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• 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

  • 01/01/2029

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Health
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    • Traditional Knowledge
    • India
    • CSE

• SSG launches voluntary HIV testing facility

  It's toll-free line which provides counseling and detailed information on HIV-Aids and sex education. Though the telephone line became operational about four months ago, it has failed to get the

  • 31/07/2002

  • • Health

• Maharashtra marks first 'no-gutkha day'

  Thousands of gutkha addicts went without the favorite pouches on Thursday as Maharashtra began implementing its blanket ban on chewing and sale of gutkha in Maharashtra. Paanwallahs, shops and stalls

  • 02/12/2001

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• The story of tuberculosis in India, now on celluloid

  Every minute, someone in India dies of tuberculosis. About 38 per cent of the population (about 22 lakh) is infected by the disease - that means there can be one patient in every 40 persons around

  • 02/12/2001

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Gutka banned in M.P.

  The Madhya Pradesh High Court, imposed an immediate ban on the manufacture, sale, transportation and possession of all types of tobacco addictives all over the

  • 03/12/2001

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• 'Breast feed your baby'

  Almost 15 per cent children born in India to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus every year due to inadequate knowledge of breast-feeding and ignorance about HIV among women. Emphasizing the need

  • 02/12/2001

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Rainfall delay causing skin diseases

  The lack of rainfall during the current monsoon season has its fallout on the skin of the citizens of the Capital. The likely symptoms are patches on skin, or the darkness of exposed areas and nasal

  • 02/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Cancer looms over women, statistics unearth alarming trends

  Bangalore has the highest proportion of tobacco-related cancers (TRCs) in women - 17.3 per cent - among the eight places surveyed by the National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP). Surprisingly, the

  • 01/12/2001

  • • Health

• Kerala, world's first 'baby-friendly State'

  Kerala will be declared as the first 'baby-friendly State in the world' at a ceremony to be held jointly by the UNICEF, the Kerala Health Department, Indian Academy of Paediatrics and other

  • 01/12/2001

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Health

• In a vicious circle

  Despite the efforts of several NGOs, Manipur continues to be in the grip of an AIDS epidemic, whose spread is aided by widespread poverty and a thriving business in the smuggling of

  • 02/12/2001

  • Frontline (Chennai)
  • • Health

• Lack of sleep doubles the risk of heart attack

  Working sixty or more hours a week, and regularly not getting much sleep, may double the risk of having a heart attack, shows research in Occupational and Environmental

  • 01/12/2001

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Health