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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5,000 thalassaemic children born every year: study
Some 5,000 children are born in Pakistan, every year, with thalassaemia major disease, while a majority of them die before reaching the age of 15 years. Data suggests that one in eight and one in 50
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Depression raises risk of heart failure in aged
Being depressed stresses the heart and more than doubles the risk of heart failure among the elderly with high blood pressure, researchers said on Sunday. Depression causes excessive stimulation of
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Hopes for public-private genome research
New private-public partnerships in genomic research are expected to emerge from a meeting in Washington of international pharmaceutical company leaders and heads of the US National Institutes of
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Europe now getting the quit smoking message
Visitors to Europe are often startled by how widespread smoking sill is there. But now there is some evidence that more European smokers are trying to quit, at least in Britain.The use of products
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Study on benefits of smoking causes stir
A unique study commissioned by a major cigarette company, which concludes that smokers contributed millions of dollars to the Czech state exchequer by drying prematurely, has raised many eyebrows but
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Cholera kills 130 people in Afghanistan
At least 130 people have died of cholera in a northern Afghanistan town besieged by the Taliban militia, Opposition officials said on Sunday. The disease claimed its first victim in the town of
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South African minister brews AIDS medicine
A South African government minister is making a secret herbal medicine out of peach leaves to help treat AIDS, the Sunday Times reported. It said the medicine was mixed and brewed in a hut on Public
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Epidemic threat looms large
The flood waters have started receding in the affected districts of Orissa, but the threat of outbreak of epidemics is looming large. Reports of incidence of diarrhoea and gastroenteritis have
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Paths reopen as farms crisis fades
More footpaths across Britain were reopened as the foot-and-mouth crisis continued to be confined to areas such as Cumbria and North Yorkshire in the north of
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11 die, 157 carry of AIDS virus in country
A total of 157 people are carrying HIV virus in Bangladesh of whom 17 have already been infected with full bloom AIDS victims have already died. This was stated in a week-long seminar on "Educational