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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
In a development that is good news to allergy sufferers, a research team from Hiroshima University said it has designed a new way to monitor and measure the release of specific molecules from single cells. The same technique can be used to measure the release of insulin from single cells, …
Roche, the Swiss pharmaceuticals company, has won European Union approval to sell Xenical, the first of a new type of weight loss drugs. The clearance could help it restore its reputation after recent setbacks.
Pioneering surgeons used to wait until the operation before claiming their 15 minutes of fame. Not anymore. In Louisville, US, last week a team of doctors announced their intention to perform "the world's first successful hand transplant"-using a limb from a fresh cadaver-before lifting a scalpel or even picking a …
New evidence strongly suggests that it is time to add triglycerides to cholesterol and homocysteine as substances in the blood that influence your chances of developing heart disease. Triglycerides are basic particles of fat carried through the bloodstream by various molecules. They are derived from fats eaten in food or …
Sponsored by the Wrold Health organisation, World Federation of Neurologists, World Psychiatric Association and International Psychogeriatric Association, the 14th International conference on Alzheimer's disease ("Dementia, the Global Challenge") will be held from September 24 to 27 for the first time in India, at Cochin.
Hundreds of Australians are dying unnecessarily each year because they are not taking their asthma medication as directed, respiratory specialists have warned. A report released yesterday by the National Asthma Campaign said half of the country's asthmatics were not taking their medicine as directed. And one in four asthmatics took …
The health ministry in Japan will review its food tagging system in an attempt to ease fears about allergic reactions and genetically manipulated produce, ministry sources said today. The ministry-appointed Food Sanitation Investigation Council, at a general assembly Tuesday, will establish a committee of experts to discuss the issue, the …
On an average 105 female infants were killed every month in Dharmapuri district throughout 1997. This was desptie the tall claims of successive state governments and the many schemes launched to protect girl child. The alarming data of 1260 deaths in that year was furnished to the chairperson of the …
A woman, who did not have most of her reproductive organs since birth, has delivered a baby boy after a rare surgical intervention, the first of its kind in India, by a gynocologist in Calcutta.The baby was born on Friday after a series of sic operations by Dr B.N. Chakraborty …
According to experts more than half of the counry's children, aged under-five, are "stunted." This is due to severe malnutirtion, which can impair their brain function also, experts say.
High-heeled footwear may be considered trendy, but it could also mean asking for joint problems. A large number of women wearing high-heeled shoes are at an increasing risk of developing arthritis in their knees, warn recent studies.
Major irrigation minister Tummala Nageswara Rao on Wednesday rejected the proposal made by his Karnataka counterpart Nage Gowda that an authority be constituted for Krishan waters, on the lines of the one for Cauvery waters, which could help resolve the dispute between the two states over the raising of the …
A team from Tokyo University of Technology's Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology reports the successful culturing of liver cells into a mass that functions like a second liver inside a mouse. The result brings the medical world a step closer to the advent of artificially grown liver tissue, that, though …
Claiming to have discovered a miraculous treatment for cancer, Dr. Luigi Di Bella, an 85 year old physiologist in Modena, has for the last year held center stage in Italy, fighting and almost winning-an astonishing battle for legitimacy. Hailed by some as a savior, derided by others as a dangerous …
One woman dies in the world every minute during pregnancy or at the time of delivery. About 30 million children born every year are "unwanted." Forty five million are killed in the womb because they are girls or their parents did not use any contraceptive. For all the strides made …
Out of the 472,000 lepers diagnosed in China from 1949 to 1997, 430,000 have been cured and there were only about 6,000 lepers in the country by the end of 1997, according to one expert. Chen Xiangsheng, who is associated with a National Center for the Control of Venereal Diseases …
Chinese hydropower experts contend that power generated in southern China can help to alleviate seasonal water shortages along the Yellow River in the northern part of the country. Water shortages have for many years interrupted the flow of water in many sections of the Yellow River during the dry season …
The world's first vaccine against the leading cause of childhood diarrhoea, a virus that hospitalises thousands of children each year and kills one million in other countries, has won approval by the US Food and Drug Administration.Widespread vaccination with Rotashield could prevent on million American pre-schoolers every from getting diarrhoea …
French researchers have isolated a new strain of the AIDS virus in West Africa that appears to have close genetic links to a version that infects non-human primates such as chimpanzees. It's a reminder, they said, of how genetically flexible and cunning the human immuno-deficiency virus can be.The new strain …
India had witenssed more than 30 epidemics of dropsy over past hundred years due to accidental or deliberate adulteration of weed Argemone Mexicana (Mexican poppy) with mustard oil, according to Prof Gunavant Oza, Emeritus fellow of the University Grant Commission.
