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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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
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Foreign drugs urged for Alzheimer's
A Japan health ministry research group has come out with the nation's first medical guidelines on Alzheimer's disease, recommending the government allow pharmaceutical firms to introduce two
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'Pizza helps keep cancer away'
A study revealed that people who ate pizza once or several times a week were less likely to get cancer than those who chose not to eat it at all. The eating habits of over 3,000 Italians suffering
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Food firms on notice as war against fat goes global
The world economy may be slumping, but there is conspicuous growth in at least one area: waistlines. In Germany, every third child under age of 12 and every fifth teenager is overweight. In Greece,
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Congenital heart defect gene identified
Scientists have identified a third gene that can cause congenital heart defects, a leading cause of death in newborns. A malfunctioning version of the gene called GATA-4, can lead to defects in the
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Landfill sites turn killing fields
An increasing number of pregnant women in the industrial belt between Vapi and Ankaleswar, at the Southern end of Gujarat's famed
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Charity targets 'forgotten' diseases
The leading medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, is launching a new initiative to invest money in treatments for neglected diseases which affect more than 500 million people worldwide every
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Health experts demand ban on Asbestos manufacturing
Several lakh factory workers have contracted lung cancer after inhaling ultra-fine asbestos fibre for decades. Now, health experts have demanded that the Government should build a concrete framework