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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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
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Analysts count the cost of Aids as it hits the money-earning generation
The Black Death, which killed around a quarter of Europe's population in the 14th century, ushered in the end of feudalism. And in the opinion of some economists, it actually boosted the region's
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Consensus lacking for AIDS fund
Representatives of countries contributing to a fund to support the global struggle against AIDS and other diseases have met in Paris but made little progress toward assuring money for the health
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'Water memory' theory revival boosts homeopathy
The emergence of homoeopathic medicines as over-the-counter (OTC) products in India coincides with the presentation of a paper by Swiss chemist Dr Louis Rey. The paper, which is to be published in
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Deaths blamed on malnutrition
Medical and Health Minister Kodela Sivaprasada Rao clarified that the death of 116 children in the Andhra Pradesh state was not due to any mysterious disease but
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How to stop TB from killing people living with HIV
As if AIDS were not deadly enough, it's getting deadlier with the connivance of tuberculosis. An estimated one third of the 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide are co-infected with
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'Use of biotech products to see big growth by 2007'
Nutraceuticals, high-quality seeds, herbal drugs, software-driven bioinformatics and newer vaccines and diagnostics are the exciting prospects of the applications of biotechnology, especially in the
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Diarrhoea toll up to ten
Diarrhoea continued to takes it toll in the district with the death of the third child of a family in Karoli village. The three deaths in the family occurred within a week. With this, the seasonal
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Garlic is gold for cos, health for you
For pharma companies across the globe, Garlic has been a wonderful nugget of gold. Years ago, they took the traditional home remedy off kitchen shelves, wrung vital juices like allicin out of it and
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Incidence of water-borne diseases high: minister
About 40 to 50 per cent of the beds in the hospitals are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases, the Pakistan minister of state for environment, Maj Tahir Iqbal said. Briefing