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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Fakes worth rs 4,000 crore festering pharma business
The northern states of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, haryana and Punjab followed by Maharashtra, have emerged as the hotbeds of trade in spurious medicines going by cases detected by the government. Fake
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Experts want data from China on SARS
China's crash research program into SARS yielded important new clues. But little of that information has been widely shared, dismaying World Health Organisation officials, who worry that
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Malaria deaths stalk N Bengal
While the Health ministry is busy debating whether Chandipora virus or Japanese encephalitis is the cause of deaths in Maharasthra, the 59 cases of death due to an outbreak of malignant malaria
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Govt approval likely to see a healthy rise in herbal exports
A number of herbal products with medicinal value are likely to receive government approval soon which would help overcome objections raised by European Union (EU), and boost exports. Looking at
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Bangalore hospital offers hope to diabetics
In what is claimed as the first of its kind in India, the Bangalore-based Sagar Apollo hospital on Thursday launched "Insulin Pump Therapy" clinic, a certified programme, to fight diabetes. An
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Smaller babies born after 9/11 tragedy
Women who were in or near the World Trade Center when it was attacked by terrorists two years ago have given birth to smaller babies, said a study published in the Journal of the American Medical
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Two pins for public healthcare
Delhi government has a long way to go before it can prove that public healthcare is a priority. Out of requests for purchasing 62 equipment received by the health department since January, not a
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MCD drive to protect VIPs from mosquitoes
Operation mosquito control. This is what the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will undertake around the Red Fort area. But this time it is no ordinary anti-larval operation as this is being done on the
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It's official, India's worst ever' N-leak
Six employees of the Kalpakkam Atomic Reprocesing Plant (Karp) were exposed to radiation levels far higher than health standards allow due to a leak on January 21. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
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Fishy facts about fewer mosquitoes this Monsoon
This Monsoon has come with bountiful rains, but the mosquitoes are missing from the numerous puddles and brimming wells in the countryside. And it is not the DDT that the health department diligently