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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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• Fight against TB hit by bad programmes

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that poorly-managed tuberculosis programmes are leading to the spread of multi-drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis bacillus all over the world. This

  • 19/12/2001

  • • Health

• Painting a picture of health

  The 410 bed Karnataka Health Institute in the tiny town of Ghataprabha is a rural healthcare centre with modern facilities, and a role model for the country's healthcare

  • 19/12/2001

  • Business India (Mumbai)
  • • Health

• Arsenic king of poisons

  After the latest horrifying tale of the effect of arsenic poisoning on the people of Bangladesh as published in the New York Times, and after a foreign diplomat has cautioned the Bangladesh

  • 04/12/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• Preventing HIV in newborns

  The Delhi state government launched its mother-to-child HIV prevention programme in Guru Tegh Bahadur, Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Girdharilal Jain maternity hospitals. But the programme has not made any

  • 14/12/2001

  • • Health

• Plan panel clears Rs 150-cr pharma promotion fund

  Ending more than two years of intriguing uncertainty since it was first announced in Budget 2000, the Planning Commission has finally earmarked a sum of Rs 150 crore as R&D promotion fund for the

  • 14/12/2001

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Docs demand ban on advertising of tobacco products

  Following the footsteps of the Maharashtra government, the Gujarat government has plans of taking strict action against the sale of gutkha in Gujarat. However, city-based oncologists feel that even

  • 12/12/2001

  • • Health

• NGOs to look after student's health

  Delhi Cabinet on Monday decided to involve NGOs to provide comprehensive health care to 12 lakh students in all Delhi Government Schools. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that 15 NGOs have been

  • 14/12/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Fluoride causes panic in Nagaon, UNICEF starts dist-wise campaign

  The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) and the UNICEF along with technical help from Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation, New Delhi, undertook a joint action programme in

  • 12/12/2001

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Health

• 'Infected dogs behind jaundice-like disease'

  Clearing the clouds over spread of Leptospirosis, professors of College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Mhow, Madhya Pradesh on Monday confirmed that the carries of the disease are

  • 06/12/2001

  • Free Press (Indore)
  • • Health

• Polio drive finds saviour in quacks

  The West Bengal Government stopped short of inviting them to a meeting at Writer's Buildings, but quacks in at least three districts are being involved in a renewed drive to eradicate polio. However,

  • 12/12/2001

  • • Health