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Health Minister Nicola Roxon has just announced that 13 new drugs will be subsidized by the Government. Diabetes Australia and the AIDS Council of NSW and Alzheimer’s Australia along with other groups have launched a campaign to demand the Government to stop delaying their plans for drug subsidization.

Since then, the Government went through with their plans to list drugs for subsidized drugs. The new list of subsidized drugs will cost the government more than $200 million.

A recent study has shown that the mothers who smoke during pregnancy may increase their child’s risk of suffering from a heart attack or stroke later in their life.

A group of researchers from Australia conducted a study of children the age of eight whose mothers smoked while they were pregnant. The research showed that the children had HDL cholesterol levels of 1.3 mill moles per liter, compared to children whose mothers did not smoke had normal levels of 1.5 mill moles per liter.

The medical staff is apparently paid more than their colleagues overseas. The NHS in England is attempting to cut £20bn from their annual budget over the next four years. Their salaries make up two thirds of the budget.

The only way to revise salaries is to look at wages relevant to the average national income. Nurses in the UK are paid an average amount when compared to other countries in US and Australia. So it seems that the UK pays its GP more highly than any other OECD country and nearly twice as much as France.

The term ‘flash mob’ has taken a whole new meaning after a group of mothers who exposed their breast at the Trafford Centre in Manchester to promoted breastfeeding awareness. 

National Breastfeeding Awareness Week 2011 started on Sunday and will run till Saturday June 25. The NHS Infant Breastfeeding Services will be helping run the event. The weeklong event will promote soon to be mothers to breastfeed their children because of the benefits that are linked to this method of feeding.

RBI Deputy Governor, Shyamala Gopinath, who is said to be retiring, has expressed that the ‘Central Bank is keen on developing the corporate bond market’.

Gopinath was made the Deputy Governor of the RBI on the 21st of September 2004 for five years, as she ended her term, she was re-appointed for another term, which ends on the 20th of June 2011.

Bharti Airtel is said to probably get into its new levels of Rs 424-430 soon, as 3 leading mobile phone companies; Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and BSNL, have lost revenue market share in FY11.

The report which is revealed by Telcos, also recorded over 1% fall in their revenue market share, with BSNL displaying the maximum dip, coupled with a series of shocking results.