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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Fair to create awareness about diabetes
Delhi Diabetics Research Centre (DDRC) will be organizing a Diabetes Fair from September 27-29 at Talkatora Stadium to spread awareness about the disease. The fair will be organised in association
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Vitrification could keep tissue safe during the big chill
Baseball legend Ted Williams may have dreamed of a future where he could be taken out of frozen storage and thawed for extra innings in life. But the real-world science of cryobiology is only
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Child contracts polio despite vaccination
Polio vaccines cannot guarantee 100 per cent immunisation from the disease, acting executive health officer of BMC M. Kathuria told TNN. Dr Kathuria was reacting to the latest case of poliomyeletis
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U.K. move threatens ayurveda
The move of the U.K. government to include ayurveda among the list of 'herbal remedies' will seriously cripple the ayurvedic medicine manufacturing industry in the country which has set an export
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Water-borne diseases cause alarm in Rajkot
High incidence dysentery and related complaints- 150 cases in ten days - has alarmed civic health officials in Gujarat. Before July 10 daily four or five cases were reported. It was deemed normal.
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Gutkha cos. to appeal against ban
Gutkha and 'pan masala' traders have decided to oppose a ban on the addictive products and approach the Supreme Court to protect the livelihood of over two million people expected to be affected by
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Encaphlytes epidemic scare
Assam has been hit by dreadful Encaphlytes. Forty-five people have died in the last one month in the districts of Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Tinsukia and Sibsagar has been affected so far. The disease
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Gutka lobby flays ban, threatens to move court
Zafrani Zarda and Pan Masala Association of India on Wednesday urged the Maharashtra state government's to reconsider its decision on clamping statewide ban on gutka and pan masala and alleged that
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Government amending act to penalise gutkha users
Consuming gutkha and paan masala will not invite legal action, at least for now, Maharashtra state excise and food and drugs minister Anil Deshmukh said on Tuesday. He was divulging plans for strict
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Special combat teams to check water borne diseases
The health service department will form special combat teams to check water borne disease in 90 villages in Indore and Ujjain divisions of Madhya