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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Govt allots land for CCMB biosafety lab
The Andhra Pradesh Government has agreed to give 5-acres of land adjacent to the upcoming office complex of the transnational corporation, GE, near Uppal for the national Biocontainment facility. The
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Virus claims two more lives
Two more victims of a mystery disease died and the Health Secretary acknowledged that Hong Kong was facing a medical predicament like never before. Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS has now
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Philippine population still spiraling upward
The population in this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country has doubled in the last half-century, to 80 million and could double again in less time than that. Under the influence of the powerful
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Bad medicine: Sacks full of fake antibiotics seized
Spurious antibiotics worth more than Rs 5 lakh were seized by the northwest district police last evening. The two antibiotics have been identified as Ampoxin-500 and Sporidex-500. Ampoxin is usually
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Illness outbeak appears larger than China says
China's response to a mysterious respiratory illness continues to alarm scientists, amid disclosures that more than half of the recent cases world-wide trace back to within its orders and that the
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Centre sponsored water testing lab fails to take off
Even after eight months of Union government's sanction of funds for upgradation of health infrastructure by setting up a laboratory in Ludhiana, the Punjab state government has failed to give a
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Concerns grow over health of EMAS scheme
Fears are growing over the long-term sustainability of the EU's EMAS environmental management scheme as the number of participating organisations continues to slide. Backers of the standard are
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Spread of HIV/AIDS in country feared
So far as AIDS is concerned, Pakistan is a low-prevalence and high-risk country, according to the Sindh and National AIDS Control Programmes. It is deemed a low-prevalence country because until
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'Diseases, lack of health care system giving rise to poverty'
A glaring fact, which has yet to enter the official vocabulary and is absent even in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) , is the role of high prevalence of disease coupled with poor quality
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Procedure may save women in third world from cancer
In African hospitals, says Dr. Paul D. Blumenthal of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the cervical cancer wards can be found by smell alone. Women come in when their cancers are bleeding