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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AIDS turns rural China into a land of destitute orphans
Neighbors remember when young Dong Yangnan was a "xiao pangzi" , or little fatty, the kind of husky, moon-checked child that Chinese grandmothers adore. Today at 12, he is orphaned, strick thin and
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Glaxo sues over stolen bacteria
The world's No.2 drug maker GlaxoSmithKline said it was taking legal action in the US against Novartis, claiming the Swiss firm is using a stolen bacteria to make copies of a GSK has also asked the
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Bad air causes sniffles among HK children - survey
Nearly 40 percent of children in Hong Kong suffered from a respiratory disease in recent years which experts have linked to the territory's worsening air pollution, a survey has found. The results,
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Anti-mosquito sprayplanned
Sindh (Pakistan) Chief Secretary K. B. Rind has asked the secretaries of health and local government to ensure concrete measures to help the people against seasonal diseases and insanitation. At a
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Cholera kills over 1,000
Cholera killed at least 1,000 persons in Malawi during the nine months to June this year, a government official said on Friday. Health Ministry official Habib Somanje said the deaths in the
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New population policy on anvil
The Punjab Government will soon prepare a population policy on the pattern followed by Haryana. Mr. Ramesh Chandra Dogra, Health and Family Welfare Minister, Punjab said the formulation of a
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Cancer risk for first generation mobile users
Long term users of some first generation mobile phone face an up to 80 per cent greater risk of developing brain tumours than those who did not use the phones, a new Swedish study
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Crackdown on illegal nursing homes
The Delhi state government has decided to come down heavily on the 1500 nursing homes operating illegally in the city. The owners of nursing homes operating without registration will now be liable to
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Dengue in Mexico
Officials on Friday confirmed 24 cases of dengue and two of the more dangerous hemorrhagic form of the disease in Mexico state, which borders Mexico city. Health Officials were spraying mosquito
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Bone disease spreading among children: experts
Rickets is on the rise in the province mainly because of a lack of proper food and sunlight for children, paediatricians said. "It is a disease of children caused by the lack of good food that makes