Rajasthan Government has become the first State government to implement the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations from 1st September 2006. In a recent decision the Rajasthan Government has increased maternity leave from 135 days to 180 days and this facility may be availed by employees who are already on maternity leave.

The Thunder Bay District Health Unit on Wednesday announced that the invasive Group A streptococcus strain known as emm-59 has infected 75 people in Thunder Bay and killed 10 of them. Health authorities came to know about it in late February. But the general public was made aware about it on Wednesday. Dr. Dave Williams, Ontario's chief medical officer of health said that the strain, which first appeared on the British Columbia coast in 2006, could move into Quebec and the Maritimes in the coming fall and winter months.

Air pollution is dangerous for human beings. Various studies have shown that air pollution can trigger diseases like asthma and other lung related aliments. Excess inhalation of polluted air could be deadly for the heart patients as well as infants. Government as well as social work associations have been working hard to control increasing air pollution. 

A recent research showed that people can be taught fearlessness. Researchers believe that it may be possible to learn not to be afraid, a condition he calls "learned safety". In the study a tone associated to safety by mice, had same effect on the animals as antidepressants during stressful conditions. This study was led Dr Eric Kandel of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Columbia University in New York.

The new study led by Dr. Linda Ganzini, from Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center showed a loophole into the Death with Dignity Act was passed by the state in 1997. Researchers say that the Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law may not adequately protect the one in four terminally ill patients with clinical depression.

Researchers studied the data collected from 58 state residents with a terminal illness, usually cancer or ALS. These study subjects had requested assistance in dying, either directly from a physician or through an advocacy organization. 

A recent at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research has given a new insight about the development of breast cancer. Researchers have made two crucial findings related to functions for Notch in breast tissue. 

Dr Toula Bouras and colleagues found that the mechanism by which inappropriate expression of the Notch pathway may contribute to breast cancer. 

Researchers found that the Notch helps in restricting breast stem cell number hence when Notch is 'switched off ', there is a resultant expansion in breast stem cells.