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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Smoking them out
France's proposed new soft drug legislation has sparked fears of a more repressive approach to cannabis users, says Amelia Gentleman. At a time when countries throughout Europe are beginning to relax
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Disease control 'hit by red tape'
Vital tests to diagnose infections and protect public health will be thrown into chaos under quality control measures being demanded by the government, the health protection agency warned last night.
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Children suffer less from Sars
Children seem to be spared the deadly symptoms of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), suggests an analysis of the Canadian outbreak. The global Sars outbreak killed 916 and sickened 8,422
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Spurt of dengue cases in Aiims campus
Residential premises of doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences have these days become a health hazard. Insanitary condition inside the east and west campus of the institute in Delhi
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Farners high on HIV list, after truck drivers
As if failed crops, unemployed and indebtedness, the usual after effects of drought, were not enough, farmers in North Karnataka are now facing an unexpected threat in the form of an increasing
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MCD targets 'rabies-free' Capital
The MCD has been trying stern steps to ensure a 'rabies-free' Capital for the residents. Only a month back the civic body formed a 'society for stray canine birth control' in collaboration with a
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Project for cultivation of medicinal plants
The State Medicinal Plant Board, Haryana, and the Forest Department have embarked upon a project for commercial cultivation of medicinal plants in agro
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Doctors' mobiles may spread hospital infections
Mobile phones used by healthcare personnel in the hospital can spread dangerous infectious agents, according to investigators in Israel. In 2002, Dr. Abraham Borer, of Soroka University Medical
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Not abstinence alone: offer all options for family planning
The recent national debate on the two-child norm in the legislative functioning is yet another indication of the confusion in addressing population stabilisation. Over the last 40 years, we have
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6 die as mysterious fever grips Gandhinagar village
At least six people of Borisana village in Gandhinagar district in Gujarat succumbed to a mysterious fever said to have affected several people in the villaged since the past week. The symptoms are