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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Concern over infant deaths in Maharashtra
Concerned at media reports of deaths of tribal children due to malnutrition in Thane district, the Maharashtra Government admitted that most deaths were due to low weight childbirths to teenaged
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Oxygen shortage since last week
There have been very few oxygen cylinders in the BC Roy children's hospital (West Bengal) for the whole last week. Inquiries revealed that there had been acute oxygen shortage since last week.
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Minister of sponsored walks
The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is facing a medical crisis but its health minister Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup has a plan. He wants to set up a British style national health service, and to raise the
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If they were your kids...
It's the same horror story of the avoidable death of children and of the administration in shameless denial. Officially speaking, 14 children have died in tow days in a well-known hospital in
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Nodal Govt. agencies sing different tunes
When it comes to stabilizing the population, the signals emanating from the Government are confusing. Two nodal agencies are singing different tunes on implementation of the population stabilisation
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Polio cases rising in U.P.
There has been an alarming resurgence in polio cases in Uttar Pradesh. If not checked, the situation could have serious consequences. The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Shatrughan
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'Focus on disease prevention'
India has the dubious record of having a "very high" percentage of people, especially in rural areas, who suffer from easily preventable communicable diseases such as malaria, jaundice, tuberculosis
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City in virus grip, 2,000 ill in 4 days
Many localities in the twin cities in Andhra Pradesh are in the grip of a viral attack with nearly 2,000 cases of viral fever, typhoid and other infectious diseases reported in four days. Patients in
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Private water is bad and expensive
Private companies supplying thousands of water tankers seem to be exposing people to health hazards by supplying substandard drinking water in deficient areas, even as the government machinery
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Children death not unusual : Govt
The West Bengal government sought to downplay the death of 15 children in the state run B C Roy Memorial Children's Hospital in the face of public outcry even as one more child died. In the past one