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
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
Food and drinks sold by some establishments on the Marina beach in Tamil Nadu were declared "unfit for human consumption" by local health authorities after tests confirmed the presence of coliform
The director general, Health Services, Sindh, (Pakistan) Dr Qadir Bux Qadwani, has said that following publication of reports regarding the death of some people due to cerebral malaria , he visited
The death rate from SARS may be significantly higher than health officials had thought, up to 55 percent in people 60 and older, and up to 13.2 percent in younger people, the first major
The health of thousands of people continues to be put at risk by substandard housing, the British Medical Association said. Too many families are temporarily placed in overcrowded bed and breakfast
The World Health Organisation said that the Sars outbreak in China was still out of control, despite increasingly tough quarantine measures. Gro Harlem Brundtland, its Norwegian director general,
In an experiment that may have implications for cancer treatment, American and Spanish scientists have used the common cold virus to eradicate brain tumours in mice. They report today in the Journal
China deployed communist party cadres and investigators to monitor the spread of SARS while WHO decided to send a tem to a province surrounding Beijing to prevent a rural outbreak of the epidemic as
Britain said it would back calls for international patent regimes to be tailored to ease the burden on poorer countries from the high costs of Western medicines and crop seeds. The government's trade
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is in danger of running out of money, a new U.S. government report warns. The impending shortfall is likely to put pressure on Europe and Japan
China said that the number of Sars cases in Beijing, the worst affected place in the world, may soon begin falling but that the deadly virus could wreak havoc in the vast hinterlands. Last figures