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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Dengue spreading tentacles in State
Karnataka has reported 814 confirmed cases of dengue fever, including six deaths, up to August 31 this year. The total yearly figures
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Govt's polio drive has lost pulse of Bellary village
Over the last few months, polio cases, and deaths, cropping up in various parts of Karnataka State have been a major cause of embarrassment to the ruling Congress government which launched its drive
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Government ropes in corporates to fight TB
The government is roping in corporate resources to fight TB, the economic cost of the morbidity and mortality it causes being enormous. The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme would
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Indians develop world's 1st herbal contraceptive pill
Indian scientists are developing the first herbal contraceptive pill, using a recipe rediscovered in a 2,500-year-old medical text. The drug's origins lie in ayurveda. The main ingredients of the
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Women won't be able to get ultrasound tests in NWFP
In a bizarre decision, Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province has banned male doctors and technicians from carrying out ultrasound examinations and using electrocardiographs on female patients, the
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Green killer on the rise
A very unhealthy, alarming and deadly disease is ringing alarm bells not just in Delhi but most of northern India. Entering the body and then sneaking into the brain undetected, invisible organisms
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Meet on new HIV prevention options
A two day national meet of policy makers will consider the possibilities of developing new methods for prevention of HIV/AIDS that would be under the direct control of women. The meet, to be attended
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South Africa leader defends lag in giving out AIDS drugs
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa defended his government's delay in distributing anti-AIDS drugs until this year, saying that it had been necessary to create a critical mass of public health
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Gluten allergy cases on the rise
Celiac disease or gluten intolerance normally affects young children but research at PGI, Chandigarh, and Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, has established that many adults in North India are also
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56% of those above 40 likely to develop osteoporosis: Study
Nearly 56% of a randomly selected population of 1,133 persons above 40 years of age have been found likely to develop osteoporosis, a disease, that involves loss of bone mass. Of these, eight per