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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Farners high on HIV list, after truck drivers
As if failed crops, unemployed and indebtedness, the usual after effects of drought, were not enough, farmers in North Karnataka are now facing an unexpected threat in the form of an increasing
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MCD targets 'rabies-free' Capital
The MCD has been trying stern steps to ensure a 'rabies-free' Capital for the residents. Only a month back the civic body formed a 'society for stray canine birth control' in collaboration with a
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Project for cultivation of medicinal plants
The State Medicinal Plant Board, Haryana, and the Forest Department have embarked upon a project for commercial cultivation of medicinal plants in agro
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Doctors' mobiles may spread hospital infections
Mobile phones used by healthcare personnel in the hospital can spread dangerous infectious agents, according to investigators in Israel. In 2002, Dr. Abraham Borer, of Soroka University Medical
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Not abstinence alone: offer all options for family planning
The recent national debate on the two-child norm in the legislative functioning is yet another indication of the confusion in addressing population stabilisation. Over the last 40 years, we have
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6 die as mysterious fever grips Gandhinagar village
At least six people of Borisana village in Gandhinagar district in Gujarat succumbed to a mysterious fever said to have affected several people in the villaged since the past week. The symptoms are
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Skewed priorities
The draft document on Reproductive Health and Family Planning, prepared by the Department of Family Welfare, focusses only on family planning and ignores the large issues of reproductive and child
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Politics is a health 'hazard'
Being a politician can be hazardous to health, an expert in the Austrian city of Linz has warned. "They're burning up their bodies' said physician Gerald Wolfschuetz . Campaigning politicians were
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In Africa, a new hope in fighting malaria
The World Health Organisation and a group of major multinational companies have begun production in Africa of a new kind of insect-repellent plastic that disease experts said could have a major
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Scientists defend gene trials
About 1,500 French scintists have signed a petition demanding an end to the destruction of genetically modified crop trials, organizers of the petition said. Almost half the experimental fields of