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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Gates releases $ 67.5 m to fight AIDS in India
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the release of its first grant worth $67.5 million for AIDS prevention in India. The Foundation also announced a commitment of another $100 million to
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Fifty dengue cases per day
At least 50 dengue cases have been reported daily in the testing labs here in the past week and about 150 dengue patients are being treated in private and Government hospitals in the Capital. Chief
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India's AIDS vaccine to be tested on humans
Pune-based National AIDS Research Institute would carry out, by the end of this year or early next year, the country's first HIV,AIDS "candidate' vaccine Phase-I clinical trial on healthy human
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The chocolate story: No clear norms on storage
This may come as bitter truth to chocolate-lovers
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757 cases reported so far
The number of dengue cases reported in the city increased to 757. The MCD control room has so far received intimation of only one suspected case of dengue from Jamia Nagar. Meanwhile, MCD has
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RWAs blame MCD for dengue cases
After complaints that private nursing homes and hospitals had refused to admit dengue patients, Delhi government's health department and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to
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Malaria takes 48 lives in & around Noida
A high alert has been sounded against dengue in Ghaziabad, Bagpat, Bulandshahar, Noida, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnore and Meerut districts where 1,012 patients have been registered so far. Meanwhile,
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WHO reports rise in diabetes mellitus cases
A recent study conducted by the WHO shows that in the present year there are an estimated 135 million diabetes mellitus patients in the world, and this number is expected to increase to 300 million
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Preventive SARS strategy is found
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts say they have discovered a promising strategy for arresting future epidemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome
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WHO falls short in bid for help in SARS fight
An ambitious plan by the World Health Organisation to raise $200 million from companies and governments to strengthen public-health infrastructure in China and elsewhere has fallen massively short of