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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New drug may lead to one-stop diabetes pill
Researchers said they had found a new class of drugs that might attack diabetes on more than one front
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Malaria situation in Provorim 'alarming': locals
The Povorim Residents Welfare Association (PRWA) has voiced concern over the increasing number of malaria cases in Porvorim, Goa. Also, the accumulated garbage has added to the
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Aids activists barrack Chirac after conference leaves fund facing shortfall
President Jacques Chirac of France was barracked by angry Aids activists as he stood to make a speech at the close of an Aids conference which left the UN- sponsored Global Fund to Fight Aids,
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A miserly response to a global emergency
The donor meeting in Paris on behalf of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria definitely had its surreal aspects. The chairmanship of the Global Fund board is held by Tommy
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BHEL bags safety award
The Southern Power Sector Division (PS-SR) of Bharat Heavy Electricals ltd (BHEL) has been awarded the
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Call to give TB control programme a boost
Joint Secretary in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Deepak Gupta underlined the need for the effective implementation of TB control programme in Uttar Pradesh. The Joint Secretary was
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Check that booming billion now
We spend 0.6% of our budget on health while China spends 2%, Bangladesh 1.6%. Since healthcare is directly related to family planning, it is no surprise that we continue to multiply our malnourished
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Obese Americans may sue McDonald's
McDonald's can face compensation demands of between $50 billion and $100 bn from obese and over weight Americans, according to a leading US class action
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WHO chief: SARS lessons to improve health issues
Warning that the world's public health care systems face a crisis of neglect, the new head of the WHO, Dr Jong Wook Lee, says he intends to leverage the SARS crisis to stress crucial health issues.
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Villagers catch malignant tumours than fish here
Cancer is not contagious. But in the little fishing village in Kolak, on the edge of a highly active industrial zone of Gujarat, cancer has touched epidemic proportions. This village of 3,700 people