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Technology major Apple has revealed its plan to manage its forthcoming HomeKit-compatible accessories. The company announced that it will be managed by a new iOS app ‘Home’. Apple’s announcement has come before its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

According to the company, currently it has been conducting tests to check its iOS 9, which includes the Apple’s new app. The app will allow a user to set up smart home products like wireless door locks with iPhones and Wi-Fi garage door openers, as per reports.

On Wednesday, California’s top doctors group said it would stay neutral on a controversial bill that allows physician-assisted suicide.

The bill, under consideration by state legislature, is called the ‘End of Life Option’ Act. It is in favor of terminal patients’ requirement to end their own lives though medical assistance.

It would allow the patients who are left with six months to live and have been considered mentally competent to obtain prescriptions to end their lives.

It has been inspired from Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old California woman who moved to Oregon to end her own life under that state’s ‘Death with Dignity’ law. She was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and moved to Oregon to take advantage of that state’s law. She died in November.

Prosthetics manufacturer Ossur recently announced an implantable technology, called Implanted MyoElectric Sensor (IMES), which allows users to control a mechanical limb mentally. The company announced the innovative technology during a press conference in Copenhagen

The technology will make it possible for users to move the company's motorized Proprio Foot just like they are doing it in reality. Generally, there is an annoying lag between intention and action, when it comes to an existing analog (or even powered) prosthesis. This is because the user needs to physically contract a muscle in order to activate it.

A legal action from activists against the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences on Wednesday is meant to not allow the company to bolster its coffer through unjustified patents for a hepatitis C medication that are believed to significantly increase the cost of the treatment for millions of patients worldwide.

Patent challenges against Gilead were announced by the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK), a legal advocacy group, in Argentina, Brazil, Russia and Ukraine. This is not the first time when a lawsuit has been filed against the company, as similar filings have already been made in India, Egypt and the European Union.

Michigan state officials revealed that there were three cases of canine flu in the state. According to the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Macomb County in the state has one case of the H3N2 canine influenza, while two cases have been reported in Kent County.

According to health experts, the canine flu virus can cause fever and runny nose. Last month, WWJ stated in the Chicago area, more than 1,000 dogs developed the dog flu. Now, as per reports, the virus has been reported in other states of the country as well.

A new study has suggested that depressed people could be at higher risk to develop Parkinson’s disease than the people who are not with depression. The study has been published online on Wednesday in Neurology.

According to researchers of the study, they analyzed that data of over 560,000 Swedish people and discovered that the depressed people developed the progressive disorder of the nervous system at a rate about three times higher than the people who were not depressed. The study suggested that the risks of developing Parkinson’s increase when depression is severe.