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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Bush offers plan to help mothers avoid passing H.I.V. to babies
With both Republicans and Democrats in Congress urging him to increase spending to fight global AIDS, President Bush announced a $500 million plan to prevent expectant mothers from passing the AIDS
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Europe to be declared free of polio infection
Europe and parts of central Asia are about to be declared 'polio free' by an expert commission of the World Health Organisation. In an important milestone towards the agency's goal of eradicating
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Mobile phones and children
At a recent seminar on 'Health Hazards from Radioactive Emission from Laser and Mobile Telephones' at the CIRDAP auditorium in Dhaka (Bangladesh). Dr Abdul Jalil, Director of the Bangladesh Atomic
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Panel debates revising U.S. policy on smallpox shots
On the eve of a planned vote on whether to change the US government's recommendations on smallpox vaccine, a national advisory panel struggled to determine what is the actual risk of a bioterrorist
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A jury awards $5.5 million in a secondhand smoke case
The US's biggest tobacco companies suffered their first defeat in a secondhand smoke case this week, and they said that they would use the setback to challenge a critical ruling governing the $349
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Pollution Board raises alarm on contaminated city drinking water
Guwahatians, beware of polluted potable water being supplied in the city! The polluted water in the city is responsible for water borne diseases like typhoid, hepatitis, gastroenteritis, skin
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After Tipaimukh, mysterious disease grips Moreh
After the attack of a mysterious disease in Tipaimukh sub-division of Churachandpur district of Manipur, recently another mysterious epidemic has gripped Moreh, a border town neighbouring Myanmar
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AIDS : The Bangladesh scenario
With an increasing in the awareness level, the number of HIV -positive cases is ironically on rise and Bangladesh's AIDS scenario is getting complicated day by day, leaving an anxious syndrome
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Goli Ke Hamjoli project a success
The "Goli Ke Hamjoli" project, launched in Uttar Pradesh to popularise the oral contraceptive pills in 1998 by involving private sector has started giving desirable results and the percentage of
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Abortions of China's girls on rise
In greater numbers than ever, China's villagers are using inexpensive prenatal scans and then abortion to prevent the birth of unwanted daughters and to ensure that they will bear a son, recent