As per recent news, women taking tamoxifen and three similar drugs reduce the chances of suffering from breast cancer quite significantly. The study was based on assessment of over 83,000 women who took the pills.

Patients suffering from ruthless heart failures are going to be cured with the gene therapy for the first time in the country of Britain.

The former clinical trials of the therapy suggest that the treatment could overturn damaging alterations into the cardiac cells. This will further result in weakening of the muscles and trim down the capability of the heart to pump blood.

As suggested by authorities, people aging over the age of 70 years are to be provided with the routine shingles vaccination. The step is being taken to avoid thousands of cases arising of the same, every year.

Sources reported that the popular house that was built by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was put on sale. As per the Land Registry, the house is possessed by the Hibernian province of the Congregation of La Sainte Union Des Sacre Couer based in Bath. However, it was part of the convent for a long while. An amount of £1.5 million was guided for the sale of the house.

Recent news talked about recent developments from the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Switzerland. It has talked about antimatter, which is believed to be close enough to matter as they share almost same mass.

Nearly 24,000 swimmers dived, jumped and belly fluffed into more than 600 pools to participate in Swimathon 2013 over the weekend. The event was the world's biggest fundraising swim.

Experts have warned that austerity programmes are causing a public health disaster. They said political decisions to cope with recession have contributed to the death toll. They added that the outcome between Iceland and Greece suggests that sufferings and miseries are not inevitable.

Sources reported about enforcing a ban on exhibiting cigarettes and other tobacco items in large shops in Scotland. Public Health Minister Michael Matheson said the initiatives will be helpful in preventing the youth from getting indulged in the habit of smoking.

As per a report issued by MS Society, only 40% of the people in the UK who are eligible for the drugs that are used to battle multiple sclerosis are actually consuming them.

Excess of everything is bad is the underline of the study carried out by a group of researchers from the University of Warwick. It has been revealed that children, who have either overprotective parents or have harsh parents, become subject of bully.