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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70 per cent deaths of newborns preventable
Speakers at a workshop said that the government should take concerted efforts to check neonatal mortality rate as Pakistan ranked sixth among the countries with highest rate of the incidence. The
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Plan would include trade-offs
President Bush is offering a cure for seniors who want help paying for medicine, but only if they go along with something they may not want: managed care and its cost-cutting limitations. In his
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WTC rescue/recovery workers have health woes
More than half of the rescue and recovery workers who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York had health problems related to their efforts more than 10 months later, according to early
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Transplant patient caught donor's allergy
A man who received a liver transplant developed a life-threatening allergy to nuts from his transplant. The liver had come from a 15-year-old boy who died of an allergic reaction to peanuts, doctors
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Saying no to tobacco
The sale of tobacco and tobacco products in the only duty free shop in the country has been banned from January, 2003.The ban was a priority issue in the Ninth
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Health renews fight against HIV/AIDS
With 13 HIV positive cases detected in 2002 alone, the highest annual detection so far, the health department is looking at ways to strengthen its fight against the viral
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Japanese officials identify sixth case of Mad-cow disease
Japan announced its sixth case of mad-cow disease after experts examined samples from a dead cow's brain and spinal cord and confirmed it had been infected by the illness, a Health Ministry spokesman
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Medical check must for foreigner workers in Malaysia
All foreign workers will have to undergo compulsory medical check-ups the moment they enter Malaysia. Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the move was being introduced with immediate
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Spurious drugs trade is rampant in Kashmir
The health sector in Kashmir is faced with the problem of unregulated flow of sub-standard and spurious drugs to 1,800 unregistered medical stores. According to sources, doctors and fake drug
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Infanticide still menace in Andipatti
Perhaps for its star status as the Chief Minister's constituency, Andipatti continues to attract attention, both positive and negative. As the Government and the Theni district administration focus