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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Chicken out if you're served tinted kebabs
The next time you pick up mouth-watering kebabs or fried chicken, you could be catching yourself red-handed for no fault of yours. The appetising tint the birds are smeared with are synthetic
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China lifts sales ban on 54 exotic species
Beijing lifted a 15-week-old ban on the sale and consumption of masked palm civets and dozens of other exotic species despite evidence that wild-animal markets may have been the source of the SARS
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TV artistes plan more cance awareness programmes
As part of efforts at mobilising more funds for the Adyar Cancer Institute under the 'Iruvadhu varai Iruvadhu' scheme and to create awareness among people of cancer, television artistes took part in
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The urgent need to whittle down
India has 2.4 per cent of the land mass of the world and about 17 per cent of its population. Its population is increasing at the rate of 1.9 per cent per annum, while the world's population is
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Uncle Sam gives thumbs up to viagra rival levitra
A new oral importance treatment called leitra won US approval yesterday, providing the first challenge to the popular Viagra in the world's most profitable market for medicines.Levitra, an orange
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Glaxo AIDS drug not good: NGO
The nation's larget AIDS organisation has askd US reguators to withdraw approval for Glaxo-SmithKline's HIV drug Trizivir in light of a study showing it was inferior to otehr treatment ocmbinations.
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LS takes up fake drugs this week
Law makers will consider the death penalty for "merchants of death" behind a flood of fake medicines, killing untold number of people and costing legitimate drug makers almost rs 100 crore a year.
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MCD schools need more in midday meals to combat malnutrition
Children studying in Municipal Corporation of Delhi run schools need more than midday meals to keep diseass at bay. The MCD's annual health report for 2002 has revealed that of the nine lakh children
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Herbal remedy for conjunctivitis
As conjunctivitis or eye flu continues to afflict thousands of people in Delhi, a study conducted by AIIMS doctors has revelaed that doses of herbal extracts can hasten recovery. "Patients who were
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50% Tuberculosis Deaths Are Due To Smoking: Study
In India, smoking causes about half of all deaths due to tuberculosis or other respiratory diseases in males. Numerically every year 200,000 people die from tuberculosis on account of tobacco