Recent study by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), a British government agency showed that exposure to energy saving light bulbs may cause reddening of the skin and hence skin damage due to ultra violet light emissions. The study was conducted to check the level of harm caused by the duration of exposure to these eco bulbs. The present study was done after groups representing people who suffer from light sensitivity issues approached the agency. The HPA tested 20 encapsulated and 53 unencapsulated bulbs for UV exposure.

The World Mental Health Day was celebrated in Manipur. The World Mental Health Day observance at RIMS Jubilee Hall and the Kangla hall was attended by various distinguished persons. A week long observation of the day was also organized, starting from October 4. The present event also marked the concluding ceremony of the week long observation of the day. A discussion was also held on topics related to mental health of the people.

After a strict ban on smoking in public places, Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss is now targeting the alcohol consumption in the country.

Mr. Ramadoss stated that a national plan for alcohol control will soon be launched in the nation. 

He said discussion with scientists and experts have already begun, and it will be ready within a month or two. 

Mr. Ramadoss has decided that as Health Minister, he has to chalk out plans, which will prohibit or permit acts in line with his sanitization agenda for India.

A new research done by researchers from Amsterdam University and Florida State University discovered that sugar can make a person sweeter. 

This interesting discovery suggests that sweet drinks give people a sugar rush, which supplies the brain with the fuel required to suppress frank opinions.

The researchers said, “The findings suggest a link between glucose levels and the expression of prejudice and the use of stereotypes.”

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.