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. …
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A NERVOUS stroke results in the patient losing his ability to lift his foot up; he has to drag his foot along the ground for walking. Such neurological disabilities call for re-educating and exercising the impaired muscles. Keeping this in view, a research team headed by Ian Swain at the …
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For yoghurt lovers there is a good news. A relentless battle for marketshare between uk supermarkets has reached the chilled goods section -- in the pots of fibre-rich yoghurt. uk-based Tesco has recently launched Fibre Hi, a yoghurt enriched with soluble fibre. Another British company, J Sainsbury has responded with …
LISSOME Seeta Mahato, 21, married last year, is the healing and humane touch in down and out Hiramiya village, tucked away in the backward Samastipur district of Bihar. Lissome is a lady health worker (lhw). And her team has worked wonders. "In just 6 months, we reduced the spate of …
MANY villages in developing countries have partial or virtually no access to electricitv because of unreliable power supply frorn existing grids and prohibitive costs of laying conventional power- lines to remote areas. In addition, the fuel used to power electric generators is expensive. Under such circumstances, can modern health care …
AS defence scientists and health ministry experts rack their brains to get to the bottom of a "newsmen's hypothesis" which says that the Surat plague was caused by a test dose of biological warfare, the prime task of continued surveillance has been effectively sidetracked. Pathologists and microbiologists in New Delhi …
TAKING a cue from the traditional method of using moldy bread to treat wounds, scientists have developed dressings that employ fungi to provide the healing touch. Researchers have established that myceliurn (filaments) of fungi can be harnessed to enhance natural healing by promoting activities of cells to repair the damaged …
AD artificial heart valves presently substituted for faulty ones, introduce a foreign substance into a patient's body and thus increase the chances of rejection by the body's immune system. Now, researchers at the Children's Hospital in Boston are trying to develop a tissue-engineered valve. Recent findings in this field indicate …
TELEMARKETING MARVELS: Want to do a market survey before buying a new car? All you have to do is press a few buttons - on the remote control of your television. The UK-based Viewcall electronic company - a new entrant in Britain's information superhighway - has developed a technology for …
MICROCHIPS form the basis of several devices, such as Min (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners and pacemakers, which have revolutionised medical diagnosis and treatment. Now, microchips may also provide relief to many people suffering from blindness. Researchers working on the Project for a Retinal Implant, a joint effort of the Massachusetts …
THE role of the umbilical cord as a foetus's lifeline does not end with birth. Researchers in the us and Europe now say that the cord blood can provide a new lease of life to siblings suffering from potentially fatal diseases like leukaemia and even AlDs and also from disorders …
• A grant of US $172,000 for cataract research has been extended by the US-based National Eye Institute to an Indian research group consisting of D Balasubramaniam and Mohan Rao of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and some other scientists working in related fields. • The Asiatic …
COMPU RECORDS: The staff at River Hills West Healthcare Center in Pewaukee, Wis.,in the US are done forever with the tiresome patient logbook, where they maintained the minutest details of the multiple doses of the myriad drugs that the 245 resident patients have to be administered daily. Now all they …
The World Health Organisation (who) has reported a 3 per cent rise in the incidence of diabetes the world over. The total number of diabetic patients in India stands at 20 per cent, 2nd highest in the world. Diabetes mellitus and Diabetes insipidus are the 2 varieties of the malady, …
With the development of a new type of computerised mattress containing sensors, researcher Jukka Alihanka of Biorec Oy in Turku, Finland, has solved the problem of monitoring patients with coronary or breathing problems throughout the night. The mattress is sensitive to the heart beats, respiration and limb movements of a …
Japan's health care system is the envy of the world. The average Japanese male expects to live 75.9 years, while women can live upto a ripe 81.8 years. But this success has helped create the fastest growing greying population in the industrialised world, shooting national medical costs through the roof. …
IT IS a profoundly unhealthy world we occupy today. THE World Health Report, 1995 brought out by the World Health Organization, Geneva, reveals that about 51 million people died in 1993 worldwide: about 39 million in the developing world, about 12 million in the developed. Infectious and parasitic diseases were …
The versatile computer has found a pew role - that of a therapist. In a study at Georgia Tech, psychologists have used virtual reality to treat a group of 10 people suffering from acrophobia - an irrational fear of heights (Science, Vol 268, No 5208). The patients were exposed to …
THERE is hope yet for those unable to shake off their addiction to drugs and alcohol. The cure is indigenous, painless and involves the oral intake of a vaccine made from homeopathic elements. Developed after a 3-year research by Dr Gopakumar, a bachelor of homeopathy medicine and surgery and his …
