Swansea measles outbreak has raised a lot of concern. Public Health Wales has announced that more than 60,000 measles vaccinations have been provided, which is expected to bring a decline in the length as well as severity of the outbreak.

Sir David Nicholson, Head of NHS for the past six years, will step down from his post in 2014. The NHS, which has already been passing through quite a rough phase, has reached at a point where it needs to choose between current piecemeal reforms and more profound change.

Severe itching, including eczema, affects approximately six million Britons.  A hope to find a cure for the same has arisen through a research carried out by U. S. government's health research division.

SAP, a German software company, has planned for hiring people with autism. The company will be recruiting people with autism for positions like data quality assurance specialists, software testers and programmers.

As per a study published in the Nature journal, it has been found that approximately 200 different types of fungi lives on human feet. Though fungi reside on every part of human body, its favorite place is feet.

According to a breakthrough revelation, children with married parents have reduced chances of getting obese. The research, which was carried out by a group of researchers from Rice University in Houston and the University of Houston, has performed comparative analysis.

According to a study published by Breast Cancer Research, it has been revealed that new hormones have been identified in the body, which is able to bring a decline in breast cancer.

The world was shaken last year when they read the incident that has taken place in Miami, Florida, on May 26th, 2012. A man, Rudy Eugene, attacked a homeless man at the MacArthur Causeway in Miami.

Biosecurity Queensland has said the country may have to adopt whatever protocol Queensland devises to tackle Australian bat lyssavirus outbreaks in horses. According to reports, two horses are believed to have contacted the bat-borne virus on a property near Allora in Southern Queensland. The horses had to be put down earlier this month.

As per information provided by SA Health, it has been revealed the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) has improved its hygiene practices.  There was a time when golden staph infection rate was quite high in the hospital, but it has made a lot of improvements.