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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395 cases of cholera in the city so far
A new five-year high for cholera cases in August is likely to be set this year with a spurt in cholera cases last week. Till August 18, 345 cases of cholera were reported. On Wednesday (20th August)
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AIDS curse for UP govt hospitals
Of the 2500 counselling cases at the centre over the past three years,
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Gehlot seeks ISRO help for telemedicine
The Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, has sought the cooperation of the Indian Space Research Organisation in the establishment of a telemedicine facility in the State to ensure availability of
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Ranbaxy contests Pfizer mega drug patent in US
Ranbaxy Laboratories has challenged yet another patent of a blockbuster drug in the US market. This will take the company's paragraph IV filings in that country to more than half a dozen. Ranbaxy has
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Smoking kills half of TB inflicted Indian men
Smoking causes half of all deaths due to tuberculosis in males and a quarter of all deaths in middle aged males in India. The current death rates indicate that about a quarter of cigarette or bidi
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Dangerous medicine
Spurious or counterfeit drugs are a public menace. They are mostly ineffective and can cause grievous injury or even death. The existence of spurious drugs in India is well known, although not the
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Stress can cause strokes'
Neurological strokes caused by stress may become a major public health issue, eminent neurologist Krishnamoorthy Srinivas said. Stress levels were going up and this had the effect of causing
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'US study results on Gugulipid premature'
Sabinsa Corporation, the US-based sister concern of Sami Labs of Bangalore, has questioned what it described as the lack of balance in a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) report
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Bihar NGO men volunteer for experiments
Soon after Bihar legislators agreed to break barriers of prejudice by being tested for HIV and AIDS, two activists from the state have volunteered to participate in the test for the first indigenous
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'Desi Viagra', preferred cash crop among farmers in MP
Chlorophytum borivilianum or Safed Moosli, popularly known as "Desi Viagra", is emerging as the most preferred cash crop among the farmers in Madhya Pradesh because of its export potential and a