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• 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

  • 01/01/2029

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• - Novel method used at Batra hospital to treat heart patients

  Doctors at a Delhi hospital have claimed that they have successfully used a new method-percutaneous transluminal myocardial revascularisation (PTMR) - to treat heart patients who are not suited for

  • 23/02/1998

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• - Renewed hope for heart patients

  The human heart muscle, the myocardium, is nourished by blood supply from the coronary arteries. Narrowing or blocks of these coronary artieries causes myocardium which weakens its ability to pump

  • 21/02/1998

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
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• - With Hingis, tetanus project also gets focus

  World's top tennis player Martina Hingis is in the kingdom for twin purposes - one is trekking and the other is a visit to a health project in Nawalparasi funded by her. With the coming of the

  • 14/02/1998

  • • Health

• - Cancer drugs to become more effective, less toxic

  Drugs for treating cancer will be more effective and less toxic in future and molecular technology is propelling the development of a cancer vaccine,researchers said on Thursday. Scientists also told

  • 21/02/1998

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
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• - Ban encourages illegal trade in blood

  The Supreme Court ban on blood from professional donors has created a shortage of blood following the failure of the concerned agencies to arrange voluntary donations. As a result the shortfall is

  • 21/02/1998

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
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• - Vaccine-failure polio

  'million kids hit': An estimated one million children have developed "vaccine failure" polio in India during the eighties as a result of the Union Government adhering to the WHO norm that three doses

  • 21/02/1998

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
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• Flu sends 17,000 to their beds

  Officials with St. Petersburg's Influenza Institute say a flu epidemic sweeping the city has left 17,000 local residents bedridden. The institute's Oleg Kiselyov said Friday that the local outbreak

  • 21/02/1998

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• - Computers take pain from drug prescription

  Computers can control Intensive care Unit ventilators more successfully than doctors, an expert in computerised medicine has told the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A computer

  • 17/02/1998

  • Financial Times (London)
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• - Poison flow from aided tubewells

  For the past two decades, water from a million or more wells sunk into the alluvum of the Ganga delta by agencies such as UNICEF, the World Bank and Britain's Overseas Development Administration has

  • 21/02/1998

  • • Health

• Increased tobacco taxes proposed

  Speaking at a conference on the economics of tobacco control in Cape Town, on Thursday that an increase in tax on tobacco will have the dual effect of reducing cigarette consumption, while boosting

  • 21/02/1998

  • • Health