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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US "monkeypox" cases first in Western hemisphere
U.S. health officials were investigating the first outbreak in the Western hemisphere of the "monkeypox" virus, a smallpox-like disease spread by rodents and monkeys that rarely is fatal in humans
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NGO extending service in health sector
Dr Ambedkar Mission, Assam, an NGO based at Changsari has been extending major health care services to the downtrodden classes in the greater Chandsari, Dhopatari, Borka, Athiaboi, Bonmaja, Malong,
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US monkeypox cases grow to 33
Health officials in three US states tried to track down pet prarie dogs believed spreading a smallpox like illness that may have infected 33 people. Only six of them were being treated in hospitals.
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Herbal portal launched
The Chennai-based Nandini Consultancy Centre has launched a Web-based interactive portal, "with a view to initiating, promoting and building herbal movement in India". The portal,
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State considers letting private labs test drugs
The Karnataka State Government will encourage setting up of eight to ten private drug testing labs to check proliferation of spurious drugs, Health and Family Welfare Minister Kagodu Thimmappa said.
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Officials to answer to cut fruits sale
In the wake of growing incidence of cholera and gastroenteritis in the Capital, health minister, Dr AK Walia announced that action will be initiated against all such deputy health officials in whose
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India's missing girls
With the stress slowly shifting from family planning to family welfare to reproductive and child health, the red triangle era has faded from memory. The new 90s vision has it that the small family
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Task force on environmental health
The Ministry of Environment and Forests constituted a task force on environmental health which would look into various aspects and formulate "implementable plans." It will soon come out with a
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Search in pond for anthrax clues
The FBI began draining a pond in a search for evidence that the person who carried out the deadly anthrax-by-mail attacks in 2001 filled the envelopes with the deadly spores under water for his own
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Glass Act: Disposable syringes disposed off
The Union Health Ministry is sufficiently disillusioned now with 'recycled' disposable syringes in the market to advise use of sterilised glass syringes. The needle of suspicion behind this turn of