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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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• Typhoid in Morang

  Outbreak of Typhoid and other communicable diseases has been reported in Lotang Bazzar in Morang district (Nepal) as the locals are deprived of clean drinking water for the past two weeks.

  • 12/12/2001

  • • Health

• 1185 dengue patients in city so far

  Admitting the outbreak of Dengue fever in the Dhaka city and elsewhere across Bangladesh at an alarming proportion, Health Minister Khondker Mosharraf Hossain has called for creating public awareness

  • 08/12/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• Blood banks need to inform donors of hepatitis C infection

  There are 3.4 lakh hepatitis C infected people in Delhi and doctors say only a handful of them are aware of their infection. There are no obvious symptoms of the infection in its initial stages as

  • 17/12/2001

  • • Health

• Test that detects malaria early to be in India soon

  A World Health Organisation recommended malaria detection test package will be imported to India from the US, boosting efforts to eradicated the disease. World Diagnostics Inc. (WDI) will export its

  • 17/12/2001

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Polio on the rise, UP worst hit

  Polio cases are on the rise in India with Uttar Pradesh overwhelmingly emerging as the main problem area. The problem in UP and other states, health ministry officials say, is not only government

  • 17/12/2001

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• S Africa listing may require Aids details

  Companies listed in South Africa would have to report HIV/Aids infection rates among their employees and detail and steps they are taking to fight the pandemic under plans being considered by the

  • 15/12/2001

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • Health

• Pretoria's stance on Aids drugs concerns companies

  South Africa has one of the highest HIV/Aids infection rates in the world with 4.7m people infected. The government's resistance to the use of anti-retroviral drugs within the public sector is

  • 15/12/2001

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • Health

• U.S. launch of cancer drug faces delays

  AstraZeneca PLC's experimental cancer drug Iressa appears to buy lung-cancer patients a few extra months could mean that some terminally ill people may not live to see it on the market. Iressa has

  • 07/12/2001

  • Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong)
  • • Health

• 14 cases of malaria detected in Bhoipur

  A fresh outbreak of Malaria has been reported in Bhojpur, the eastern hill district (Nepal). Altogether 14 cases of Malaria have been detected in the district hospital within a week, and the number

  • 11/12/2001

  • • Health

• Scientists act over Quorn health effects

  Complaints about the health effects of the Quorn brand of meat substitutes are to be studied by the government's food standards agency after consumers are said to have complained of vomiting and

  • 17/12/2001

  • • Health