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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Health boom spurs proliferation of oxygen units
With the domestic market for health products continuing to expand rapidly, appliance vendors are now marketing a range of home-use oxygen units. On March 10, electronics giant Matsushita Electric
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New 'flu' claims 34 lives in China
China dramatically raised the death toll from the new Asian virus yesterday, admitting that it had killed 34 people there so far, including three in Beijing. Singapore, which has quarantined 861
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UN warns of growing public health risk in Iraq
An official of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned this week of risks to public health in Iraq from damage to the environment caused by the war. Pekka Haavisto also voiced
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Wisconsin finds chronic wasting disease in elk
Wisconsin has confirmed its first case of chronic wasting disease in an elk, state agriculture officials said. The illness, which is related to mad cow disease, was discovered in Wisconsin's wild
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CSMMU plan to counter pneumonia
The Department of Medicine at the Chhatrapti Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, has chalked out plans and formulated guidelines for physicians, hospitals and
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Scale up the global fight against tuberculosis
Ten years ago the World Health Organization declared a global emergency to battle the resurgent epidemic of tuberculosis. The interway in coping with the crisis, but
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80 pc tubewells affected with arsenic content in Chougachha
A large number of people in different unions of Chougachha upazila of Jessore district (Bangladesh) have been affected with arsenic-prone diseases. The arsenic contamination in water of tubewells
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Moms sweep dust, leave behind sick babies
Most of the sweepers in Kathmandu Metropolitan City carry their children while sweeping the road and aware that they are exposing their babies to at least air and sound pollution which, the doctors
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Poisoned? Bank on Aiims antidote
Doctors treating poisoning cases need not get panicky anymore. For, help is in sight even in a suspected poisoning case if the antidote required is not easily available. Within the next two weeks,
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Norms to rein in diagnostic labs
The Delhi government has finally begun formulating norms for diagnostic centers and laboratories. Till now no standards had been laid down for them. As a result, large number of labs had sprung in