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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- NZ population goes up to 3.78 million
The population of New Zealand rose by one per cent in 1997 to an estimated 3.78 million, Statistics New Zealand said on
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- Serial killer at large
While new infections with HIV, continues to fall in neighbouring Uganda, the figures in Kenya just keep mounting up. The government estimates that around 8% of the country's adult population has HIV.
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- How AIDS began
In 1959 a man living in Congo gave a blood sample to some American doctors who were studying human genetics. When they had finished with it, instead of dropping it in a rubbish bin the doctors put it
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- And they all lived happily ever after
According to Thomas Perls, the director of the New England Centenarian study at Harvard University, dying at 100 is qualitively different from dying at 80. Dr Perls's research suggests that for the
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- WB, donors to spend $1bn in health sector of Bangladesh
The World Bank and other multilateral donor agencies will spend about one billion US dollar in the country's health, nutrition and population
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- Medicine gets Chinese boost
With its close links to China, it may seem paradoxical that Hong Kong has long lagged behind Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in integrating traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into its healthcare
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- A vitamin shield for the Heart?
A high intake of two B vitamins found in fruits, vegetables and other common foods appears to reduce by nearly half women's risk of suffering a heart attack, a study has shown. The study has also
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- New lease of life for weak foetus
The role colour Doppler echocardiography in treating heart diseases of unborn babies (foetus) was highlighted by the doctors attending the concluding day of the World Conference on Cardiology
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- Plan to resettle leprosy patients
The Biotechnology Department that funded the development of the anti-leprosy vaccine is backing up its use with distribution of technologies for providing gainful employment to post-leprosy and
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- Camp conducts hepatitis -B checks
Nearly 800 people, including infants, were administered the hepatitis-B vaccination at a free liver and hepatitis -B camp, the third of its type at Noida on sunday.