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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Cholesterol is the latest link to longevity: Study
Scientists trying to figure out why only one person in 10,000 lives to be 100 have found an important clue in the blood. Centenarians, a new study shows, tend to have larger than average
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Encephalitis death toll now 11
With two more children in Ambala City in Haryana succumbing to suspected Japanese encephalitis, the death toll has touched 11 in the district. Most of the cases are reported from the Ambala City and
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S Africa revives patent drugs issue
South Africa re-opened the issue of drug patents in developing countries when its competition watchdog recommended that two pharmaceuticals companies be forced to let cheap generic copies of their
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Dengue surfaces in Mumbai, 94 cases reported
Mumbai has been hit by the one of the worst tropical diseases, dengue. City hospitals have registered a large number of dengue cases in the last one month. While Nanavati registered 19 cases in
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More than 150 down with dengue, 250 with malaria in Noida
With thousands of people down with fever, 250 having contracted malaria and 155 confirmed dengue patients in Noida district of Uttar Pradesh, the District Magistrate has requested the Noida
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Easily avoided, an epidemic in Afghanistan is hard to cure
Afghanistan has once again been overlooked and, because of more than 20 years of war and isolation, it missed out on a worldwide campaign to combat iodine deficiency that has been waged since the
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Another doctor dies of killer fever
Even as the Delhi government and the MCD continued to harp on steps taken by them to control dengue, a 34- year old doctor succumbled to the killer fever at Deen Dayal Upadhyay
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MCD for imprisonment as penal action
Delhi' ites make sure that there is no stagnant water in your residential premises. For in the coming days you may find yourself behind bars for six months, if the sanitary inspectors deployed by the
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India once again in the grip of dengue fever
This might have been our first tryst with dengue, judging by the slow, unsure way in which the various state governments and the Union health ministry are reacting to the spread of the disease. The