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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Doctors say disorders such as obesity, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome are not diseases
A leading medical journal is about to risk the wrath of patient groups by asking whether certain conditions, from chronic fatigue syndrome to obesity to depression, ought to be reclassified as
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Doctors rewarded for drug cutbacks
The medical community will be financially rewarded for prescribing fewer and cheaper drugs to patients under a program to be trailed by the Australian Government. Under a pilot program to be
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Drive against polio in Pindi from 16th
Three-day polio vaccination campaign will be launched from April 16 to vaccinate 5,60,780 children below the age of five years in Rawalpindi district (Pakistan). Vitamin A supplement will also be
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Arsenic-mass poisoning on an unprecedented scale
The largest mass poisoning of a population in history is now underway in Bangladesh. It is terrible public catastrophe, asserts Allan H. Smith Professor of Epidemiology at the University of
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Hospitals need to clean up their act : CAG
More than five years after the notification on medical waste management came into being, city hospitals are yet to learn their lessons on disposing waste safely and in environment friendly way,
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Study on non-communicable diseases
The World Health Organisation, the Union Health Ministry and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences have launched a study to assess the risk factors for non-communicable diseases such as
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Birth weight critical for adult weight
Evidence is mounting that birth weight plays a role in adult health. For example, studies, suggest high birth weight increases the risk of obesity in adulthood, while lighter babies may have more fat
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Cutting risks of donated blood
A process now undergoing final testing may rid donated blood of virtually all viruses and bacteria, bringing a new level of safety to blood transfusions. Experts say the process, which uses chemicals
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Eye operations in open banned
In view of the mishaps in the recent past in which patients lost their eyes in the eye camps being organised by various voluntary organisations in open, the Punjab state government has decided to ban
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Prevent spread of contagious diseases : Sojatia
Minister for Public Relations and Health Subhash Kumar Sojatia has issued necessary directives to the Chief Medical Officers of different districts to prevent spread of contagious diseases likely to