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. …
A fake malaria drug caused a death in Myanmar recently. A patient went to a rural hospital in east Myanmar where he was diagnosed with falciparum malaria and treated with the anti-malarial drug artesunate. The drug is usually effective, yet it led to the patient's death. The drug was reportedly …
Short-handed Health education should be sensitive to health care That India is short of doctors and paramedical staff in absolute terms is hardly news. But behind bare statistics is another story. There is a big skew in the distribution of health care personnel
The lack of focus on public health is a result of faulty planning in the initial years after independence when the colonial system, weighted heavily in favour of the privileged, was allowed to continue. In time-honoured style, moreover, the government set up a series of committees but the state of …
It has often been suggested that the focus on qualified doctors is one of the main reasons behind the lack of health care in rural areas. In 1975, the Group on Medical Education and Support Manpower suggested that there was a need to reorient medical education and develop a curriculum …
According to a who estimate, road accidents are expected to become the third largest killer in the world by 2020. Be it an accident or a terrorist attack or any natural disaster, the need for immediate treatment after an event and before hospitalisation is being increasingly felt to reduce the …
if you are living with lizards in your house, don't crib. Once in a while, one of them might drop on your table, but most of the time they are doing you a favour: free pest control. Beyond common sense, experts say there is a link between biological diversity and …
outsourcing is a gut feeling, literally. A team of biologists has found that a sizeable amount of critical functions that keep humans ticking are performed by millions of beneficial bacteria that exist in the human gut, or colon. Scientists led by Steven Gill of the Institute of Genomic Research in …
To document and compare the magnitude of inequities in child malnutrition across urban and rural areas, and to investigate the extent to which within-urban disparities in child malnutrition are accounted for by the characteristics of communities, households and individuals.
Ravaged by malaria, Assam is struggling to control the disease. Like in most other parts of the country, the health infrastructure is in a state of terminal decay. Forget the remote villages, even the district health centres are in shambles. Check out Lakhimpur district
a silent shift has been taking place in India's malaria profile. The malarial parasite Plasmodium vivax is no more the dominant cause of the disease. Plasmodium falciparum is taking over. This is common knowledge. Even the government knows. But what is not that clued into the public domain is the …
Overruling objections of groups representing Bhopal gas victims, the Supreme Court on May 2, 2006, sanctioned Rs 37.65 crore to the Bhopal Memorial Trust. The trust administers the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (bmhrc) and had demanded the money to ensure better functioning of this institute, set up specifically …
1984: Bhopal disaster 1991: The Supreme Court directs Union Carbide Corporation, USA, to finance a 500-bed hospital for the long term medical care of survivors 1992: Union Carbide's Indian shares confiscated by chief judicial magistrate of Bhopal 1992: Union Carbide sets up the Bhopal Hospital Trust (BHT) in England 1998: …
the Assam government has sounded a health alert across the state following an outbreak of malaria that has claimed at least 35 lives and affected more than 20,000 people over the past month. Unofficial estimates put the toll at around 80. Behind the outbreak is the laxity of the administration …
a team of scientists from West Bengal has found a microbe that could help treat fluoride-contaminated water, the chief cause for fluorosis. "After laboratory culture of three bacteria culled from fluoride-affected areas from Birbhum district of West Bengal, we have isolated a strain of Streptococcus species that could remove fluoride …
Veznova, Belarus Natasha Popova, 12, and Vadim Kuleshov, 8. Natasha was born with microcephaly; her head is too small. Vadim has a bone disease and is also mentally retarded Gomel, Belarus Annya Pesenko has a brain tumour. She was born in Zakoptye, a village which was heavily contaminated, and ultimately …
The wonders of the marine world don't cease to amaze. The latest is a yellow coral, Isis hippuris, collected off the coast of Okinawa island of Japan. The coral has yielded a compound that can slow down and possibly prevent virus replication and also treat cancer. Biochemist Jerry Pelletier of …
grapes benefit: Grape seed extract can prove beneficial to people with high blood pressure, according to a study conducted at the University of California Davis in the US. The study is the first human clinical trial to assess the effect of grape seed extract on people with metabolic syndrome, a …
