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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Health helpline
The health and family welfare department will inaugurate a toll free telephone helpline on common diseases and their treatment in West Bengal. Director of health services Prabhakar Chatterjee said
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Killer virus may spread through America
America's epidemic of West Nile Virus, the disease passed on by mosquitoes that has claimed at least seven lives, is the worst in US history and may spread to the whole of the country.
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Humla set to be herbal farming district
Dabur Nepal a multinational company producing herbal medicines, is soon to develop Humla district in Karnali as a district of herbal farming and research.
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Saudi Arabia wakes up to AIDS
Saudi Arabia has stepped up its AIDS awareness campaign as 1285 AIDS cases were reported in the country. Though the figure was much lower than that in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region in
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Poisonous water claims two lives
Two villagers died and some villagers were hospitalized due to drinking of poisonous water in Thana Bula Khan taluka (Pakistan) the other day. Haji Mateero Sahtani, 35, and his daughter, Nazeeran,
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Poverty, population growth interlinked
NWFP Minister for Health Dr Mehar Taj Roghani has said we cannot succeed to control the high growth of population in Pakistan until each person realizes the effects of increasing population ratio.
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Noxious byproduct of mad cow disease haunts France
Hundreds of seagulls gather daily on the roof of a warehouse on an isolated tongue of land in the Seine estuary at Le Havre. The attraction is less the view of the Normandy Bridge, one of the great
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Bid to control malaria in Kavre
Four thousand people of Kavre district (Nepal) have been affected by malaria as a result of the torrential rains in the past few weeks, according to the District Public Health Office. The office has
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Cost of malnutrition Tk 5700 cr annually
Bangladesh's current cost of malnutrition is estimated at one billion US dollars annually, a World Bank study available in Dhaka said. The study on 'Breaking the Malnutrition Barrier Key to
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Bangla villagers sue UK scientists
A group of Bangladeshis has taken British scientists to court in London alleging that they failed to prevent arsenic poisoning of thousands of people. In a writ lodged this week, the Bangladeshi