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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Secondhand smoke may do damage in 30 minutes
Just half an hour of secondhand smoke can impair normal blood flow to the heart, a Japanese study suggests. The study examined the effects of spending 30 minutes in a hospital's smoking room on 15
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3-day diabetes mela from October 22
The Delhi Diabetic Research Centre is organising a three-day diabetes mela in the capital from October 22 to create awareness about this disease which afflicts 10-15 lakh people in Delhi
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Pope denounces embryo research in discussion with Bush in Rome
Pope John Paul II, weighing in on the raging US debate over stem-cell research, pressed President Bush to bar medical experimentation using human embryos. "A free and virtuous society, which America
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Bristol-Myers says it won't sue drug maker
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., responding to criticism over the high price of its AIDS drugs in poor countries, could become the first big pharmaceutical company formally to allow a generic-drug maker to
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U.S. group's stem-cell study fuels debate in Washington
The political debate over embryonic stem-cell research with supporters and opponents of federal funding facing off in U.S. Senate hearings. Fueling the debate was the release of a National Institutes
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Aedes mosquitoes breed near airport, in elite Delhi colonies
Number of places in the New Delhi Municipal Council and the Delhi cantonment areas were found to be breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes causing dengue during recent checks held last week. Some of
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It wasn't the plague, after all
The Black death, which struck Europe in the 14th century and raged for 300 years, was caused by an Ebola-like virus, not Bubonic Plague, according to a new British study, details of which were
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AIDS drug test skirts rules
A pair of South Africans whose attempts to test an experimental AIDS drug caused an uproar in 1997 have quietly tested the compound on humans in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania with the help of the Tanzanian
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Encephalitis claims 16 lives in three Terai districts
Death toll from Japanese encephalitis, a culex mosquitoborne disease that mainly attacks the central nervous system, has climbed to 16 in three hospitals in Banke, Dang and Jhapa (Nepal) over the
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CM wants private role in health care
Private sector's involvement in health care is essential, the West Bengal Chief Minister said. Mr Buddhadev Bhattacharya was speaking at the inaugural function of Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan's