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
Health
-
Don't coerce on 2-child norm, Centre tells states
Following a series of population-based incentives and disincentives announced by several state governments, Union minister for health and family welfare Shatrughan Sinha has written to all chief
-
Target date set for leprosy eradication
The West Bengal state government has set December 2005 as the target date to eradicate leprosy in the four districts of Bankura, Birbhum, Midnapor West and Purulia where prevalence of the disease is
-
Water borne diseases rising in city
With the setting up of monsoon in Bhopal, patients complaining of high fever, vomiting and loose motions have started thronging the private nursing homes, clinics and even government hospitals have
-
Epidemic toll in UK goes up to six
A sixth person who contracted Legionaries' disease in England had died, the police said on Wednesday. In northwestern town of Barrow-in-Furness, more than 130 people have fallen ill with the disease,
-
Proper drug storage can save 70pc of health budget: Kasi
About 70 per cent of the allocated budget for the health sector can be saved and health services and facilities extended to majority of the people if facilities for storing medicines are improved.
-
2087 tubewels' water polluted by arsenicosis in Pabna
Some 2087 tubewells in one of the unions of the district were marked red prohibiting use of their water for high level of arsenicosis. A recent survey conducted by UNICEF, Dhaka Community Hospital
-
Haryana to focus on better health services
The Haryana government will spend Rs 407 crores on providing improved health services during the current financial year, according to the Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala. Mr. Chautala was
-
ISM submits Rs 320-crore project to Health Ministry
The Directorate of Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM), Kozhikode, Kerala, has submitted a Rs 320 crore project to the Union Health ministry with the aim of reinvigorating the indigenous systems of
-
'Misuse of ultrasound banned'
The premise that the anti-female foeticide law debars pregnant women form availing any ultrasound facilities is not correct, the Union Health Ministry will state in its reply to the Supreme Court's
-
Arunachal move to fight mysterious fever
The Arunachal Pradesh State Government has opened an emergency medical camp at Ngopok village in East Siang district for treating patients complaining of mysterious fever which reportedly claimed