Eating carrots and plums could make people look more healthy and attractive.

Researchers at St Andrews and Bristol universities examined the relationship between skin colour and their attractiveness, and revealed people with yellow skin were perceived as particularly healthy and attractive.

Ian Stephen, one of the scientists involved in the project, want to encourage people to eat more fruits and vegetables with pigments known as carotenoids, especially as it took just two months of increased consumption to produce visible results.

A blood test that is used for antibodies which is a protein produced by the immune system may soon be used to detect Alzheimer’s and other diseases including some forms of cancer.

Detecting the Alzheimer's via antibodies would be a simpler and less invasive method of diagnosing the disease.

Typically, in developing blood test for diseases, researchers searched for antigens that are a protein secreted from a virus, bacteria, from some cancerous cells or in neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s that set off an immune response. 

Hoards of kids could be left at the mercy of for swine flu as drugstores have been denying vaccinating under 18s.
 
Doctors have warned parents that the reopening of schools following the Christmas holidays this week could trigger a children's epidemic flu. 

So, parents should try to buy the jab privately for their children as soon as possible.

Flu has killed 39 victims in Britain since October including 11 under 15s.

The cost of caring for dementia patients would be the major subject for inquiry.

The All-party Parliamentary group (APPG) on Dementia will be set to launch an inquiry to how the funds could be spent more effectively on helping those with dementia.

It is estimated that the total cost of dementia care in the UK comes to £20 billion every year and is likely to rise to around £27billion by 2018.

A report suggested that NHS had saved nearly £80 million last year by enabling people with dementia to leave hospital a week earlier.

As the number of people with dementia rises, they still would be looking into how the money could be better spent in tackling the condition this year.

Baroness Sally Greengross, chairwomen of the APPG want to share ideas and practical examples so that the NHS, local authorities and others can deliver the best care at the right price.

Researchers from the Institute of Neurology, University College of London have found that by combining lumber puncture with MRI scan of brain, they can detect the early stages of dementia.