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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Kochi set to become country's first blood literate city
Kochi is all set to become the first Blood Literate City in the country as the Corporation of Cochin, Kochi chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Blood Bank and Government Health Department
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State in the grip of epidemics
The Kerala State is fast getting caught in the grip of epidemics with the cases of malaria and dengue fever in the last three months surpassing the total number of cases in 2002. Till day in the
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16 died of dengue fever: Sankaran
Health Minister P. Sankaran said that 16 persons had died of dengue fever in Kerala State during the past few weeks. Replying to a submission raised by Opposition leader V.S.Achuthanandan in the
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Gastro outbreak suspected in Vadodara district
Reports of a 63-year-old woman, suspected to have died of gastroenteritis, has put the Vadodara district in Gujarat, health authorities on high alert. Even as fear of an outbreak of gastroenteritis
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Health Ministry upset over departmental malaise
The Union Health Ministry is frustrated with poor cooperation from other departments in its effort to streamline conservation and harvest of medicinal plants. At the third Board meeting on Saturday,
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Health goods post healthy growth in direct selling: Study
Health is proving to be wealth for yet another industry. The Indian Direct Sellers Association (IDSA), the representative organisation of organised direct selling companies in the country, has now
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Babies at risk as hospital uses impure water
The Bangalore City Corporation run Vijaynagar Maternity Hospital continues to use nitrate-contaminated borewell water, despite warnings from the mines and geology department not to use it for potable
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9 more die in Andhra viral toll touches 100
Nine more children died of viral fever taking the toll to almost 100 in the past three weeks. Health minister Dr Kodela Sivaprasad Rao has declared that the virus, now established to be Japanese
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Scheme should go on
It is indeed lamentable that by coincidence or otherwise a series of reports of school children taking ill have come from different parts of the State soon after the well-intended and highly
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Mystery disease: Pune institute says it's influenza
The National Institute of Virology, Pune has informed the state government that 16 out of 30 blood samples collected from children affected by the "mystery disease" in Murshidabad has tested positive