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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Painless surgery for acidity and peptic ulcers
Those suffering from acidity and peptic ulcers now have the option of a painless surgical correction, thanks to the revolutionary technique of minimally invasive surgery of the upper
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On the pharmaceutical frontier, looking for keys to quality of life
Find a doctor these days and head down to the corner drugstore with a few prescriptions in hand, and you can walk out with a sack of goodies that promise to make life better. This is the new frontier
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The rise of bloodless surgery
Once an obscure speciality, bloodless medicine is becoming more common now because of advances in technology. Seventy-six hospitals in the United States now offer bloodless medicine, up from only a
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Encouraging cell suicide may help in cancer, transplants, autoimmune diseases
A Stanford research team has found a protein that shields the immune system's T cells from death even as they attack infected or diseased cells. Turning this protein off with drugs might remove that
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- Budgets ignore health care
The India Health Care Federation has suggested the need to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) of nearly $7 billion annually in the country to establish an efficient health care infrastructure.
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Total health programme for school students
An Australian organisation has prepared a total health programme for schools in Tamil Nadu, that claims to help students gain knowledge and develop living skills to overcome health and nutritional
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- Polio disaster in three doses
Faulty immunisation policies contributed to massive outbreaks of polio in the country during the 1980s, paralysing tens of thousands of children, a leading Indian infectious diseases expert has said.
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- Superbug discovered
A virulent new superbug has been discovered by British scientists which is resistant to all known antibiotics and could kill people with weak immune systems, a report in this week's New Scientist
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- Govt launches drive against thalassemia
The Delhi government has launched a programme to creat awareness about thalassemia and screen children and pregnant women as a preventive measure against the fatal disease.
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Nationalise us, says US tobacco chief
The head of the second biggest US cigarette company Steven Goldstone, chairman, RJR Nabisco stepped up the battle against looming anti-tobacco legislation by inviting the federal government to