The Body Mass Index is not an excellent way to find out if a person is obese or not, according to Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Harvard Associate Professor of Medicine and holds medical practice at the Mayo Clinic in the U.S.

Lopez-Jimenez made the claim at the National Obesity Forum in London

Two French savants and a German scientist are this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine awardees.

Frenchmen Luc Montagnier, the director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, from the Institut Pasteur were recognized Monday for their discovery of the fatal Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus, which had killed million of people. For their valuable scientific contribution, the two were awarded half of the $1.39 billion (800,000 pound) prize money

A new report reveals that health care in the United States doesn't do a very good job of reducing the severity of disease systems in people who have serious and chronic diseases.

Even hospitals that have specific programs that aim to treat and relieve the severity of a patient's symptoms, rather than treating the disease itself aren't doing a very good job. Palliative care is given to alleviate pain in patient's with serious and chronic diseases, usually given at the end of a patient's life. Counseling is also given

- A new study suggests that the AIDS virus has been around for 100 years.

Researchers published their findings in the journal Nature. They have found through genetic analysis that the virus likely originated in humans sometime between 1884 and 1924, with a more focused estimate at 1908

Three students at an eastern Pennsylvania high school are diagnosed with an outbreak of MRSA, a staph infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

It is still not clear where the students from Northampton Area High School picked up the infection, Superintendent Linda Firestone told media adding that she has sent a letter to parents Wednesday urging good hygiene practices to prevent spreading the infection