress is deadly for melanoma patients as it can accelerate the growth rate of the disease. Eric V. Yang, a research scientist at the Institute for Ohio Behavioural Medicine Research (IBMR) and Ronald Glaser, director of IBMR and a professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics studied the effect o stress on cancer cells.

Recent research revealed that environmental factors such as divorce, use of anti depressants can make one looked aged. Hence wrinkles are not only result of age but also result of kind of environment one lives in. Happy and satisfied life could be the key to look younger forever.

Bahaman Guyuron of University Hospitals Case Medical Center and collogues studied data collected from 186 pairs of identical twins as these pairs are genetically programmed to age exactly the same.