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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Dimensions of malnutrition in India
Poverty induced malnutrition continues to affect a large segment of the Indian population spread widely across the country. In fact, a World Bank study has cautioned India about the serious state
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Bill Gates and wife get award
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have been awarded the International Union of Immunological Societies' prize for supporting the development of vaccines. The prize committee said
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A vaccine that eliminates tooth decay
Harvard University researchers working at the Forsyth Institute in Boston have developed a vaccine they hope will eliminate tooth decay, or dental caries--the disease that causes most childhood trips
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Rat fever claims one in M'lore
A case of death, allegedly due to rat gever, has been reported from Kulai-Chitrapur area near Surathkal. The deceased has been identified as Janaki. The district health officials have rushed to the
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Tragic flaws
To err is human, but getting medical professionals to own up to such frailty is far from easy. At Bristol Royal Infirmary, between 1984 and 1995, more than 90 babies were injured or died during open
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Philip Morris apologizes for report on deaths
Trying to defuse a widening public-relations crisis, a top executive at Philip Morris Cos. apologized for a company-funded report calling cost savings from smokers' early deaths one of the "positive
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Novartis cancer drug gets approval in Europe
European regulators have approved Glivec, a revolutionary cancer treatment developed by Novartis of Switzerland. Approval of the drug, which some analysts say could have sales of $1bn a year, is
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Panel to vet sale of globally banned drugs
The government has set up a high level expert committee to review sale of internationally banned drugs in the domestic market on the recommendations of World Health Organisation. At present, as many
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Leptospirosis toll 25 in Maharashtra
Three more persons died of leptospirosis during the last three days in the Western suburbs of Mumbai, taking the toll in the metropolis and neighbouring Thane district to 25. More than 219 confirmed
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Drug approval agency denies stalling on new medicines
A senior US regulator has hit back at pharmaceutical company suggestions that the Food and Drug Administration has become more conservative, saying the agency has not tightened standards for drug