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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Japan finds mad cow in the feed
A dairy cow, raised in Gunma Prefecture, has tested positive for mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, in both initial and follow up tests for the disease, officials at Japan's
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Recipient of world's first artificial heart dies
Robert Toohs, who five months ago became the world's first recipient of an implanted artificial heart, died on Friday, after suffering bleeding problems, his doctors
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International meet on AIDS from tomorrow
The third international conference on AIDS INDIA beginning in Chennai on December 1 will focus on different segments including medicine, science, care giving, stigma and the community.A total of 1028
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Bellary village eats rice and flies
In Karnataka's Malapanagudi, 50 km from Bellary, men, women and children share their lives with flies. Blankets of pesky black specks cover every utensil in every room, and every morsel of food. A
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NACO's contribution in AIDS Awareness Campaign in India
AIDS is the monstrous menace of the present century. India is one of the Nations falling in the high risk Countries Asian region. It is found that about 3.8 million people in India are HIV positive.
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Drive against female foeticide
Spurred by the alarmingly declining girl to boy child ratio that now stands at 821 per thousand, around 50 NGOs and women's organisations have joined hands in a campaign to spread public awareness,
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Aurobindo to launch HIV drug upgrades
Aurobindo Pharma is expanding its portfolio of retrovirus - anti-HIV drugs, which it has been offering at competitive prices. Retinovir and Sequinovir are the two immediate drugs in the pipeline,
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Ectasy harms women more
Women are more likely than men to suffer brain cell damage form long term use of the party drug ectasy but the harm can sometimes be reversed if they stop taking the drug, Dutch scientists said.
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Polio drive covers 20 lakh children
In the second phase of the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme, over 20 lakh children were administered polio vaccine drops in about 7,000 pulse polio booths across
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Better hospital services
For improving the services of the hospitals, Rogi Kalyan Samiti will be set up in all the state government run hospitals in Delhi under the Bhagidari