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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- Diabetics to try chemical pancreas
British scientists are developing an artificial pancreas that could save diabetics from the pain of daily injections. The device. which researchers hope could be implanted in the Patient's abdomen,
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- Spare the rabbit bleed the crab
Indian rabbits could, at last heave a sigh of relief if the Bangalore-based pharmaceutical equipment distributor's grand plans to domestically produce a reagent for testing fever-causing pyrogens
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- 'Radiation for safe blood transfusion'
Blood transfusions can be hazardous, even after matching the blood group and tests for various viral infections are performed, according to Prof Mammen Chandy of the CMC hopsital in Vellore. Speaking
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- No cure for ravages on medicinal plants
Extensively debated by representatives (roughly 300 delegates) of NGOs and grassroots workers, policy-makers from UNESCO, FAO, and the UN, and participants from the International Convention of
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- WHO ignores desi research
World Health Organisation, in its World Health Report 1997- Conquering suffering, entiching humanity has surprisingly made no mention of the pace-setting research results in chemo-preventives in
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Radon, especially in combination with smoking, contributes to lung cancer deaths
Smokers who are exposed to radon appear to be at even greater risk for lung cancer, because the effects of smoking and radon are more powerful when the two factors are combined, says a new report by
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- India's first hepatitis-B vaccine marketed
The country's first genetically engineered hepatitis-B vaccine produced and developed by Hyderabad-based Shantha biotecnics was commercially marketed on
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Future immunity for tobacco groups rejected
An independent congressional advisory panel and leading public health groups yesterday said they would not support any legislative settlement with tobacco companies that grants the industry immunity
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Sunscreens may contribute to skin cancer rise
Sunscreens do not prevent every type of skin cancer and they may even take some blame for the rising incidence of melanoma, a particularly serious form of skin cancer, the American Association for
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- Bidis sold to minors in New York
Undercover agents have stumbled across a number of stores, in Manhattan selling bidis-handrolled Indian cigarettes - in a drive by the city administration against those selling tobacco products to