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
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Therapies push injured brains and spinal cords into new paths
Like engineers in thrall to a new idea, many of the doctors and therapists who help patients with brain injuries are using revolutionary insights about the brain to coax the nervous system into
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Army on stand-by to join fight against foot-and-mouth
The Army is on stand-by to join the fight against foot-and-mouth disease in Northumberland (UK). Newcastle's Emergency Disease Control Centre says it has the authority to call for soldiers if its
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New Jersey confirms first case of a West Nile-related illness
For the first time this year, health officials have confirmed a case of illness caused by the mosquito-borne West Nile virus in a resident of New Jersey, and they outlined plans yesterday to spray
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Ageing populace is killing economy, says study
The rapid ageing of the developed world is pushing the global economy towards the edge of a demographic abyss, an international panel warned yesterday. In the most detailed study yet of the
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Overseas groups may run hospital units
The UK government is considering inviting healthcare companies from continental Europe to staff and run hospital units for the state-run National Health Service in an attempt to hit targets for
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Prozac patients switch to generic treatment
Eighty per cent of US patients who use the anti depressant Prozac switched to a generic equivalent in its first week on the market, underscoring the risks of patent expiration to leading drug
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AIDS awareness programme in Haryana
The Haryana AIDS Control Society, Panchkula, has decided to invite proposals from voluntary organisations which are interested in working in the State for implementing AIDS awareness and control
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Families sue Pfizer on test of antibiotic
Thirty Nigerian families sued Pfizer in US court yesterday, saying the company conducted an unethical clinical trial of an antibiotic on their children in 1996. It is the first suit in the United
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Spreading Asian tiger mosquito
Vanishing coastline may not be the only peril in a global-warming world: disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquitoes may find the hotter temperatures to their liking and may show up in places they've
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Kala-azar drugs "substandard"
The families of those killed by the kala-azar disease that has spread in north Bihar districts in an epidemic proportions cry genocide and blame the state as well as the Central Government for the