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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Japan called on to help fund U.N. AIDS-TB fight
Japan faced a wave of calls to contribute to a U.N. global fund to fight HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria at a meeting here to support the fund, Japanese government officials said. Deputy Foreign
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Udalguri subdiv hit by epidemic diseases
The remote countryside of Udalguri subdivision is at present under the grip of epidemics as the deadly malaria, jaundice, pneumonea like fever, diarrhoea have become common diseases of the villagers
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BMC flayed for turning blind eye to health hazards at Kurla
Close on the heels of Opposition Congress attacking the ruling Sena-BJP combine in BMC, a Sena corporator blamed the civic administration for turning a blind eye on the health problems in the Kurla
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Alarm at UK's vaccine shortage
Plans for an emergency vaccine production centre at Porton Down in Wiltshire, already rejected once by the government, are to be reconsidered following stinging criticism of Britain's preparedness
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Health authorities to conduct viral study
Sri Lankan health authorities will conduct a viral study on the impending viral flu which is fast spreading specially among schoolchildren. The study is to be conducted by the Medical Research
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Congress asks Babu to quit for failing to check fever deaths
The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee sought the resignations of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and Health Minister Kodela Sivaprasada Rao for 'failing to contain the killer viral fever' which
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Unusual symptoms in viral flu, children main victims
A viral flu doing the rounds these days was described by health authorities as showing "Unusual symptoms" in patients, increasing the number of patients seeking OPD treatment at the Lady Ridgeway
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Hair-loss drug prevents prostate cancer
A drug used to combat male baldness and shrink benign prostate glands also prevents prostate cancer, says a new Pakistan government-sponsored study. Men who took finasteride for seven years had a 25
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Mysterious fever identified
Prof AK Datta, senior paediatrician at Kalavati Saran children's hospital, New Delhi, identified the mysterious disease, which claimed the lives of many children in Andhra Pradesh state as 'acute
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Arsenic in Kolkata water
The most disturbing element in Kolkata's water supply has been the presence of high content of arsenic in water. The irony is that the presence of arsenic has been noted in the water that comes from