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
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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
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Paris pulls ineffective' drugs from claims list
The French government said patients would no longer be able to claim reimbursement for 84 drugs judged to be ineffective, highlighting its determination to tackle inefficiencies in the country's
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Gender bias even in medical treatment of infants
Baby girls in the country are more likely to die owing to illnesses, which are preventable, and inexplicable causes, as against baby boys, says a study highlighting the society's gender bias. A study
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Ganga Ram hospital now research organisation
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, has accorded recognition to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital as a "Research organisation". "This recognition will give an impetus to
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Shocking apathy
Nothing underlines the gross inadequacy of India's public healthcare system better than periodic reports of mysterious-as well as familiar-diseases breaking out on a scale approximating the epidemic,
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Andhra 'resorts' to tourism, not TB cure
In a bid to develop a tourist resort in a 313-acre land at Anantagiri Hills in Vikarabad in Ranga Reddy district, the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC) wishes to remove a
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Death Pills
Three recent developments have helped focus afresh this country's attention on the growing menace of spurious drugs. Earlier this year, the RA Mashelkar expert committee was formed to recommend
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Kerala homoeopaths offer to treat Andhra viral fever
Claiming that homoeopathy can provide cure to the epidemic viral fever in Andhra Pradesh which has claimed over 100 lives, the institution of homoeopaths, Kerala, appealed to the Andhra Pradesh
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MCD ties up with NGOs on health centres
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi initiated parntership with NGOs for running health centres in the city. The first health centre to be run by an NGO in Delhi was inaugurated in slum and JJ cluster