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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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• New Yorkers fuming over smoking ban

  As bartender Claran Hegarty mixed cocktails at the Times Square watering hole Langan's it wasn't the city's sweltering summer that got him heated, but a plan to ban smoking from all local bars and

  • 22/12/2001

  • • Health

• Govt plans anti-smoking campaign

  The West Bengal government will organise a two day sensitization programme against chewing tobacco and smoking, director of health services, Dr Prabhakar Chatterjee said. A report by the Centre says

  • 21/12/2001

  • Statesman (Kolkata)
  • • Health

• Children's lungs to be mapped

  The West Bengal environment department, for the first time in the country, is going to map the respiratory health of school children across the state. The project has been undertaken to provide a

  • 21/12/2001

  • Statesman (Kolkata)
  • • Health

• Push for tobacco ban with MLAs

  The West Bengal Government is going to launch a campaign against smoking and chewing tobacco with the elected representatives of the people. Health minister Suryakanta Mishra, industry minister

  • 21/12/2001

  • • Health

• City continues to receive turbid water

  The incessant supply of muddy water to Karachi city from the Indus source has become a major source of vomiting, nausea and severe abdominal pain among the Karachiites , besides badly affecting the

  • 20/12/2001

  • • Health

• Genes associated with aging of retina identified

  Aging of human retina is accompanied by distinct changes in gene expression say researchers of the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Centre. Using commercially available DNA slides, a team of

  • 22/12/2001

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• New vaccine promises protection from HIV

  AIDS researchers reported on Monday they had designed a vaccine that they believe may do what no other vaccine has done before - protect people from infection with the

  • 21/12/2001

  • • Health

• 'Public Health Act needs more teeth'

  Even as the Chennai Corporation and the Public Health department intend to go in for a major 'malaria eradication' programme in the Chennai city, a 10 year move to amend the Public Health Act is yet

  • 22/12/2001

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Health

• Directives for treatment of dengue patients

  The Bangladesh government directed the Directorate of Health to make adequate arrangement for the treatment of dengue patients at every hospital of the country to face the current situation.

  • 05/12/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• Bangla dengue toll 25

  Bangladesh on Tuesday asked doctors on leave to return to duty immediately to fight dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that has killed 25 people and infected more than 1,800 in the past four

  • 14/12/2001

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Health