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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Spurt in incidence of diarrhoeal disorder in North Chennai
The run up to the Tamil month of Aadi is acknowledged by health officials as the most challenging period in tackling the spread of communicable diseases in North Chennai. The breeding of house flies
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Punjab sits pretty
Haryana has 861 women per thousand men. Punjab, with 874 women, is a shade luckier. Unlike Haryanvis, Punjabi boys are less worried about the missing women. "That is because of the difference in
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Ga ga ga, viagra
Viagra revolutionised the medical world four years ago as a wonder drug for impotence. Now it has made news again for its life-saving properties. For the first time in India, Viagra was successfully
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Indian smallpox as a Bioweapon
In a stunning revelation, American bioweapon experts have uncovered that the former Soviet Union not only weaponised an Indian strain of smallpox but also tested it on a hapless civilian population
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Rickets cases rising among children in Meghalaya
Even though thousands of children, especially from the poorer sections of society have been severely affected by rickets in Meghalaya, the government has no official records of the numbers of
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PHE water supply, a health hazard in Jammu
Public Heath Engineering Department has put thousands of people in Jammu to the risk of life and exposed them to severe gastro ailments by supplying highly polluted and contaminated water. Complaints
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AIDS drug ruling humiliates Mbeki
The South African government lost is fight to stop anit-Aids drugs being distributed to all HIV positive pregnant mothers. In what is widely seen as a humiliation for President Mbeki's ruling African
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Dengue epidemic: A grassroots solution
Identified by its white spots and bands in different parts its body and legs which resemble the stripes of a tiger, the "tiger mosquito' as the dengue virus carrying mosquito is sometimes called,
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HIV epidemic widening worldwide, experts say
In the last two years, the world has awakened to the AIDS tragedy and what it takes to bring it under control, but there is no indication that the epidemic is leveling off worldwide and strategies
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U.S. to vaccinate 500,000 workers against smallpox
The U.S. government will soon vaccinate roughly a half-million health care and emergency workers against smallpox as a precaution against a bioterrorist attack, federal officials said. The government