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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Brussels to speed drug approval
The European Commission will unveil plans to overhaul the approval process for new medicines in a bid to halt the drift of drug research to the US. The proposals aim to reduce the time it takes to
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G-8 leaders set to approve $1B AIDS fund
Leaders of the world's richest countries were expected to approve a $1 billion fund to combat AIDS at a summit beginning Friday. On the eve of the meeting, protesters staged small demonstrations in
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Coal miners' appeal goes against state
The Fukuoka High Court ordered the government and three private firms Thursday to pay some 1.91 billion yen in compensation to 30 former coal miners and the next of kin of 95 victims of
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U.S. suspends human research at Johns Hopkins after a death
After investigating the death last month of a young, healthy volunteer in a research study at Johns Hopkins University, a federal oversight agency yesterday suspended almost all the university's
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Indigenous mobile heart hospital launched
The residents of Bikaner will have a gigantic forty metre long trailer visiting them on Saturday. No, it won't be some hard-working truck driver coming back home for work. Instead, it will be
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Care of HIV/AIDS patients grossly inadequate
While awareness campaign for the prevention of HIV/AIDS has shown some results, care and treatment of HIV-infected persons is woefully inadequate. This, it seems, is because the National AIDS Policy
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WB credit for leprosy programme
The World Bank is to provide an interest-free credit of US dollars 30 million (Rs 143 crores) to give a new thrust to leprosy eradication efforts in the country. An agreement to this effect was
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Malaria, gastro creating havoc in remote Tripura villages
Severe outbreak of malarial diseases in Tripura has taken an alarming proportion. The most affected are the remote tribal areas which are reeling under not only malaria but also hepatitis and
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Japan supports Bhutan's maternal and child health programme
Japan has provided seven ambulances and medical equipment worth 205 million yen to support the health department's Maternal and Child Health (MCH) project.
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Gujarat Bill to curb population boom
Gujarat is all set to pass a law for enforcing the "two children per family" norm, by providing disincentives to those who do not abide by it.