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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- Osho Khanna horrifies Gere
Hollywood superstar Richard Gere led a chorus of protests against a suggestion by his Hindi cinema counterpart Vinod Khanna that AIDS victims should be detected in mandatory tests and given identity
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- Gene defect rare for breast cancer
Gene defects that have been linked to breast cancer are rarer than previously thought, and wide spread screening of women for the flaws would not be worthwhile, two US studies
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- Dengue vaccine developed
Thai scientists have developed the world's first successful dengue fever vaccine after 10 years of research with assistance from the World Health Organisation (WHO) , a senior official has
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- Australia to check student visas
Visas issued to thousands of foreign students are bging checked as a result of a tuberculosis scare after an Indian died in Queensland, the Immigration Minister said today.
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- VHS to launch AIDS control project for CSWs
The Voluntary Health Services (VHS), Chennai, has planned to launch six STD/HIV/AIDS control and intervention projects among the commercial sex workers at various places in the State at an estimated
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- New engineered protein helps heart patients
Medical researchers in the U.S. said they successfully used a genetically engineered protein developed by Genentech Inc. to help heart patients grow blood vessels around potentially lethal blockages
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Is time passing faster? The answer is in your body clock
It sometimes seems that with each passing year, the days and nights zip by more quickly. If you ever had this feeling, you are not imagining it. Studies of human time perception show that age related
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TB, the Asian serial killer
Seven Asian nations have been named among 16 countries that are not doing enough to help halt the global spread of tuberculosis. A World Health Organization (WHO) report says the seven countries are
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- El Nino's allergies
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, a warm, wet winter promises bumper crops of pollen. Thanks to an extremely mild winter, trees across much of the U.S. - including maple, alder, cotton wood and oak -
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- Brussels set for climbdown over BSE
The European Commission prepared for a climbdown over BSE, by signalling it was close to abadoning its fight for an early ban on potentially infectious animal parts. The European Union's executive