Although it has confirmed having an "informal meeting" with British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, Camden Primary Care Trust has denied that Sir Richard's company planned to launch a private bid to run a new polyclinic in the borough.

According to a Gulf Times report, Virgin Healthcare has shown interest working with GPs to help develop more integrated services for patients

A vaccine aimed at reducing brain plaque didn't help cure Alzheimer's disease, researchers have found. The results of the five-year study disappointed scientists who believed that cutting down plaque levels in the brain would help reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

The new research, led by Clive Holmes of Moorgreen Hospital in Southampton, looked at 80 patients with mild to moderate dementia. Researchers used amyloid-beta peptide on patients' brains to clear the plaque but results indicated that it didn't help patients live longer or slow the disease's progression

A 23-year-old man from New Delhi who was admitted to an Indian hospital after a five-feet-long iron rod went through his chest has survived the accident.

Calling it the "rarest of the rare surgeries," doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) saved the life of a young executive, Supratim Dutta, whose chest, lungs, stomach and liver were pierced by an iron bar

The E. coli outbreak that prompted Nebraska Beef Ltd.'s recall of 5.3 million pounds of beef in Michigan and Ohio has now spread to three other states.

At least one new case of possible E. coli has been reported in New York, Kentucky and Indiana according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

World-renowned heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey died of natural causes late Friday, according to the DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center at Methodist Hospital in Houston. He was 99.

In a career spanning more than 70 years ago, DeBakey performed more than 60,000 heart surgeries. His patients include late American presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, the last Shah of Iran and King Hussein of Jordan