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
Health
-
RTI, HIV awareness programme in progress in State
A family health awareness campaign (FHAC) launched in Assam from May 5 to June 10, as part of the ongoing national programme, with the objective of generating awareness about Reproductive Tract
-
Mysterious fever stalks B'lore suburb
About 120 of the 541 persons in Sasuvehalli village, in the outskirts of Bangalore City, are suffering from a mysterious and contagious fever. The villagers are suffering from the disease for the
-
Substantial steps
The six-fold increase in the number of new cases of polio has prompted the World Health Organisation to adopt a major change in its strategy to combat the disease. Henceforth, WHO and its partners in
-
Australia protein find targets cotton bugs, drugs
Australian scientists have isolated an unusually shaped protein that they say could produce major gains for multi-billion dollar-a-year crops and a breakthrough in pharmaceutical applications. First
-
Anti-tobacco convention adopted
The World Health Organisation's decision making assembly gave preliminary approval to a landmark anti tobacco convention, with speaker after speaker declaring that it will save millions of lives. A
-
US finds a cure for radiation sickness
US military officials are expressign enthusiasm about an experimental drug - HE-2100 - that they say could protect the health of troops, police officers and emergency medical personnel who respond to
-
WHO doubts decline of SARS cases
The World Health Organisation cast doubt on a sharp decline in the number of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) cases in China in recent weeks as Taiwan's crisis deepened with mass resignation
-
Biocon to start clinical trials for diabetic drug
Biocon India Ltd, the Bangalore-based pharma-biotech company, is planning to try out application of mycophenolate mofetil popularly known as CellCept, an immunosuppressive drug, to treat diabetic
-
Lack of aid affects N Korea children
Because of a shortage of foreign aid, school children more than five years of age and elderly people in North Korea have not been receiving food rations, a ranking U.N. officer said. "The situation
-
US agrees to back tobacco treaty
The United States indicated that it would back a global anit-tobacco treaty due to be adopted at the World Health Organisation's annual assembly this week.