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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- New heart surgery technique
A new surgery for heart patients, who cannot be treated by bypass surgery or angioplasty, has been performed for the first time in India by the Batra Hospital. The technique is percutaneous
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- Less-toxic, biologically-based cancer medication
Drugs for treating cancer will be more effective and less toxic in future and molecular technology is propelling the development of a cancer vaccine, according to researchers. Scientists at a recent
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- U.N. study finds pop music-drug abuse link
The United Nations is blaming the multi-billion dollar western pop music industry for the dramatic rise in drug abuse world-wide. "The most worrisome development is a culture of drug-friendliness
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- Predicting new drugs effectiveness
Four years ago, Dr. Daniel Cohen dazzled the scientific world when his Paris lab roughed out the first comphrehensive map of all human chormosomes. This year, he will complete a far more detailed
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- Laser probes aid eye surgery
A Technique originally devised to test aeroplane turbines are being adapted to help surgeons perform a particularly intricate type of eye operation. The technique was developed by the University of
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- 'Bird flu' fears are revived
Doctors in Hong Kong have found antibodies to the "bird flu" virus in health workers, renewing fears that the virus that killed six persons in Hong Kong could be spread by human
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- Can gluttony cause cancer?
Children are the most susceptible to dietary vices - as the focus on them by advertising and fast food companies testfies. But overeating during childhood does not just produce obesity. It may
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- Malaria hope
A breakthrough in the treatment of Malaria may be near as scientists at Johns Hopkins University are developing an anti-malarial treatment based on artemisinin, a derivative of a Chinese herbal
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- Heart drug can create blood vessel within days
Doctors in Germany have developed an experimental drug that creates the blood supply to the human heart within days after injection, according to a report in an American medical journal. It is the
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- Brussels may toughen rules on BSE
European Union scientists appeared to back a UK ban on the sale of T-bone steak in a move which could herald a toughening of Brussels rules to prevent the spread of BSE, or mad cow disease. After a