A cold and rainy day can cause potentially deadly changes in blood pressure and can even kill. A new research has shown that blood pressure in many people varies with temperature and a drop in mercury could be damaging.

Real Beauty Sketches advertisement launched by Dove in April became an instant internet sensation. It has now become the most watched advertisement in online history.

Rosebery residents voiced their concerns during a public meeting about lead contamination in part of their drinking water supply.

Authorities said the pipes are the reasons for causing the contamination and rejected the claims that sought local mines to source the lead in drinking water.

As per a study published in Lancet, intellect of those newborns in the UK can get hampered whose mother while pregnancy was suffering with mild iodine deficiency.

The researchers got these results by involving 1,000 families, which showed that the mothers having too little iodine while pregnancy have pupils whose IQ and reading scores were low.

Like any other development, coming of technological advancements has brought advantages and disadvantages with it. One of the advantages is of proliferation of pornography and its easier availability. It has become so pervasive that it can be considered as the main educator of sex among young kids.

MSPs have been told that the recommendations in two reviews into access to new medicines are not good enough to raise the number of drugs approved for use on the NHS.

Sir Harry Burns, Scotland's Chief Medical Officer, has written a letter to all of Scotland's NHS boards to prevent the risk of measles infection spreading through hospitals. He has urged health board chiefs to ensure that their staff is vaccinated against measles. He has asked to stay prepared for a likely outbreak of the potentially deadly disease.