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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

• One died of dropsy in Chibramau, many others taken ill

  After eating adulterated mustard oil in Chibramau, Uttar Pradesh, dropsy disease has started showing its effect. Due to this, one woman died in Teacher's colony. She was being treated in Hallet

  • 04/12/2001

  • Dainik Jagran (Kanpur)
  • • Health

• Cases against 1697, notices served to 784 for mosquito breeding

  During the investigation on mosquito breeding in New Delhi, 784 persons were issued notices and against 1697 persons cases were filed. Giving this information Delhi's Health and Urban Development

  • 07/12/2001

  • Navbharat Times (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• New study suggests MMR link with autism

  New research which suggests a link between MMR vaccination and autism is likely to fuel the debate over the jab after it was published in the United States. The paper, published in the Journal of

  • 09/12/2001

  • • Health

• Now botox can calm that spasm

  Botulinum toxin A, marketed in the US under the name Botox, has proven effective in treating wrist and finger spasticity following a stroke, according to a study in the New England Journal of

  • 09/12/2001

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Viagra for heart patients?

  Viagra, the tiny blue pill to treat impotence, is helpful to men with heart disease, says a study published in the latest issue of Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association. Men with

  • 09/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Cuddapah district tops in incidence of malaria

  The Cuddapah district has recorded 889 malaria cases and topped in the number of malaria cases reported from the Rayalaseema region due to prevailing unhygienic conditions and lack of proper drainage

  • 09/12/2001

  • • Health

• Bloomberg turns up heat on New York's smokers

  America's war on smoking escalated when New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg called for a ban on cigarettes in all city restaurants and bars. "You really have to be out of your mind to smoke", said Mr

  • 10/12/2001

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • Health

• Revolutionary cancer drug to be given to leukaemia sufferers

  A groundbreaking cancer drug is to be made more widely available on the NHS, to the delight of patients, doctors and cancer charities. Glivec, the first of a new class of drugs that "switch off"

  • 13/12/2001

  • • Health

• 'Aspirin can help stop heart attacks'

  Recent studies have shown that a combination of drugs like Aspirin, Simvostatin and Ramipril, if taken daily by those in the high risk category of heart diseases, helps bring down chances of the

  • 30/12/2001

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Healthy trucking

  Bp is nearing completion of its bp mela 2002. This innovative scheme is part of the bp brand promise "partners in progress". The bp mela 2002 is a follow up of the immensely successful programme

  • 05/12/2001

  • Business India (Mumbai)
  • • Health