First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Health
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Hong Kong tries to cleanse its public health system
The Food Control Office at Man Kam To is Hong Kong's first line of defence against any pestilence brewing across the Chinese border. Each day, about 400 trucks come to the station's loading docks,
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Chance finding spurs a race for nerve drugs
Independent of one another, research teams at Johns Hopkins University and Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland recently made the surprising discovery that medicines originally developed to
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Canada confidence vote over hepatitis package
The Liberal government of Jean Chretien, Canada's prime minister, faces a confidence vote over a US$766m compensation package for an estimated 22,000 victims who contracted hepatitis C from tainted
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- No more guinea pigs for W contraceptives
Indian women will not be allowed to become testing fields for western contraceptives. They will no longer be used as mere "bodies" to try out untested and unapproved methods. The Union Minister for
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Tobacco memos depict assault on researchers
Determined to keep efforts about second hand smoke dangers from mushrooming, the tobacco industry mobilized a counter attack in the mid-1980s to systematically discredit any researcher claiming
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Tobacco
A threat to minorities health : In a report that afforded President Clinton the perfect opportunity to renew his call for comprehensive tobacco legislation, the surgeon general, David Stacher, has
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U.S. tobacco firm to aid in inquiry
Liggett & Myers Inc., smallest of the big five cigarette makers in the United States, agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's criminal investigation of the tobacco
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Mosquitoes invade city
Experts say mosquito control is an ongoing process and should not be discontinued. But this does not happen in India. An entomologist said, India being a tropical country, this process should always
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Japan's anti-smokers fire a lawsuit at Philip Morris
Akinori Ito, an anti-smoking activist, is angry. While American cigarette makers face tough restrictions at home, they are making a killing selling their deadly products in Asia, he says. So Mr. Ito
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Radiation testing on insane alleged
Norwegians deemed insane or mentally retarded were used in U.S. backed radiation experiments during the Cold War, a retired senior health official asserted. "People were used as research subjects to