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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Reliance Life plans centre for regenerative medicine
Reliance Life Sciences (RLS), listed by the National Institutes of Health, US as one of ten global companies working in the area of embryonic stem cells, plans to establish a regenerative medicine
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Pharma consortium seeks local production of patented drugs
The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) has asked the Department of Chemicals and Petro-chemicals to provide for enforcing local manufacture under 'compulsory licensing' with regard to patented
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Haryana steps to fight malnutrition
The Haryana Women and Child Development Department will spend over Rs. 27.81 crores in providing supplementary nutrition to children and women during the current financial year. It will also organise
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AIDS awareness drive in 230 colleges
The Andhra Pradesh AIDS control society has decided to create AIDS awareness among a total of 1.15 lakh college students with the help of NSS volunteers in 230 colleges in a four-phase
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Ranbaxy's AIDS webline for doctors
Ranbaxy laboratories, in association with DoctorAnywhere.com, leading tele-medicine company, has taken a major initiative to fulfill the increasing need of interaction of family physicians with AIDS
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Medicinal plants in Lingshi under threat
The "indiscriminate and wanton" collection of medicinal plants and herbs have endangered many rare medicinal species in their natural habitats in Lingshi dungkhag (Bhutan), according to the Institute
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Outbreaks of cholera and hepatitis A in Ukraine blamed on poor water quality.
Local authorities in a Ukrainian resort have tried to hush up a cholera outbreak, news sources say, while 20 people have been hospitalised with hepatitis A in a separate case of water contamination.
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U.S. approves medtronic device for heart failure
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Medtronic Inc.'s InSync device for U.S. marketing, the first electrical device ever approved for the treatment of congestive heart-failure patients.
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CDIP plans to test 25,000 tubewells at Nabinagar
In a bid to mitigate Arsenic Menace, the Centre for Development Innovation and Practices (CDIP) has taken a comprehensive programme at the Nabinagar Thana (Bangladesh) to test at least twenty five
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Roche reaches accord on drug with Brazil
The Swiss drug giant Roche Holding reached an agreement with Brazilian health authorities today to cut the price of the AIDS drug Viracept by a further 40 percent, putting an end to threats by the