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 to review Singapore safety
Specialists from the World Health Organisation are set to go to Singapore to help review laboratory safety after a medical researcher tested positive for SARS,
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Taiwan to WHO: SARS toll 71, not 180
Taiwan insisted that only 71 people had died from SARS on the island and urged the World Health Organisation to change its toll of 180
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Mysterious fever claims three lives
A mysterious fever has broken out in the lower hill areas of the state, claiming three lives and affecting hundreds in the Mandi, Ghumarwin, Arki, Solan and Hamirpur areas of Himachal
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Stringent tests being done to check spurious drugs in state'
The business of spurious and sub-standard drugs is mind-boggling throughout the country and is being viewed seriously in Karnataka by the Drugs Control department. The Delhi High Court, which took
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Stress laid on child nutrition
The Integrated Child Nutrition Programme (ICNP) will be launched under the first phase in 15 districts of Uttar Pradesh jointly by the Medical Health and Family Welfare and Child Development and
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Smoking kills : the butt stops here
Figure available with the World Health Organisatin (WHO) prove that smoking is the single
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Urological disorders rising in children
Faced with the grim reality of managing a large number of people suffering from urological disorders, the medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh are finding it difficult to cater to the growing rush of
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Preservation of rare medicinal plants stressed
A meeting of the Medicinal Plants Preservation Committee, a Majuli based NGO was held at the guest house of Natun Kamalbari Satra recently under the presidentship of Prasanna Saikia, president of the
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10 pc Indians suffer from a bloated thyroid
The normal weight of the thyroid gland is just about 25 gm. The frighteningly bloated overgrowth on 50-year-old Manturni Devi's throat, that she had carried for 25 years, was more than one kg. it
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Concern over rise in polio cases
80% of polio affected persos live in India, out of which 75% live in 252 blocks of Uttar Pradesh. To solve this major problem, every one should make joint efforts. For eradication of polio, the