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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Serum Institute to launch DPT, Hepatitis B vaccines by year-end
The Pune-based vaccine firm, Serum Institute of India, is to launch a quadruple vaccine Diphtheria, Tetanus and whole-cell Pertussis vaccine (DTP) and Hepatitis B by December, 2003. According to Dr
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Arrest the decline
The adverse child sex ratio in certain northern districts of Kerala is cause for concern. While the average sex ratio for the State as a whole is favourable to girls, the ratio in the districts of
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3,000 children died due to poor sanitation in India everyday'
Poor sanitation in India leads to the death of more than 3000 children every day. Most of these deaths are easily avoidable, said Henk Van Norden, Chief WES, UNICEF, on Sanitation, Hygiene, Child
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Death throes of a crippler
On Oct 26, 1977, in Somalia, a young man came down with a rash. It was smallpox. But the fellow, who survived, was remarkable, for he had the planet's last case of naturally occurring small pox.
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5,000 hit by fluoride poisoning in 15 Karbi Anglong villages
Fluoride poisoning has caused havoc in the Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts of Assam. Thousands of villagers have been affected, many of them crippled for life, by drinking water containing
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School in the front line against AIDS
President George W. Bush's new AIDS initiative has heightened expectations of a more robust global effort to combat the devastating threat of the AIDS pandemic. Yet there is still woefully little
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Strife, floating people push AIDS in NE'
The porous international borders have been providing easy entry to illicit drugs into the North-east, and on account of the region's proximity to the drug route, the initial mode of transmission of
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Arsenic-tainted well undergoes ministry checks
The Japan Environment Ministry began checking a well in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, whose water was found to contain a high level of arsenic. Workers use radar to check areas near a well in Ibaraki
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Mosquitoes give Assam medicos a torrid time
The Indo-Bhutan and Indo-Bangladesh borders are not only infested by insurgent cadres but mosquitoes as well. In fact, mosquitoes are giving State Health Department officials a torrid time.So far 12
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Chlorine could be asthma risk
Chlorine used to disinfect indoor swimming pools could be one of the causes of a surge in childhood asthma in the past few decades. According to a study, the suspected culprit is trichloramine, a