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. …
nothing illustrates better the ill-effects of excessive and unnecessary intervention in the field of reproductive and child health more than the rising rates of ectopic pregnancy
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the Western World. For effective treatment and prevention strategies to be put in place, the major risk factors associated with this disease must be identified. Data show that almost 300 variables are statistically associated with CHD. However, evidence suggests …
for the netizens in India there is some great news. A new website on health has been launched as part of an Indo-Canadian project. The website, www.galaxyofhealth.com , is being spearheaded in India by Vikram Sharma. A Canadian software solutions company will provide the infrastructure. The idea behind the project …
despite intensive research for over 50 years, very little is known about sleep. One thing, however, is clear: it is not a luxury. Everybody needs sleep. But how much sleep one needs is also not clear. No biological signal has been found so far that indicates exactly when you have …
The Sri Lanka government's health department launched an anti-rabies drive on July 31 to prevent deaths caused by the deadly disease. The drive is a result of 20 deaths in the country caused by rabies during the first quarter of 1999. The death toll was 79 in 1998 and 197 …
A three-day review and evaluation meeting of the National Tuberculosis Programme was held in Bhaktapur, Nepal, recently. The review meeting was held in connection with conducting the quarterly review of activities of governmental and non-governmental organisations working in the National Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Programme in all the five developmental …
The Union health ministry and the deputy chairperson of the Planning Commission have been issued notices by the Delhi High Court on a petition alleging under-utilisation of funds for health services. The division bench comprising Chief Justice S N Variava and Justice S K Mahajan have asked the respondents to …
Iraq has agreed to allow a United Nations (UN) team of experts into the country to remove toxic substances left behind in Baghdad by disarmament inspectors. UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's special envoy to Iraq, Prakash Shah, said Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, notified him of approval for the visit. …
politicians and economists look at the latest gross domestic product ( gdp) figures to see how their nations are doing. I look at the infant mortality rate or imr . It is the number of babies out of every 1,000 born who die before they reach their first birthday. For …
it is not only humans that have understood the importance of sticking together for success. For long we have known that animals also keep together for survival. But few expected that tiny microbes also adopt this strategy to ward off the efforts of drugs and doctors to finish them. Now …
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) will provide a total of US $300 for child welfare programmes in India. An agreement, signed by Kiran Aggarwal, secretary department of women and child development and Alan Court, UNICEF representative in India, will be operative till December 2002. The objective of the programme is …
famida , 40, a resident of Bhopal's Jayaprakash Nagar was "anything but dead' for 14-odd years after the disastrous methyl iso cyanate ( mic ) gas leak in Bhopal in 1984. Two of her family members choked to death while running for their lives. She was left alive, but barely …
The United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA) has denied reports that the emergency reproduction health kits sent to Albanian women, running away from the war in Kosovo, contained abortion pills. The executive director of UNFPA, Nafis Sadik, denied that health kits contained RU-486 pill, which is often used for abortion. Sadik …
Cutting back on blood transfusions for the critically ill can actually improve some patients' chances of survival, according to a study that may have a far-reaching impact on the treatment of the critically ill. After studying over 830 critically ill and anaemic patients in hospitals across Canada, Paul C Hebert …
The Supreme Court (SC) has criticised the Union government for delaying the release of Rs 27 crore sanctioned to better equip the two hospitals at Bhopal to provide medical assistance to over 500,000 gas victims. The court directed the government to file an affidavit within two weeks detailing reasons for …
On the state of viral diseases in India: India faces a bleak scenario as far as viral diseases are concerned. There has been an alarming rise in the number of hiv cases. It could well be more than 10 million, though the World Health Organisation ( who ) estimates that …
a strain of influenza, originating from Sydney in Australia, is being blamed for causing chaos in London's health care system. The Sydney flu bug has been sweeping southern parts of Britain after initially being found in the British Midlands and the north of the country. The bout of influenza has …
people taken ill on aircraft or ships will soon be able to get expert treatment with help of a telemedicine system based on video conferencing technology and developed by a joint European and us team led by Alenia Aerospazio of Italy. Until now, doctors could communicate with crews only by …
Surgeon Volkmar Falk demonstrates heart bypass surgery using a robot in the German city of Leipzig, Saxony. This is the first interdisciplinary operation theatre using the robotic technique in the country. While the operation is in progress, a surgeon watches the monitor and manipulates the robotic arms with two handles …
