The implementation of various measures which were announced by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik six months ago, have not been implemented till now and thus has agitated doctors working in public hospitals in Orissa. That is why; approximately 3000 doctors have decided to protest against the delay of the implementation of rules by following a mass resignation on August 27.

Companies are finding new ways to offer better services to their customers. Boots healthcare has come up with the idea of drive-through pharmacy. In drive-through pharmacy people will be given prescription on one window and will collect prescribed medicines from other window. The first drive through pharmacy in UK was opened on Wednesday.  

A former McDonald's restaurant in Colchester was converted into drive through pharmacy. Officials from Boots healthcare are convinced that this store will offer comfort to mothers who don’t want to leave kids alone in car and elderly. People will get medicine quickly from this store as compared to other normal stores.

The US researchers have developed a new method of scanning joints that could disclose the warning signals of the aching condition.

According to researchers, the MRI scan mainly searches low levels of the chemical glycosaminogycan that assits cartilage in joints hold the water, which makes it hard and stretchy.

Actually, the deteriorating and collapse of the cartilage that cushions the moving parts of joints, plays a crucial role in the development of osteoarthritis, which is common in the over-40s age group throughout the world.

London, Aug 23 : A group of British medical experts have carried out the world''s first operation using a robot to repair a condition that kills 7,000 people a year.

The condition, called an abdominal aortic aneurysm, involves a key artery that pumps blood around the body from the heart weakening and swelling and can go undetected until the section bursts, which is often fatal.

The team at St Mary''s Hospital in central London, have carried out the first operation to repair an aneurysm using a 400,000 pounds worth robot.

Hong Kong - A 7-year-old girl has become the third child to die of a mystery illness in Hong Kong, government officials said Friday.

The girl, who was admitted to hospital on August 8 with encephalitis or brain inflammation, died Friday.

Two other girls, aged 9 and 3, died last week with myocarditis, inflammation of the heart, and blood poisoning.

A fourth child, a 3-year-old boy, is also in a critical condition with sepsis and encephalopathy - blood poisoning and brain abnormalities.

Health officials are already conducting an investigation into the cause of the illnesses, however it is not yet known whether one single virus or different viruses are responsible.