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
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Family planning onus on men
With male participation being as low as two per cent, the Union health ministry had decided to hold mega camps in various cities to motivate men to come forward for the reversible sterlisation
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Heart ailments on a high in Punjab
The number of heart-patients is on an all time high in Punjab. And if experts are to be believed, more and more are Punjabis are falling prey to various kinds of heart-ailments as a result of their
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WHO gets more powers; Beijing reports 4 deaths
The World Health Organization's 192 members agreed today to gtrant it sweeping new powers to respond to international health threats lke SARS and bio-terrorist attacks. Under a resolution approved by
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AIDS with a figleaf
Ms Sushma Swaraj wants to put a little figleaf on the Indian AIDS prevention programme. All the talk about condoms that HIV/AIDS breeds discomfits her and her pure-souled ministry of health. Indian
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Rs 400 cr. for health services
While the Haryana Government has earmarked Rs 400 crores for promotion of health services this fiscal, the Central Government has earmarked Rs 15 crores up to September 2004 for the sector investment
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Bush launches $15-b. plan to combat AIDS in Africa
Citing " a moral duty to act' against the spread of AIDS, the U.S. President George W> Bush today launched a 15-billion-dollar emergency plan to fight the disease in Africa and the
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Increase in cough, cold and fever in city raises concern
Increasing number of patients, children and adults, queue up outside the clinics and hospitals in Chennai with symptoms of severe throat pain, cold and fever that extends for a period little more
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Fluorosis-hit people seek safe drinking water
Deadly fluorosis has deprived a large section of population in Karbi Anglong of their childhood and youth. Drinking water in many parts of Karbi Anglong hill district particularly in Tekalangjun,
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Beijing imposes new fines for hindering SARS drive
Authorities aiming to wipe out SARS in Beijing say they will fine people who evade health checkpoints or illegally enter quarantine areas. There has been a sharp drop in the numbers of new cases in
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Cadila to file seven drug master files with US FDA
Cadila Pharmaceuticals (CPL) has decided to strengthen its international operations and is planning to file seven more drug master files (DMFs) with US FDA for selling its active pharmaceutical