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
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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.
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Plan to make world polio free by 2005
By 2005, the world would be 'polio free' with only 275 cases reported as on August 23, this year. There were 254 cases in India out of which 203 were from Uttar Pradesh alone, said Rotary
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5 More drinking water samples fail purity test
Five more samples of drinking water taken by the Municipal Corporation have failed purity test and have been declared unfit for consumption. The Municipal Corporation launched a drive to collect
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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
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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
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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
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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,