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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New pesticides to fight malaria
After series of cases and research results, the Epidemiology and Disease Control Centre has come to a conclusion that mosquitoes are developing resistance to various pesticides used in Nepal meant to
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Forgetting Alzheimer's? Try coffee
Don't give up the habit of making endless trips of the coffee pot, at least not yet. For coffee may ultimately be the one protecting you against the debilitating Alzheimer's disease, an incurable
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Synthetic bioterror
Nobody who studies viruses and their genomes seemed surprised last week when researchers announced that they had synthesized a polio virus by using publicly available genetic information and chemical
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Banned parts in French beef
French beef destined for the human food chain has been discovered to contain body parts banned because of the risk of passing on BSE to humans. The announcement by French food regulators, came a day
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Malaria may prove far harder to control
Malaria may prove far more difficult to control than scientists had once thought, according to a new research on the parasite responsible for the disease. Scientists from Celera Geonomics, the group
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TB referral labs soon
A chain of referral labs for timely diagnosis of patients suffering from multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis will start operating in different parts of the country, including Sindh, by end of
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Anti-dengue campaign will continue
Officers of the Health Department in the Colombo Municipal council (Sri Lanka) who inspected 23,085 houses and institution in Colombo city had issued warrant on 2194 houses and institution who had
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Death toll from hepatitis E put at four
At least four people died from the hepatitis E virus (HEV), believed to have spread in parts of northern and northeastern Japan during the 1990s, a Tokyo-based hospital researcher said. This is the
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Health foods face ban even if not linked to illness
The Japan health ministry is considering amending the Food Sanitation Law to allow it to ban health food products even if there are no reports of damage to consumers' health, ministry officials said.
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Here come the legal wranglings over Prempro
Law firms across the country are rushing to capitalize on the just-released findings of U.S. government study that links a top-selling brand of postmenopausal hormones with increased risks of health