According to a government advisor and leading surgeon, NHS funds should not be spent on palliative care for the terminally ill but on surgery for obese patients, this is what a surgeon has suggested.

Andrew de Beaux questioned that was it worth spending on people who are suffering from cancer and might have very little benefit in the last days of their life.

Britain had a team of scientists sewing up kittens' eyes for an experiment and this had had animal lovers across Britain get outraged.

Taxpayers funded a test in which over 30 kittens were used to figure out when there is sensory deprivation, how does the brain respond.

A specialist nurse from the Airedale hospital is requesting people to come forward and help mankind by signing up to the national organ donor register.

Seeing the shortage of organs and people waiting for a transplant, Rachel Wiseman will have an information stand at the hospital to make people aware about how important is organ donation.

It was found out that in the past three years; more than £70m has been paid out, following cases of clinical negligence cases that have led to stillbirths and babies being born with disabilities.

It was found through a Freedom of Information request that from January 2009 to June 2011, there were 30 cases closed by NHS Health Scotland.

According to Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw, front line services will be affected by such costs.

According to a Scottish government spokeswoman, all negligence claims have taught vital lessons.

Following wet summers, homes in England are now facing a problem of rodents with plagues of rats descending on homes after being flushed them out of sewers.

There has been about 25 per cent increase in calls made o handle the rat menace and this has happened due to months of rain and present figures have stated that about 80 million rats have emerged in the UK from drains looking for food.

Record rainfall has also seen snails and slugs that are harming crops. Apart from this there are mosquitoes that are making way into the country as they breed in damp conditions.

As compared to Gilead’s drug Atripla that is leading the market, a drug from GlaxoSmithKline and its Japanese partner Shionogi has proved better. It is once daily drug and it went through a late-stage clinical trial.

People will soon be able to launch their new projects through popular crowd-source funding platform Kickstarter.

Using micro-blogging site Twitter, the crowd funding website stated, "People in the UK will be able to launch projects on Kickstarter starting this autumn."

The crowd funding website also assured that it would reveal more detail in the coming weeks.

In an incident which underscores the widespread use of mobile-friendly social media sites in the tech-savvy Ireland, popular microblogging site Twitter recently helped an Irishwoman find her Jack Russell terrier - Patch - who accidentally boarded a train to Dublin!

It was on Wednesday night that Patch went missing from rural Kilcock, County Kildare - which is 30 kilometers west of Dublin -, leaving his owner, Deirdre Anglin clueless about his whereabouts.