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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Tiiny plastic spheres deliver drugs
Many medications such as therapeutic DNA, insulin and human growth hormone must enter the body through painful injections, but a Johns Hopkins researcher is seeking to deliver the same treatment
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Vegetarian sowboy risks canada mad cow showdown
The vegetarian cowboy, best known for spurring Oprah Winfrey to spurn burgers, rode into Canadian cattle country this week to warn about the dangers of meat, despite fears of a hostile reception from
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Diarrhoea in Bihar
Twelve people have died of diarrhoea and over a hundred were afflicted by the disease under different blocks in Madhepura district of Bihar during the past one week, officials
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Dengue spectre more real than not
After remaining dormant for seven years, dengue has reared its ugly face with 377 cases and one death already reported in New Delhi. But there are worse days ahead. Attributing the sudden spurt in
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Malaria spreading in Noida
Thanks to unhygienic conditions, malaria is fast spreading its tentacles in Noida, though the area is not free from dengue fever yet. In about the 122 blood samples tested during September, 26 have
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Ranbaxy gets USFDA nod for heart drug
After receiving tentative clearance from the US regulatory authorities for cholesterol lowering drug Simvastatin, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd said that it received tentative US Food and Drug
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Kalam urges scientists to develop combined vaccine
The President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, has urged scientists to develop a combination vaccine as there was a need to reduce the number of times a child is administered vaccines under the immunisation
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New study questions a hormone treatment
Hormone replacement therapy should no longer be prescribed solely to prevent or treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, researchers said in a study published disputing the policy of the Food
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Confronting AIDS in South Africa
A generation ago, Americas protested and held divestment rallies in a snowballing movement against the injustices of South African apartheid. The South African president, Thabo Mbeki, for years
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SARS infection is linked to lab
A Singaporean student who recently became the world's first confirmed SARS case since June probably caught the disease in a contaminated Singapore laboratory, not from another person, an