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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AIDS groups urge an alliance bringing medicine to the poor
As 15000 scientists, health care workers and activists gathered here for the 14th International AIDS Conference, three of the most important organisations involved in the global AIDS epidemic called
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Health agency develop joint fight against HIV and TB
The World Health Organisation was expected to announce a joint assault against the twin epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV. So far, governments and other organisations have been tuberculosis and HIV
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A new oral vaccine for diarrhoea in the offing
The rotavirus causes about one-third of all cases of diarrhoea treated in the country's hospitals. In the US an estimated annual cost of one billion-dollar is incurred due to Rotavirus infections.
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First living virus created from scratch
A US scientist has created the first living organism from scratch after carrying out a series of experiments intended to show that living beings are nothing more than chemicals and physical
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1,000 China children ill after vaccination
Nearly 1,000 schoolchildren were rushed to hospital after being vaccinated for encephalitis in northeast China and two senior officials were arrested and charged with negligence. The students, aged
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Scientists make live polio virus
Scientists reported on Thursday that they have constructed a virus from scratch for the first time, synthesizing live polio virus from chemicals and publicly available genetic information. The work,
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Arsenic wells mass poisoning Bangladeshis
Some 35 million Bangladeshis are drinking arsenic contaminated water, the poison accumulating within them day by day, sip by sip. This calamity is accompanied by paradox. For two decades, the
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World leaders for stronger leadership against AIDS
Two former Presidents, Mr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Mr. Bill Clinton of the United States, on Friday urged current heads of the state and business executives to exert stronger leadership in
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Lifestyle turns into killer disease
Indians will spend more on the treatment of lifestyle diseases than on vitamins and anti-infective treatment in the next decade, a Mckinsey analysis says. The change will mark a paradigm shift in the
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Diet pills kill one, hospitalise 11 in Japan
One woman died and another woman had to undergo an organ transplant after taking weight-reducing capsules made in China between June 2001 and May, according to the findings by the Health, Labor and