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
Health
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India on its way to diabetic hotspot by 2020
Almost 3.5 crore Indians are diabetic. And if the current trend continues, India would be the diabetic hotspot of the world by 2020, states a World Health Organisation report. Urban pressures, poor
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Palestinians declare health emergency
The Palestinian health minister declared a state of emergency after a study commissioned by the US foreign aid agency found a more than threefold increase in the number of young Palestinian children
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Deadly germ found in municipal arts centre
The bacteria that causes legionnaires' disease has been found in a water treatment plant at a municipal arts and civic centre in the Cumbrian town experiencing one of Britain's worst outbreaks of the
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Novartis in warning over South Korea
Novartis is at the heart of a bitter dispute between the international pharmaceuticals industry and the South Korean government over drug pricing. The Swiss company has warned that South Korean
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Russia's rise in addicts leads to rampant HIV
Drug abuse has grown dramatically in Russia over the past decade, prompting a massive rise in the spread of HIV, according to government figures. A Russian interior ministry official said that the
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HIV patients press ministry to increase help, treatment
A group of people who sued Japan government after contracting HIV from tainted blood products asked health minister Chikara Sakaguchi to provide help to the families of those who have died from
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Scientist defends vaccine choice
The head of the scientific committee which advised UK government on its purchase of smallpox vaccine last night insisted that its recommendations had nothing to do with the Labour donor running the
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'Magic' pill that may tame the killer cells
In the first month of the last year of the last millennium, Brian Druker, a medical researcher in Oregon, began dosing a dying patient with an experimental new compound, codenamed STI571, designed to
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New drugs are calming to autistics
Parents and educators can control the tantrums, aggression and self injurious behavior of children with autism and related disorders by placing them on an anti-psychotic medicine that is approved
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Alaska natives prone cancer
Alaska's Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts are more likely than American whites to die within five years from cancer because they tend to be stricken by cancers that are difficult to detect and kill