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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Two-child norm not feasible: Minister
The Government has no plans to go for the two child norm in its family welfare programme, the Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Shatrughan Sinha setting at rest the controversy on the issue.
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Bayer says it faces 3500 suits connected to cholesterol drug
Bayer AG said it faces 3500 lawsuits, more than perviously announced, over a cholesterol-lowering drug withdrawn last year after it was linked to dozens of patient deaths. In August, the German
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U.S. firm targets costly drugs
A small Texas-based health-claims processor has opened a crucial new front in the war over whether Americans should be allowed to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada. The outfit, SPC
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Vaccination against smallpox is a dreadful signal
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is reported to be considering extra germ warfare protection for American soldiers, in addition to the shots they have already received, supposedly against
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Smoking out Big Tobacco
The World Health Organization (WHO) is blowing smoke when ti says, as it did on October 14 in Geneva during talks on a global tobacco control treaty, that developing countries must increase taxes on
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Bayer to give milestone payment to Ranbaxy for outlicensed drug
Ranbaxy Laboratories will receive $6-8 million from Bayer AG before the end of the year as a milestone payment for a drug it has licensed to the Geman, firm, an industry sources said.
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Anti-cholera vaccine set to hit markets
The West Bengal health department plans to introduce a new anti-cholera vaccine by using expertise from the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases.
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Malaria prevalence is high in North Chennai
During the second phase of the anti-malaria campaign in the northern part of Chennai, the Chennai Corporation health staff identified nearly 240 persons as malaria positive. As part of the programme,
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Heart on top of death dossier
A health department survey shows heat diseases affect people in the rest of the state as much as it does a Calcuttan. Quoting from the findings, director of health services Prabhakar Chatterjee said
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Incidence of diseases in new-born babies rising alarmingly
Though Kerala can be proud of a relatively low infant mortality rate, the incidence of diseases in new-born babies in increasing at an alarming rate. As per the statistics of the Indian Academy of