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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HRT 'doubles risk' of breast cancer
The most common form of hormone replacement therapy doubles the risk of breast cancer, a study of 1m British women has shown. The alarming findings, published today in the Lancet medical journal, are
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Brighton to ban smoking in pubs
Brighton is planning to become the first British city to follow New York's example and ban smoking in pubs and restaurants. The local council and health chiefs want to outlaw all smoking in "enclosed
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Mbeki finally sings agreements for grants to fight HIV
A symbolic turning point in South Africa's battle with HIV/Aids came yesterday when its governemnt singed long-delayed grant agreements with the global agreements with the global fund established to
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First Italian dies of mad cow disease
Italy has recorded its first fatality from human version of mad cow disease.A 27-year-old woman from Sicily died in a hospital in Milan on Wednesday, a hospital official
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Severe doses prescribed to check spurious drugs
The Mashelkar Committee, looking into the menace of spurious drugs, proposes death penalty as one of the
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Ebola lab test may be vaccine model
In an announcement with major implications for vaccine development, scientists said they trested a single-shot vaccine agaisnt the Ebola virus that protected 100% of monkeys exposed to the deadly
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Kids owning mobiles face health risk: Study
Parents are pampering children as young as five with mobile phones, promoting new health and safety fears. Industry figures reveal primary schoolchildren are the fastest growing market for mobile
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Hormone linked to cancer deaths
A study of one million British women has found a higher death rate from breast cancer among those who took combination hormone therapy than those who did not use it or took estrogen
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Mad cow disease worry
New Zealand sought to assure its people and its export markets on Friday that it did have any cases of mad cow disease, which if confirmed could deal a major blow to the country's
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Cases of West Nile virus triple in the U.S. to 164
The number of West Nile virus cases in the United States has tripled, to at least 164, since las week and will probably break the record for last year, a federal health official has