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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Many gay men in U.S. unaware they have H.I.V., study finds
The vast majority of young gay and bisexual men in the United States who were found to have the AIDS virus in a new study were unaware of their infection, according to findings reported as the 14th
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Gastro claims 8 lives in Tripura
Eight tribals including three children have died of gastro enteritis in a remote Tripura district, Health Department sources said. The disease has spread to Chawmanu, Gobindaari, East Malldhar and
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AIDS group to file suit against Glaxo
A group caring for AIDS patients is set to file a US lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline alleging the drugs giant is overcharging for its medicines and some of its patents are invalid, the Wall Street
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Doordarshan drive against AIDS
The Director General of Doordarshan and Project Director of National AIDS Control Organisation are visiting London early next week to participate in the repeat launch of the most intensive broadcast
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Good news about oral contraceptives
A new study reverses the long held notion that birth control pills increase a women's risk for breast cancer. Breast cancer experts at Johns Hopkins say these newest results confirm that taking birth
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Schizophrenia may be tied to 2 genes, research finds
Despite years of false leads, setbacks and unsustained claims, researchers hope they are now starting to close in on some of the genes that go awry in schizophrenia, a devastating mental disease that
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Birth registration yet to catch up in Nepal : Experts
Out of forty percent of total births worldwide in 2000, it is estimated that 50 million babies were not registered among which 22.3 million are from South Asia. This is disclosed in the study report
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'AIDS infects 14 Nepalis per day'
Each day 14 Nepalis are infected with HIV, a virus carrying the fatal disease AIDS. The fact was revealed in an interaction programme organised by Makwanpur district committee of Federation of
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US using water as a weapon of war against Iraq
The United States is using water as a weapon of war against Iraq by denying it vital water-treatment chemicals. The result of such sanctions has not been the toppling of Saddam Hussein but rather the
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Growing AIDS threat
India seems to be in a tearing hurry to march ahead of South Africa as the country that has the highest number of HIV infected patients. The figures released by UNAIDS on the eve of next week's