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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World's largest HIV vaccine trial
Thailand announced it will hold the world's largest HIV vaccine trial, involving 16000 participants and organised in cooperation with the United States Military HIV Research
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152 children fall sick
As many as 152 children of the panchayat school at Seelapadi near Dindigul, Tamil Nadu were admitted to hospital with complaints of vomiting, diarrhoea and dizziness after they took "deworming
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Delhi's weapon against mosquitoes: Fish force
The monsoon's coming and so are the mosquitoes. But this time Capital's civic bodies have come up with a novel idea to combat malaria and dengue spreading parasites - pisciculture. Both the MCD and
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India has 30 lakh Alzheimer patients, numbers are rising
There has been a significant rise in the number of people above the age of 70 suffering from Alzheimer's disease, a dreaded form of dementia, in the last 10 years in the country. India accounts for
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'Residents forced to drink polluted water'
The Indore Municipal Corporation is supplying polluted water to several parts of the city, alleged Congress corporator Chhotu Shukla on Thursday. Highly polluted water is being supplied to several
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4,263 malarial cases in five months!
Monsoons have put the bite on Goa once again as Goa's Directorate of Health Services (DHS) received a total of 4263 malaria cases throughout the State in five months. Officials sources said that of
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3 fresh cases of diarrhoea reported
Three fresh cases of diarrhoea due to contaminated water supply were reported from Azad Nagar locality in Gitapalli ward of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Patients have been admitted to Infectious Diseases
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Nagaland bans sale of non-iodized salt
The Nagaland health services directorate has banned the sale of non-iodized salt in the state stating that iodine deficiency in the body causes serious health complications, which includes goitre,
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Putting their money where their AIDS promises are
On the eve of the next week's International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, a new report from UNAIDS shows that AIDS, now undeniably the deadliest epidemic in human history, will at current rates kill
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New angioplasty technique introduced
A new technique of angioplasty commonly known as ballooning of arteries of heart, has been introduced in Punjab for the first time. Chpher stent, found to be highly effective in prevention of artery