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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African countries will have only half the funds they need to fight Aids'
African countries will have only half the funds they need to pay for Aids treatment and prevention programmes in 2005, jeopardising the global drive to halt the spread of the virus by 2015, the
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Breast cancer cases on the rise
Breast cancer cases are on the rise in India. About 75,000 new cases are being reported every year in the country. And ignorance, coupled with an inhibition to report it timely, is resulting in an
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The world must do more to conquer malaria
It seems an unlikely setting for some of the world's most sophisticated medical research. In a series of sparsely furnished rooms and canvas tents in a rural clinic in Manhica, Mozambique
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America and imported drugs
The allure of importing cheap prescription drugs to the United States from Canada and other nations is proving irresistible, despite federal laws against it and stern warnings from the Food and Drug
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Don't give coconut oil a bad name, say experts
Is coconut really bad for health? Not at all, said experts at a national seminar on "Coconut and Coconut products in Health and Disease". They said giving the fruit a bad name was nothing but a
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30 die of dengue, other diseases in the state
The good monsoons may have been a blessing for Gujarat this year, but poor sanitaiton conditions have led to the spread of communicable - diseases which claimed lives of nearly 30 persons around the
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Rotting lungs as warning
The European Commission is hunting for the images of rotting lungs and dying cancer patients to be printed on cigarette packets across the European Union to put off the smokers, a spokes person said.
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Goa population stable
The Goa State Family Welfare Programme (GSFWP) claims that maternal and infant mortality rates due to tetanus in Goa are zero. With its 'home to tomb' approach to good health, "all deliveries in Goa
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Corporates should help fight AIDS'
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) DG Tarun Das feels business associations have a very large role to play in the fight against HIV/AIDS as business could supplement governmental efforts. He
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17 fresh cases of dengue reported
Dengue fever continued to spread for the third week, with 17 fresh cases reported in Punjab. These cases were reported a day after Punjab Health Minister R.C. Dogra and his Deputy Ashwini Sekhri a