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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Cabinet asked to make people-friendly changes in Drug Act
A consumer protection watchdog has asked the Pakistan cabinet to ensure that the proposed amendments in the Drug Act 1976 were public-friendly. In a letter to the various ministers of the military
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Efforts urged to check population growth
Pakistan is ranked the 6th most populous country and the situation has assumed an alarming proportion and warrants our immediate concerted efforts to maintain sway over the population growth rate.
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World meat demand to rise, animal disease fears - FAO
Global meat consumption is forecast to grow by two percent annually until the end of 2015 as the population and incomes rise and more people move to cities, the United Nations food body said. But the
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More home dialysis for kidney patients
Hundreds more kidney patients are likely to be provided with dialysis machines so they can carry out their own treatment at home, under proposals from a government watchdog. The do-it-yourself regime
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Samsung introduces range of 'health' TVs
After microwave ovens and refrigerators, it's now colour TV sets with health benefits. Samsung India Electronics Ltd. has launched its range of Bio Colour television in the Indian Market. According
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UN says Aids strategy will focus of earth summit
The United Nations said that finding strategies to combat the HIV/Aids pandemic ravaging southern Africa would be central to the agenda of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which opens in
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Cannabis used in new cancer technology
Placing cannabis in rectal passages was once a pastime restricted to smugglers sneaking drugs through customs. But a small Oxford based biotechnology company plans to change that -by developing an
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China's top AIDS activist Missing; arrest is suspected
China's most prominent AIDS activist has disappeared and is believed to have been detained by the police, relatives and human rights groups say. The activist, Wan Yanhai, is a former Chinese health
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Wyeth Lederle gets ministry nod to sell leukemia drug
Wyeth Lederle (India) has received the environment ministry's go-ahead to market its genetically modified drug for treating relapse cases of CD 33 positive acute myeloid leukemia. The drug, branded
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Roche sells vitamins unit to DSM for $2.2 billion
Dutch chemicals group DSM agreed to buy the vitamins and fine chemicals business of Switzerland's Roche for $2.2 billion cash, making the Dutch firm the world's biggest vitamin maker in one swoop.