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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5 TB hospital staffers die of the disease
Five employees of a hospital specialising in curing tuberculosis have died of the disease. Several other employees are being treated for the same disease which they say contracted at their workplace.
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From hypothesis to reality
Even as India's billion plus population continues to grow at an alarming rate of 1.9 per cent, despite its being the first developing country to start a population control programme way back in 1951,
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Law on breastfeeding not yet enacted: Baby food industry flourishes unchecked
The delay in the enactment of a law for regulating the marketing of artificial infant foods and feeding products has given a freehand to the infant food industry for carrying out unethical promotion
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Demo held against tobacco companies at food park
Islamabad (Pakistan) based civil society organizations have asked the Capital Development Authority to declare Melody Food Park, tobacco free. The NGO, Network for Consumer Protection organized a
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Laws to deal with cancer
Reducing cancer death rates and improving care requires a coordinated approach to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and support. The treatment that patients receive in hospital is only one part. It's
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Russia bans brain surgery on drug addicts
A series of controversial brain operations pioneered by St Petersburg scientists as a cure to drug addiction has been halted by Russian authorities after a patient complained of damaging
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Hot summer may be behind West Nile outbreak in US
An unusually warm summer may be fueling the worst outbreak of West Nile virus in the United States since the mosquito-borne disease surfaced here three years ago, federal health officials said. Five
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First Canadian dies of human mad cow strain
A man in Western Canada has become the nation's first victim of the human strain of mad cow disease, but the patient likely contracted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in Britain and health
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In search of anti-AIDS strategies
The International AIDS Conference in Barcelona sounds the alarm regarding the increasing numbers of HIV-infected persons, particularly in the developing countries, and identifies funding as the most
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U.S. to cut off contribution to U.N. population fund
The United States has decided to stop a scheduled $34 million U.S. contribution to the United Nations Population Program (UNFPA), shifting the money instead to its bilateral population programs