A study has stated that websites like YouTube might be used by the tobacco industry to get around a ban on advertising cigarettes.

A number of pre-tobacco videos were found by researchers in New Zealand after studying a video-sharing site. This was indirect marketing by these companies.

New figures have revealed that in Wales there has been a 67 per cent rise in drugs-related deaths.

There were about 61 such deaths in Wales in 2006 according to statistics from the International Centre for Drugs Policy but the figure had reached to 102 in 2009.

A new survey has found that high street salads might not be as healthy as they look as they contain salt more than a Big Mac would contain.

According to the Consensus Action on Salt (Cash) research, these salads exceed the recommended salt intake often.

British doctors have stated that people will be able to grow their own livers within five years if they were waiting for a transplant.

Skin from patients' arms was turned by Cambridge University researchers into liver cells. They said that full-sized livers could be made using this technique that would be just apt for the patient.

In Britain, bowel disorder is suffered by about 120,000 people. In this kind of disorder, intestines can become painfully inflamed and this leads to vomiting, diarrhoea and weight loss.

According to the latest sexual statistics, in Britain more and more people are getting sexually transmitted diseases.

There has been a significant rise in the number of people who get these infections, figures released by the Health Protection Agency show. And the rise is so big that last year there were nearly half a million new cases.

Latest figures have stated that in England the complaints about NHS hospitals and community health services are at a record high.

The biggest annual rise has seen by the sector in complaints since records began 12 years ago.