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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Russia's rise in addicts leads to rampant HIV
Drug abuse has grown dramatically in Russia over the past decade, prompting a massive rise in the spread of HIV, according to government figures. A Russian interior ministry official said that the
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HIV patients press ministry to increase help, treatment
A group of people who sued Japan government after contracting HIV from tainted blood products asked health minister Chikara Sakaguchi to provide help to the families of those who have died from
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Scientist defends vaccine choice
The head of the scientific committee which advised UK government on its purchase of smallpox vaccine last night insisted that its recommendations had nothing to do with the Labour donor running the
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'Magic' pill that may tame the killer cells
In the first month of the last year of the last millennium, Brian Druker, a medical researcher in Oregon, began dosing a dying patient with an experimental new compound, codenamed STI571, designed to
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New drugs are calming to autistics
Parents and educators can control the tantrums, aggression and self injurious behavior of children with autism and related disorders by placing them on an anti-psychotic medicine that is approved
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Alaska natives prone cancer
Alaska's Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts are more likely than American whites to die within five years from cancer because they tend to be stricken by cancers that are difficult to detect and kill
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5 TB hospital staffers die of the disease
Five employees of a hospital specialising in curing tuberculosis have died of the disease. Several other employees are being treated for the same disease which they say contracted at their workplace.
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From hypothesis to reality
Even as India's billion plus population continues to grow at an alarming rate of 1.9 per cent, despite its being the first developing country to start a population control programme way back in 1951,
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Law on breastfeeding not yet enacted: Baby food industry flourishes unchecked
The delay in the enactment of a law for regulating the marketing of artificial infant foods and feeding products has given a freehand to the infant food industry for carrying out unethical promotion
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Demo held against tobacco companies at food park
Islamabad (Pakistan) based civil society organizations have asked the Capital Development Authority to declare Melody Food Park, tobacco free. The NGO, Network for Consumer Protection organized a