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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Form of hepatitis inhibits AIDS
An apparently harmless - and widely carried - virus discovered only six years ago inhibits the progression of HIV infection to full-blown AIDS, allowing HIV-positive people to live substantially
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Dieting may help prolong life, study suggests
After only one month on a very lowcalorie diet, the gene activity of mice in a scientific study was altered nearly as significantly as that of animals who follow such a diet on a long-term basis.
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Scientists use stem cells to produce blood cells
Providing some of the first evidence that stem cells from embryos can be coaxed to form specific tissue types in the laboratory, scientists at the University of Wisconsin have turned embryonic stem
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Scientists succeed in transforming human stem cell
Biologists at the University of Wisconsin were reporting that they had transformed human embryonic stem cells into blood-making cells, a step that they say lays the basis for a novel set of therapies
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Virus may prolong HIV patients' lives
A little-known, apparently harmless hepatitis-like virus has demonstrated a remarkable ability to stall replication of the AIDS virus and prolong the lives of HIV-positive patients, according to
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Possible cure for AIDS
Leading AIDS researchers said on Wednesday that they were more optimistic than ever about the prospect of developing a vaccine that is capable of controlling, if not eliminating, the deadly HIV
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AIDS bomb ticking away in Shekhawati
AIDS is fast spreading its tantacles in the Shekhawati region. The killer disease have claimed at least 15 lives in the last one year from Jhunjhunu district. Out of these, 7 people have perished in
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National health policy
The fact that the union health minister and a renowned doctor, C P Thakur, has announced a national health policy, the first such in 18 years, is welcome but there are hardly any major initiatives to
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Poor nations contribute bulk of world smokers
The number of smokers in the world is estimated to increase from the current level of 1.1 billion to 1.6 billion by 2025. Though there is a decline in the consumption of cigarettes in the developed
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Robot brain surgeon?
No need to worry any longer about the surgeon's hand shaking during delicate brain surgery - intelligent robots are set to take over. The nerve-tingling prospect was put forward yesterday by UK-based