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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Girls turn role models in saving babies
The World Bank-aided Integrated Child Development Scheme has launched a sustained rural campaign in Sedapatti block in the district to present as "role models' adolescent girls who involved
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Bharat Bio gets licence for clot buster drug
Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) has obtained manufacture and marketing licence for recombinant Streptokinase, the 'clot buster' drug, from the Drug Controller General of India (DGI). Claiming
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Two Colorado Counties in West Nile Health Emergency
Two counties in Colorado, the state that leads in confirmed cases of the deadly mosquito-borne West Nile disease, have declared public health emergencies, officials said this week. The Rocky Mountain
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French PM Defends Minister as Heatwave Toll Climbs
French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin defended his government's handling of a killer heatwave amid reports that the final death toll could hit 5,000, far higher than the 3,000 victims registered
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Scientists Analyze Anti-Malarial Chinese Shrub
Scientists in Britain say they may have solved the mystery of how plant extracts taken from an aromatic Chinese shrub help combat malaria. They say that if their theory proves correct, it could lead
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Panel meets to ensure fast trial, severe penalty
About 10 days after the Mashelkar Committee submitted recommendations, the consultative committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on spurious drugs is meeting tomorrow to decide on what
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Mushroom as medicine
Button mushrooms may have become as much of a staple as lauki and bhindi in the neighbourhood market, but the success story of the edible fungi doesn't end there. The National Research Centre for
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Ranbaxy gets USFDA nod for Loratadine
Pharma major, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd (RLL), said that it had received the green signal from US Food and Drug Administration to manufacture and commercialise its Abbreviated New Drug Application
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Opinion divided over noose for fake drug manufacturers
It's no longer black or white on the issue of death penalty for spurious drug manufacturers, with shades of grey emerging in terms of apprehensions against capital punishment being one of the
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French health director resigns
France's director of public health yesterday became the first political casualty in a growing dispute over government failure to react in time to the health problems caused by the recent