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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Pfizer says US beating Europe in drugs sector
Europe is rapidly losing ground to the US in the pharmaceuticals industry because of heavy controls on medicine prices, the head of the world's largest drugs company
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Medical team turns focus on smallpox risk
Sprinklings of anthrax spores, mostly in relatively small traces, continued to turn up in Washington as health authorities sharpened their focus on other potential bioterror threats, primarily
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AIDS study on patents and Africa sets off furor
A new debate has erupted over the epidemic of AIDS in Africa, about whether it is patents or poverty that is primarily responsible for the widespread lack of treatment. The issue has become a major
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Muthi becomes big business
Under a highway overpass in central Johannesburg, the Faraday muthi market's 170 traders make their living from the raw materials used in traditional medicine. A report by Myles Mander, a consultant
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Clinical contraceptives decreasing under FPP making chore dearer
Despite substantial increase in contraceptive prevalence in the last five years, proportion of clinical contraceptives, excepting injectable ones, is decreasing under Bangladesh's family planning
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Suburban sprawl contributes to poor health
Research compiled by an environmental group has, for the first time, linked land use changes with negative effects on public health. The comprehensive report by the group Sprawl Watch spotlights the
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Patents or poverty? A new debate over poor AIDS care in Africa
A new debate has erupted over the epidemic of AIDS in Africa, about whether it is patents or poverty that is primarily responsible for the widespread lack of treatment. The issue has become a major
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Criminal apathy
The death of 13 infants in the paediatric neo-natal emergency ward of King Goege's Medical College, Lucknow, in the past one month has kicked up enough dust for even the Prime Minister's Office to
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Committee on pre-natal tests set up
The Centre on Wednesday informed an anguished Supreme Court that to overcome the lack of efforts on the part of the state governments to implement the law prohibiting sex-determination tests done by
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Scientists in India are developing new anthrax vaccine
Indian scientists have developed a low-cost anthrax vaccine that avoids all toxic effects in tests on rodents, the government said. Commercial production of the vaccine is expected to begin in six to