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• 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

  • 01/01/2029

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Health
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    • Traditional Knowledge
    • India
    • CSE

• Divya Jyoti rural health campaign from Feb 8

  As part of the Bhagidari schme, the Delhi government and a voluntary group, Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan, will organize Divya Jyoti Rural Health Campaign from February 8 to 10. Under this campaign, a

  • 04/02/2003

  • • Health

• Aims comes out with neuropsychological battery

  The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has come out with a comprehensive

  • 04/02/2003

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• RML doctor bags WHO project

  DR J M Hans, a senior ENT specialist at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RMLH), has bagged the World Health Organisation (WHO) project on prevention of deafness in the national capital region. Under this

  • 04/02/2003

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• Global Fund grants $130 m to tackle AIDS

  Given that the Global Fund (GF) for AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria had almost passed India by in its first round, thanks to disbursement glitches, the second round of allocation seems to have

  • 04/02/2003

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• 'AIDS must be notified disease'

  The government should declare AIDS a notified disease in order to make it mandatory for all affected persons to report it to a nodal agency set up for the purpose, a senior scientist said in Jaipur

  • 04/02/2003

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Health

• NE to get benefits of Telemedicine

  Subject to cooperation from the State Governments of North East region, the Apollo Hospitals Group is all prepared to make Telemedicine and Tele-consultation a household matter in the region that too

  • 31/01/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Health

• AIDS menace looms large in Nagaland

  Incidence of HIV infection among intravenous drug users (IVDU) has registered a declining trend but the ante-natal cases and the spread of the dreaded disease through sex is on the rise in

  • 31/01/2003

  • Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
  • • Health

• Tele-medicine conference in B'lore, Kolkata

  A two-day live national conference on tele-medicine, the "Indian Conclave on Medical Aspects of Telemedicine' (ICMAT) is being organised simultaneously in Bangalore and Kolkata on February 1 and 2 by

  • 31/01/2003

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Health

• Rejuvination by Periyar, the latest health mantra

  Aluva has all the charms of a traditional health resort, blessed with the presence of Periyar, a river with medicinal values. With dignataries from various parts of the country and abroad visiting

  • 27/01/2003

  • • Health

• Doctors debate use of gum to fight nicotine addiction

  Smokers in Mumbai are being wooed by a new antidote

  • 03/02/2003

  • • Health