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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Contamination of IV fluid
Nearly a year after the Assistant drug Controller of India cautioned hospitals about possible contamination of intravenous fluids, a city hospital has reported visible contamination of the IV fluid
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Bugs and superbugs
According to research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Johanna Bjorkman, Diarmaid Hughes and Dan Andersson, biologists at Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute
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-Dabur Research relief for stress, arthritis
After Sunova, spirulina, hailed as the 'food of the future', Dabur Research Foundation has developed Sunova Rejuva and Nopane and Memovita for relief from stress, arthritis and memory enhancement
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US doctors under fire over cancer claims
American scientists who announced this week that they believe the drug tamoxifen can prevent breast cancer have been attacked as incompetent by their British counterparts. British doctors have said
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- Are child cancers in Iraq linked to US weapon?
Children in Iraq are more susceptible to cancers today than they were before the Gulf War. About this there is no doubt. Since 1990 there has been a definite increase in the incidence of cancers such
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- Ayurveda may lose out to its videshi cousins
High on an overdose of swadeshi potion it may be , the BJP -led government seems to be happily unaware of what the department of Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy under the union health and
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-Vitamin B a day, keeps the gynaecologist away
Any woman who might become pregnant should either eat specially fortified foods or take a vitamin supplement of folic acid every day to protect against birth defects, a panel of experts said on
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- India ill-equipped to fight AIDS menace
The Hollywood star Mr. Richard Gere today lamented the widespread ignorance regarding AIDS in India and the dearth of basic infrastructure to alleviate suffering of the growing number of people
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- 2 World Bank health projects axed
After two years of planning, preparations, appraisals and clearances, two major World Bank-funded projects for modernisation and expansion of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine and the
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- 27,000 truck drivers affected by AIDS
Over 27,000 drivers from the nearly 30,000 surveyed on the Ahmedabad -Mumbai national highway No. 8 suffer from HIV(human immuno defeciency virus) or AIDS (acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome). The