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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- Vaccine to ward off killer HIB
Doctors say the best answer to a killer bacteria which stalks Indian children is the addition of HIB vaccine to existing vaccine schedules. The haemophilus influenza type-B (HIB) is an organism which
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- Pvt. hospitals cry foul over Jeevan Dayi scheme
Private hospitals have locked horns with the state government by challenging the legal validity of the government's Jeevan Dayi scheme which provides free surgical treatment to poor patients.
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Tobacco Bill easily gets Senate Panel's approval
A key Senate committee has given a strong bipartisan vote of approval to legislation that would raise the price of cigarettes in the United States and stiffen controls on tobacco. No other measure
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- Superior blood bag technology
Shriram Institute for Industrial Research has released the technology for superior blood bag to M/s G. Surgiwear on a non-exclusive basis. These blood bags are based on laminated sheets and thus will
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Panel clears a sweetner for use in U.S.
Dieters got some sweet news as the U.S. government approved the first new artificial sweetner in 10 years. The sweetner, called sucralose, is made by a unit of Johnson & Johnson and could become a
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- Indians to become guinea pigs for testing 'banana vaccine'
India will become a testing ground for anti hepatitis-B vaccine which is yet to get the US FDA approval for human testing. Cornell University , US, is believed to have chosen India as the test site
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- Smoking more likely to kill women
Women smokers have a 50 per cent higher risk of dying from a heart attack than men who smoke, say researchers. A likely reason is that tobacco smoke has an adverse effect on the female hormone
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Redux diet drug receives a boost in new study
Six months after American Home Products Corp. recalled Redux over safety concerns, the company is releasing new data suggesting that the diet pill is far less dangerous than previously thought. Last
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EU puts off controversial livestock ban to January
European Union nations postponed a ban on imports of potentially infectious livestock parts until January 1,1999. However, farm ministers asked the European Commission to suggest changes to a
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Smoking rates jump for black teenagers
For years, public health officials have touted low smoking rates among black teenagers as a hopeful sign that at least some young people were shunning cigarettes. But that optimism has fallen sharply