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
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Seminar to be held on Thalassaemia awareness
The Maldivian Thalassaemia Society is to hold a one-day seminar next week to provide information on Thalassaemia. An official from the society said supervisors of schools, medical officers, and
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WHO chief: Wiping out polio worldwide by 2005 is 'doable'
Polio, which once paralyzed more than 350,000 children each year worldwide, has struck only 235 children this year, and the global effort to wipe out the disease by 2005 is "a doable job," Lee
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Nitrogen causing birth of blue babies
Watch the water. Extensive research by Dr Milkha Singh Aulakh, a senior soil chemist of Punjab Agricultural University, has found that excessive use of nitrogen fertilisers by the farmers is one of
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Don't Downplay the AIDS Danger
Just four million cases in a billion population and all this fuss over HIV/AIDS? And this at the cost of tangible threats like galloping infection rates of tuberculosis, virulent malaria making a
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Frontal attack on population growth
After the problem of the 1970s, no political party has deemed its politic to directly deal with the problem of population growth. The message of the last 25 years has been that unless there was an
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Municipality to battle epidemics
The Tripunithura municipality in Kerala will start distributing preventive medicines and start implementing precautionary measures to curb the rising cases of epidemics. Free medicines will be
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Wealth of the nation is health
Though the phrase is worn out, health indeed is wealth and if a large section of the rural population in Sri Lanka is denied primary healthcare then the wealth of our nation may not go beyond Adam
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DMO flays private hospitals over fever statistics
Leptospirosis heat that have gripped Kochi for the last two months? Health officials put the figure somewhere around 120 and 103 in both cases, adding that the statistics is not complete. But the
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Target fails to speed up breast cancer treatment
A drive to speed up breast cancer treatment seems to be having no impact on waiting times, researchers reported. Patients referred to hospital as suspected urgent cases are meant to be seen for
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2-child norm also for Muslims: SC
The Supreme Court rejected the claim of Muslims that a two-child norm in local bodies violates their religious freedom to have four wives. No Islamic scripture mandates that