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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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    • India
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• 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

• Dengue claims 24 lives so far

  Fifty-four more people were afflicted with dengue fever in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and some other places in last 24 hours, raising the total number of dengue patients in the country to 1576 official

  • 13/12/2001

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Health

• Trial setback for cancer drug hurts AstraZeneca share price

  British drug company AstroZeneca PLC said an important latestage trail of its experimental cancer drug Iressa was disappointing - a report that sent the company's shares tumbling. AstraZeneca said

  • 20/12/2001

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

• Waterborne diseases spread in flood hit Makwanpur villages

  Various types of diseases including diarrhoea and typhoid have spread in an epidemic proportion at the remote Kakada Village Development Committee (VDC) of Makwanpur district (Nepal). Impurity in

  • 14/12/2001

  • • Health

• Potential ally against anthrax emerges

  Scientists have taken the first steps toward fighting anthrax streptococcus and other infectious bacteria with virus-produced enzymes, exuding the targeted microbes without apparent side effects or

  • 23/12/2001

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

• Banned gutka vanishes from Mumbai shops, now delivered at doorstep

  It is difficult but not impossible to get hands on a packet of gutka in Maharashtra if addicts pay double the price. After the State government's ban on the manufacture and sale of gutka, sachets the

  • 27/12/2001

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Panacea will launch combination vaccines

  Healthcare company Panacea biotech on Monday said it plans to launch a slew of combination drug vaccines including one for treatment of Hepatitis B and Diphtheria by next year and world hike

  • 27/12/2001

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Health