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• 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

  • 01/01/2029

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Health
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    • Traditional Knowledge
    • India
    • CSE

• India, Mexico sign deal on plant health protection

  A biennial agreement of cooperation between India and Mexico on plant health protection has been signed.

  • 30/07/2001

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• NZ study on stopping blood clots in air

  New Zealand researchers plan to question 1,000 travellers in the largest study attempting to determine the risk of air passengers suffering blood clots. In the Otago University-funded study,

  • 24/07/2001

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• 64m people carry HIV/AIDS virus

  Some 64 million people in Asia carry the HIV/AIDS virus while China seems especially prone to an epidemic because of the recent steep rise in Sexually Transmitted Infections and a large scale

  • 14/07/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• World population soars

  World population was crossed 6 billion on 12 Oct 1999 and was estimated at 6.067 billion in 2000. Population had doubled since 1969. China with 1,264.5 million people is the largest country in the

  • 22/07/2001

  • Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
  • • Health

• Options For Safe Water

  For some time now, experts have been involved in a verbal argument over the cause and source of the arsenic contamination that is creating such a problem for us. Now, after years of research on

  • 16/07/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• Arsenic panic grips people in Faridpur

  Excessive arsenic contamination has been detected in water of tubewells of the Faridpur district in Dhaka. As a result, the people of the rural area have been seized with arsenic panic. A survey

  • 15/07/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• National survey on ICDS scheme

  The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has presented a nationwide evaluation survey of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), a programme which aims at improving the

  • 24/07/2001

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Drive to save girl child

  Alarmed by the decreasing sex ratio between boys and girls in the State as per the 2001 census, the Haryana Government has slapped a ban on prenatal sex determination tests of pregnant women of above

  • 24/07/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Hepatitis B Vaccine

  India has finalised its action plan to introduce Hepatitis B vaccine under universal immunisation programme by 2002, a World Health Organisation official said in Gangtok on Monday. Within the

  • 24/07/2001

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• TB hospital ties up with govt to fight disease

  Shri K.J. Mehta TB Hospital in Amadgadh has collaborated with the Gujarat government in eradicating TB and raising the societal health

  • 21/07/2001

  • • Health