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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Doctors warn against two mass killers
The increasing number of people suffering from both diabetes and heart disease has posed a new challenge to the medical sciences as this combination requires fresh diagnostic methodology and
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'Malaria factory' at hospital
On Tuesday morning, CMC's member, mayor-in-council (health), Javed Khan, led a team to SSKM hospital in Calcutta to inspect whether the premises had been rid of the mosquito menace. The CMC team
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Use of DDT linked to premature births
Heavy use of DDT in the US before 1966 may have produced a previously undetected epidemic of premature births, a new study shows. Scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health
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Doctors now say poisoning caused 15 Orissa deaths
A team of doctors, which inquired into the starvation deaths in Kashipur block of Rayagada district in Orissa, has concluded that the deaths had been caused by food
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Child health project
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India approved reproductive and child health project through the another NGO, Assam branch of Voluntary Health Association of India recently to
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Smoking leads to ovarian failure
Smoking can lead to premature ovarian failure, or early menopause, and scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have discovered how. The work was published in the journal Nature Genetics
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U.S. agency halts human research at Johns Hopkins
The US government ordered Johns Hopkins University to suspend all federally funded research on humans after the death of a young study volunteer raised questions about the university's procedures.
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Study: Estimates of medical errors are overblown
Alarming studies suggesting that medical errors kill close to 100,000 U.S. hospital patients each year probably overestimate the problem, with the real total perhaps 5,000 to 15,000, researchers say.
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Eyedrop to cure corneal ulcers
The Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Calcutta has developed an eyedrop that can revolutionise treatment of corneal ulcers caused by fungal infection (fungal keratitis).
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Blood-clot risk reported in 1960s
International airlines were warned about the dangers of "economy class syndrome" more than 30 years ago but failed to caution passengers, a report in Cape Town