The last time you could get a new Fiat in America was the time when Michael Jackson's Thriller music video played endlessly on MTV, cellphones were just launched, and Ronald Reagan railed at the Soviets while giving out jelly beans from the Oval Office.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has rejected everolimus (Afinitor), a drug which is used to treat advanced kidney cancer, for use on the NHS. This decision was made in spite of a proposed risk-sharing scheme between the NHS and the drug's manufacturer, Novartis.

The final guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has emphasized on suggesting Roche's Herceptin as a treatment for gastric cancer on the National Health Service in the England and Wales.

Raising concern over maternal mortality, NHS watchdog NICE has stressed upon the need for setting up antenatal clinics in schools so as to raise awareness about the vulnerability of pregnant women to stillbirth or even own death.

According to newly published guidance patients who suffer from a rare form of stomach cancer should not be prescribed Sutent, also known as sunitinib, on the NHS.