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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No doctors, few paramedics and lots of mosquitoes
Falciparum malaria struck Zinzuwada almost three months back, claiming 36 lives so far, but the first doctor to treat the ailing reportedly landed in this remote is too understaffed to foresee any
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92% Bhagirath Place drugs found fake
About 92 per cent of the medicines at Bhagirath Place, North India's largest wholesale drug market, have been found to be spurious. Only four of the 53 samples of common and life saving drugs, which
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The U.S. military and its secret tests on the American public
Fifty one years ago, Edward J Nevin checked into a San Francisco hospital, complaining of chills, fever and general malaise. Three weeks later, the 75-year-old retired pipe fitter was dead, the
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Two more US deaths linked to anthrax attack
Two Washington postal workers died apparently victims of the most extensive and concentrated outbreak of anthrax since bioterrorism attacks by mail started in the US late last month. Although final
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Bayer move shot-in-arm for Indian majors
International pharma major Bayer AG's decision to consider making the anti-anthrax drug, Cipro, with other companies would well be the opportunity that most Indian companies have been waiting for
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Naturally occurring anthrax infects about 2000 people around the world.
The global rash of bioterrorism alerts has tended to obscure the fact that natural anthrax is still a health hazard around the world, infecting around 2000 people a year. The disease occurs mainly in
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Canine care goes exotic
Peru's exotic "hairless dog" said to be able to relieve rheumatism and asthma in people, has been elevated to national heritage status under political orders to ensure it never becomes extinct.
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Officials voice new worry as anthrax taints off-site White House mailroom
Traces of the deadly anthrax germ showed up in a remote White House mailroom today, as health officials announced that more "hot spots" had also been found at the capital's main mail sorting center,
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Officials admit error over anthrax
The Bush administration struggled Wednesday to make the nation's vast postal system and its 800,000 employees safe from anthrax. Surgeon General David Satcher bluntly admitted "we were wrong" not to
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Smallpox vaccines for everyone?
As anxious as the U.S. is over anthrax, the isolated outbreaks are only a lukewarm version of what a true infectious-disease hot zone would look like. Because anthrax is rarely contagious, the