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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Eye disease detection device
Scientists have developed a unique low-cost instrument to detect various eye diseases that would help save huge amounts of foreign exchange. It was joint project of National Physical Laboratory
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- Of alcohol and breast cancer
Women with two to five alcoholic drinks every day have a 41 per cent higher risk for breast cancer than women who drink no alcohol, says the Journal of the American Medical Association. And women who
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Chinese drug effective against AIDS
Chinese scientists plan to conduct clinical research to determine the effectiveness of a new herbal compound for treating AIDS .
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- EU loses hormones case
World Trade Organisation members yesterday formally endorsed WTO panel and appeals body rulings against the European Union's ban on hormone-treated beef which was found not to be based on scientific
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- Optimism over neuropathic pain treatment
Researchers are on the point of developing drugs to help people whose lives are blighted by "neuropathic" pain, the intense, long-lasting and almost untreatable pain caused by damaged nerves, the
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-59 pc children malnourished
Over 59 pc children of the country aging 6 to 71 months are malnourished in terms of deficient height- for- age or weight- for- age or both.This was unveiled in the survey report "The child nutrition
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-Health services and mass communication
Phase five of the country's Health and Population Programme is due to begin from July of the current year.The World Bank and other donors are already committed to give about one billion US dollars .
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- Bloods clots can be dissolved
Doctors in New Delhi are now dissolving blood clots which block cardiac arteries with a new painless non-invasive ultra-sound technique. The new procedure called Acolysis was performed for the first
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- Colourful approach to treating cancer
A herbal extract which looks red when illuminated with blue light has emerged as the basis of a possible technique for detecting and treating cancer. Researchers based in Vancouver and Kiev are
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- Chiroscience signs with US group to develop cancer drugs
Chiroscience, one of the UK's largest biotechnology companies, has signed a deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb to help develop and sell cancer drugs. The US pharmaceuticals company is paying fees to gain