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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Disturbing questions over abortion pill
They are pills licensed to kill the human foetus up to seven weeks. Marketed as the early option for safe abortion, the Mifepristone and Misoprostol pills, now available with approved physicians all
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Penalised for 'breeding' mosquitoes
A number of government buildings, banks, schools, hospitals and private offices have been prosecuted by Municipal Corporation of Delhi for creating mosquitogenic conditions in their complexes and
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President impressed with MP's medicinal flora
The President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam greatly appreciated the initiatives of Madhya Pradesh for cultivating and conserving of richly available medicinal flora. Chief Minister Digvijay Singh and the
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ISO certificate to Batra's city clinic
The Lucknow unit of Dr. Batra's Positive Health Clinic has been awarded ISO 9001 certification for excellence in providing treatment to its patients. The chairman and managing director of Dr. Batra's
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Botswana watches as economic success is destroyed by AIDS
The sick are up before the sun. A bricklayer, a policeman, two secretaries,a tax collector, an auto mechanic, two soldiers, a water-meter reader and a college student crowd into the old tuberculosis
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Maharashtra has 50m more people in 40 yrs
Maharashtra has added 57 million people to its population in the last 40 years. Though the population in the last ten years has seen a decline, the population growth at the national level is on the
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International medical meet in Goa in October
Goa is to host a prestigious international conference on rheumatic health disease and rheumatic fever from October 6 to 11 this year. The meet, to be held for the first time in a developing country,
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Diarrhoea claims girl's life
A girl has died and more than 60 persons, mostly children, have been affected by Diarrhoea at Saran village, about 25 km from Yamunanagar. Villagers complained of diarrhoea and six of them were
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Cases of fungal disease rise
It was only a few months ago that plague had gripped some parts of Himachal Pradesh. Now, about 30 to 40 people suffering from fungal diseases are pouring into PGI from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal
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Risk of genetic damage
Air Pollution causes genetic damage in the denizens of Kolkata. A path breaking study has shown that compared to rural residents, it is the urban residents who have more respiratory problems. They