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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Dirty water doesn't spare health officials either
It's not just the so called common citizen who is always at the receiving end of the civic agencies' apathy. Government doctors and health officials residing at Swasthya Vihar in east Delhi, just
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AIDS drugs in Africa : a different scenario'
Contradicting long-held prejudices that have clouded the campaign to bring AIDS drugs to millions of people in Africa, evidence is emerging that AIDS patients there are better at following their pill
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Margao soakpits major threat for water contamination
It was sheer providence that might have averted an outbreak of any 'water-borne' diseases around Pajifond-Malbhat area in Margao area in Goa, last month, but Margao city as a whole faces the constant
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Viral encephalitis flares up
Two more patients, undergoing treatment for encephalitis at the Koshi Zonal Hospital in Biratnagar died, taking the toll from the disease to seven. Five people have died from June to second week of
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Arsenic task force raps PHE
Members of the Arsenic Task Force have complained of non-cooperation from the Public Health Engineering department, the same one which set it up. According to task force members, the Public Health
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Cholera closes Hong Kong stalls
Hong Kong's largest supermarket chain, ParknShop, has closed all live fish stalls in its stores supermarket chain ParknShop, has closed all five fish stalls in its stores after health officials found
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Birth control in Russia
For 50 years, Russian women relied on state-financed abortions as the main form of birth control. With pills, condoms and other contraceptives often in short supply, most women in Russia expected to
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32 city-restaurants to down shutters
33 restaurants wil down their shutters beginning to carry out major repairs and maintenance work of their kitchen as part of the first phase of cleanliness drive - a fall-out of the viral Hepatitis E
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Rays of hope for blind people
Connie Schoeman began losign her vision in 1957 and is now blind. But since doctors placed a thin strip of electronics onto the back of her right eye in March, she has seen spots of light and bright
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Kids on Antidepressants get new warning
Wyeth has become the second pharmaceutical company in the past two months to warn doctors of possible problems in prescribing an antidepressant drug to children because it may carry a higher risk of