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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Bill gates donates $168 million to fight malaria
The world's richest man donated $168 million to fight malaria, and urged the world to intensify its battle against a disease which kills more than one million people a year, mainly in Africa. "It's
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3rd year in Himachal: Typhus claims 19
Though the mystery behind the mystery fever has now been unravelled, it continues to grip pockets of half of the 12 districts of Himachal Pradesh and has claimed 19 lives this year, adding upto 36 in
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Herbal drug approved by Maharashtra FDA
Veronica Laboratories Ltd has obtained the approval of the Food and Drug Administration of the Maharashtra Government for its anti-aids Ayurvedic herbal drug Herbovera. The new drug acts as a immuno
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Asbestos still a health hazard in India
Several lakh factory workers have contacted lung cancer after inhaling ultra-fine asbestos fibre for decades. Health experts have demanded that the Government build a concrete framework to phase-out
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Health strike enters second week
The strike by health workers across the island (Sri Lanka) entered its eighth day without a solution. Thousands of patients have been inconvenienced and several patients have died of neglect. At
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African countries will have only half the funds they need to fight Aids'
African countries will have only half the funds they need to pay for Aids treatment and prevention programmes in 2005, jeopardising the global drive to halt the spread of the virus by 2015, the
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Breast cancer cases on the rise
Breast cancer cases are on the rise in India. About 75,000 new cases are being reported every year in the country. And ignorance, coupled with an inhibition to report it timely, is resulting in an
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The world must do more to conquer malaria
It seems an unlikely setting for some of the world's most sophisticated medical research. In a series of sparsely furnished rooms and canvas tents in a rural clinic in Manhica, Mozambique
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America and imported drugs
The allure of importing cheap prescription drugs to the United States from Canada and other nations is proving irresistible, despite federal laws against it and stern warnings from the Food and Drug
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Don't give coconut oil a bad name, say experts
Is coconut really bad for health? Not at all, said experts at a national seminar on "Coconut and Coconut products in Health and Disease". They said giving the fruit a bad name was nothing but a