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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Dengue threat looms large
The dengue threat is looming large over the capital. The Municipal Commissioner of Delhi (MCD) has set up control rooms for its anti-mosquito operations in each of 12 zones. People have been advised
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Orissa to reduce infant mortality rate
Orissa chief minister Navin Patnaik on Thursday launched a new infant mortality reduction programme in the state. Expressing concern over the Orissa's dubious distinction of having infant mortality
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Trial & Error
It has been a trial by fire for the Thiruvananthapuram-based Regional Cancer Centre for the past few weeks. Long accustomed to being hailed as a premier cancer research institute, it isn't quite used
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Kolkata steps up vigilance as Census says it's as bad as North India
The West Bengal female numbers in the zero-six age group are falling,according to Census 2001. In Kolkata, there are 923 females per 1,000 males in this age group. The 1991 Census showed 955 females
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Bush administration scales back Clinton Medicaid rules
Under pressure from states and health insurance firms, the Bush administration on Thursday scaled back Clinton-era protections promised to millions of poor Medicaid patients using private health
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AIDS prevention prompts soul-searching by clerics
When southern Africa's Roman Catholic bishops held their semiannual meeting in Pretoria last month, the issue at the top of the agenda was a proposal to approve the use of condoms for AIDS
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States worry about impact of federal health laws
State government officials are expressing grave doubts abut US government legislation on patient's rights-especially a bill passed by the House of Representatives this month-saying that the federal
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Atlanta woman dies of West Nile virus
A woman who lived near downtown Atlanta has died of the West Nile virus, the first reported death from the disease outside the Northeast since the virus emerged on the East Coast in 1999. The
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Nepal's population reaches 23.2 million : CBS
Central Bureau of Statistics(CBS) today finally made public the much awaited preliminary results of the Census 2001 which recorded population of the country as whopping 23.2 million with a growth
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Population decline not all bad news
Japan's population is charting a downward trajectory. While there is consensus that Japan's population will start decreasing sometime between now and 2007, opinions differ on precisely when it will