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
Health
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Principal Health Secretary faces CM's wrath
Principal Health Secretary Chaya Ratan and her officials got a taste of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's wrath over their failure to initiate disciplinary action against doctors who neglected
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Hand-me-down drugs for HIV in third world
Every three-months or so, a package from the United States arrives at the small clinic that Mary Annel operates behind an unmarked door in a run-down neigborhood in San Salvador. The package contains
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Cholera grips rural areas of Itari, Shobhapur
Village Jhirmau, some two kilometers away from Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh is in the grip of vomiting, fever and lose motions(cholera) these days. For the last few days around 60 people have been affected
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Skin cancer treatment hope
Knocking out a key enzyme may provide a new way to prevent and treat skin cancer, say experts. The enzyme, called JNK2, has been shown to play a pivotal role in the development and non melanoma skin
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Campaign to make Thrikkakara panchayat rat-free to be launched
Even as the garbage disposal programme is gaining momentum in Thrikkakara grama panchayat, Kerala, authorities are planning to launch yet another campaign to make the panchayat the first ever
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Faster, cheaper rat fever test to be put on trial
The Gwalior-based Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE) will soon conduct a large-scale clinical trial of a new antigen detection system for the early diagnosis of Leptospirosis (rat
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Central team hints at another epidemics outbreak
A three-member team from the Central Health Ministry which was in Thiruvananthapuram to take stock of the epidemic outbreak in Kerala State said that another outbreak could not be ruled out as the
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Hope for Africa
On the troubled continent, Bush will stump for his $15 billion AIDS relief plan. With medicine and treatment now cheaper and more accessible than ever, 30 million people may stand a chance. As
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Contaminated water claims 7 lives
Seven people have died in Lucknow and over 400 have taken ill after consuming contaminated water. Residents complained they had been receiving "dirty water" due to leaks in sewer
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Bihar sets up monitoring board to save girl child
A gentle twist of the neck, a few minutes in a closed grain jar or a pinch of husk thrown into the mouth