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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Ruling on two-child norm criticised
The All India Democratic Women's Association has opposed the Supreme Court judgement on the two child norm for contesting panchayat elections and demanded that Parliament reassert the basic principle
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Testing for prostate cancer
It seems hard to believe, but a widely used screening test for prostate cancer in men is probably missing a vast majority of tumors. An analysis published in The New England Journal of Medicine
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Ad race is escalating on cholesterol drugs
Drug companies are escalating the advertising race in one of the industry's hottest categories: cholesterol-lowering drugs. Entering an already crowded field, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals is preparing
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Chandipura returns from the cold to kill
Contrary to reports that Japanese encephalitis was to blame for the death of 250 children in north Andhra Pradesh and central eastern Maharashtra, scientists at Pune's National Virology Institute
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Mid-day meals in schools a must, says Amartya
If the votaries of the mid-day meal scheme were looking for a shot in the arm, they got it from Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and actress-activist Shabana Azmi. Sen was there, despite a busy schedule,
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Victoria deep tubewells yield arsenic
The civic authorities have sealed the deep tubewells at Victoria Memorial Hall in Calcutta after all the test reports from the laboratories of the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta Municipal
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US to speed up system for new drug approval
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to speed up its medicines approval process to help pharmaceutical industry productivity and get new treatments to patients more quickly. The change,
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Forty students fall prey to mystery fever
Around 40 students of a higher primary school are reported to be suffering from an epidemic fever at Palavalli in Pavagada taluk in Karnataka. Health department officials visited the village and took
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India's population growth levelling off: UNPF
The population growth rate in southern regions of India is levelling off the approaching a rate similar to the rates in some European countries, but population growth is 'soaring' in other parts of
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Delhi's missing little girls
Despite all publicity, the seminars and workshops and public interest litigation and legislation, the sad fact is that more and more Indian families are doing away with female