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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Ranbaxy gets USFDA nod for heart drug
After receiving tentative clearance from the US regulatory authorities for cholesterol lowering drug Simvastatin, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd said that it received tentative US Food and Drug
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Kalam urges scientists to develop combined vaccine
The President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, has urged scientists to develop a combination vaccine as there was a need to reduce the number of times a child is administered vaccines under the immunisation
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New study questions a hormone treatment
Hormone replacement therapy should no longer be prescribed solely to prevent or treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, researchers said in a study published disputing the policy of the Food
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Confronting AIDS in South Africa
A generation ago, Americas protested and held divestment rallies in a snowballing movement against the injustices of South African apartheid. The South African president, Thabo Mbeki, for years
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SARS infection is linked to lab
A Singaporean student who recently became the world's first confirmed SARS case since June probably caught the disease in a contaminated Singapore laboratory, not from another person, an
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Water borne disease on rise on Dewas
Malaria and other water borne diseases are on the rise in the Dewas city, Madhya Pradesh in the absence of cleanliness. The administration is yet to wake to the situation. Parthenium is growing in
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Corporation says health drinks on the Marina are laced with bacteria
Joggers and bench users of the Marina will not find the same anymore as the Chennai Corporation has decided to crack the whip on vendors of herbal juices and soups. The juices and soups, hot
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Indian' AIDS vaccine soon
For those infected with the deadly HIV, there is some good news. Scientists at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata, who have been working on the AIDS vaccine say
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Cadbury's hits a bar of worms
Cadbury chocolates had a bitter taste on Saturday after the Food and Drugs Administration directed seizure of the popular brand of chocolates following complaints that some samples of the
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Doctors sound alert on heart disease
Heart disease would assume epidemic proportions in Calcutta and elsewhere by 2020, unless preventive measures, like change of food habits and sedentary lifestyle are adopted at once. The warning sent