A study has showed that Britain lags behind other western countries when it comes to treatment of cancer. The country has one of the worst records over access to the latest cancer-fighting drugs and researchers have ranked it lowest for its "slow and low" uptake of drugs.

After analyzing sales of 67 treatments in 25 countries, the Swedish report said that other countries that make it to the list of worst cancer treatment include New Zealand, Poland, the Czech Republic and South Africa

The international United Nation's AIDS (UNAIDS) program has partnered with Haiti to fight the AIDS epidemic through its workplaces, reports a U.N. spokesperson for the health agency affairs.

According to the latest statistics, four to five percent of the population in Haiti is infected with HIV and males are only expected to live to 52 years of age

A study has found that spreading honey on a diabetic ulcer could prevent the need to amputate an infected foot. The acidic property of honey helps kill the bacteria and also avoids the complication of bacterial resistance found with standard antibiotics.

The honey therapy is reportedly being launched by Jennifer Eddy, a professor from the University of Wisconsin. So far she has helped about half a dozen of her diabetic patients avoid amputations. The therapy that involves squeezing a thick layer of honey onto the wound after dead skin and bacteria have been removed

A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that there has been a sudden increase in the proportion of extremely obese Americans, whose body mass index is 40 or more.

Recent data by CDC says that extremely overweight people have increased by 50 percent from 2000 to 2005, twice as fast as the increase in moderate obesity. Also during the same time, the proportion of overweight people (BMI of 30 or more) increased by 24 percent, and the proportion of those with a BMI of 50 or more increased by 75 percent

Swedish researchers have found that smokers take on average nearly eight days more sick leave per year than their non-smoking colleagues, thus making them perform worse at work.

The study, which is published on Thursday in the British health journal Tobacco Control, tracked data related to absence for sickness among more than 14,000 workers between 1988 and 1991