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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- A germ warehouse prospers in Maryland
They keep anthrax bacteria in the basement of a faded red brick building, not far from the yellow fever virus, the botulism bacteria and some of the hundreds of organisms that cause the common cold.
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- Clinton backs bipartisan bill to introduce tobacco curbs
President Bill Clinton threw his personal authority behind an effort to persuade Congress to pass a bill on the tobacco industry in the 68 days of legislative time remaining this year. Mr. Clinton
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- Row flares over 'cancer cure'
The Italian government is locked in a furious battle with the country's judiciary over whether an untested "cancer cure" should be provided free of charge by the national health service. If the
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- Pakistan is 7th most populous in world
Pakistan is today the seventh most populous country in the world, with its current population estimated at 140 million. This information was given by the federal government on Thursday to the
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- Societies to stabilise population set up
The Andhra Pradesh state government has costituted district-level Societies for population stabilisation (SPS), according to West Godavari district medical and health officer Dr G Swatantra
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- Gene causing cataract found
Scientists at the Centre for Genetic Diorders, Guru Nanak University, have succeeded in localising a new gene on chromosome 22, which causes cerulean cataract with sutural opacities. The Centre had
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- New body to implement AIDS programmes
The formulation and implementation of AIDS control programmes in West Bengal from the ensuing financial year will be conducted by a new, registered and autonomous body in a bid to expedite efforts
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- For Delhi's bus drivers health is not wealth
For the men behind the wheels of buses in the Capital, life is not exactly a roller coaster drive. The extracts from a recent survey conducted by Iqbal Maliq on the health of the bus drivers of the
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- Holi colours can be a toxic eyeful
Every year, doctors come across hundreds of cases wherein spurious gulal causes health problems involving the eyes, skin and respiratory system - toxicity and allergy being the most common of them.
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- Viral fever is back in the air
Viral fever is staging a comeback in the Capital. Doctors at various hospitals say that there has been a renewed spurt in the cases of this infectious disease in the past few days. Around a month