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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Deadly meddling
No politician is a keener armchair scientist than South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki. But Mr Mbeki is a politician, not a scientist, and his cyber excursions have led him to take a tragically
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Aurobindo's prescription for AIDS treatment
The Hyderabad-based Aurobindo Pharma, through its division Imunus, is launching two fixed dose combinations for the treatment of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The company will be
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TRIPs effect : Patents vs patients?
The technological challenges and opportunities offered by the new IPR regime call for reevaluation of the current growth strategies of the drugs and pharmaceutical sector in the developing world. The
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CCMB's strides in transgenics
By developing a simple transgenics fly-Drosophila system, the CCMB has demonstrated a new method to screen and validate a class of drugs targeted against certain types of cancers. Interestingly, a
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HC issues notice to Centre, Delhi Govt on anthrax PIL
Recent cases of anthrax attacks in the West appear to have motivated a city advocate to file a PIL against the governments. The Delhi High Court today admitted the petition and issued notices to the
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Enforcement vital
To a petition filed by Congress leader Murli Deora, a victim of passive smoking, the apex court has directed all states and union territories to ban smoking in public places and public transport.
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'Dry fish has anti-malaria properties'
Aklikanda Dutta, a teenager from Dergaon (Assam) and a student of class IX, has a dream in her mind - to popularise dry fish or "hukan mash" as a potential anti-malaria drug in future. And she has
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Total immunisation against Hepatitis-B by 2006 : Aruna
By 2006, al the children in Andhra Pradesh would be covered by immunisation and there would be cent per cent application of auto-disposable syringes in the administration of Hepatitis-B vaccine,
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Reform rider lets in attendants
It took just 96 hours for the West Bengal government ban on Special duty attendants (SDAs) to be whittled down to an entry with patient permission clause. The government softened its stand on
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Plea ignored in China's 'Cancer Village'
Those cancer deaths in 1974 hardly seemed suspicious at the time. But over the next 27 years, almost every family in this hamlet high in the mountains of central China would lose someone to