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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People warned about rabies
Rabies is one of those peculiar diseases which is completely preventable, but its rate of fatality is cent per cent. This was stated by Dr Naseem Salahuddin, head of the infectious diseases
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Remove the block forever
Angioplasty is one of the most common ways of removing arterial blocks. but in many cases the blood vessel thickens again within a few months. A new drug called Sirolimus promises to remove the
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No recommendation for smallpox vaccinations
A government advisory panel came out against vaccinating all Americans against smallpox, instead proposing that the shots be given to special teams of people in each state who would be designated the
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Alcohol won't help fight diabetes
Moderate drinkers have a reduced risk of developing diabetes, researchers said, but they don't think it is due to the impact of alcohol. Scientists at the Royal Free and University College medical
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Ranbaxy in strategic tie with Cybele
Ranbaxy is believed to have finalised a strategic tie-up with the South-based herbal company Cybele for sourcing herbal products. Under the proposed tie-up, Ranbaxy will source some select herbal
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Roche drug is given go-ahead
Roche received a welcome boost when European regulators approved Pegasys, the Swiss healthcare group's new treatment for hepatitis C. Pegasys is the group's only important new drug launch this year
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Put limits on vaccinations for smallpox, panel urges
A panel of scientific experts that advises that federal government has recommended that a small number of health care workers in each state, perhaps 20000 Americans in all, be vaccinated against
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3 test positive for dengue
Weeks after 11 samples from New Panvel were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune, its Director, Dr A C Mishra, confirmed that three out of the 11 samples tested positive for
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Stents hold new hope for cardiac patients
The availability of high-quality medicated "stents" to reduce the recurrence of stenosis holds a new hope for cardiac patients who can now be successfully treated without undertaking a coronary
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6 die of cerebral malaria in Bihar
The tribal areas of Haveli Kharagpur subdivision of Munger district in Patna are in the grip of malaria and villagers maintained that six persons died of cerebral malaria in the recent times. The