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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Outbreak of cholera causes concern
Alarmed at the outbreak of cholera-like disease in some parts of Assam State, particularly in tea estates and char areas, the State health authority has pulled up its socks to arrest spread of the
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Care as important as prevention for HIV, says Sushma
In a significant shift of focus in the war against AIDS, health minister Sushma Swaraj has emphasised that care is as important as prevention. Addressing the MPs on her ministry's consultative
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India should have 35 million more women
With a deficit of 35 million women reported in the 2001 census compared to the three million in 1901, India cannot afford to wait till the next census in 2011 to determine whether the growing
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Jayalalithaa launches anti-rubella campaign
A campaign to administer the rubella vaccine to young women was inaugurated by the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, at the Secretariat in Chennai on Friday. She offered the vaccine kits to 10
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EU affirms ban on U.S. beef
The European Union said that it had permanently banned the importation of U.S. hormone-treated meat and asked the Bush administration to drop tariffs imposed in retaliation for loses caused to U.S.
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First heart transplant in State in January
Andhra Pradesh is all set for the first-ever heart transplant in January next year. A team of expert cardiologists from Global Hospitals will shortly leave for Australia for a specialised training in
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Health sector reforms on anvil
The Punjab Health Systems Corporation (PHSC)has plans to introduce reforms in the health sector like implementation of health insurance scheme in the state, public-private collaboration and joint
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Indo-US team to make male pill a reality
Indian and American scientists are working in close cooperation in the field of male contraception and the objective in the long run is to produce a sperm-based vaccine. Over the past two days,
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WHO guidelines questioned
The World Health Organisation's (WHO) revised universal guideline on dengue treatment have come under fire. It says that there is not need to panic till the platelet count reaches 10,000. However,
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Court pulls up all for dengue, seeks figures
With the Delhi civic authorities failing to check the spread of dengue in the city, the Delhi high court asked for area-wise data on the number of dengue-affected people and deaths that have taken