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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Second Toronto-area hospital closed due to mystery illness
Health officials closed a second Toronto-area hospital to new patients and asked hundreds of its employees to quarantine themselves as a deadly flu-like illness continued to spread worldwide. Anyone
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CDC fears broader spread of SARS
U.S. health officials say the mystery disease known as SARS
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Parkinson's drug trial returns strong results
A preliminary trial to test the safety of a drug in people with Parkinson's disease surprised scientists when all five patients showed measurable improvement. The drug eliminated the periods of
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Junk food taking its toll
With the kind of food that is carried by children in their tiffin boxes it is hardly surprising that a large number of them suffer from malnutrition. Thanks to the surfeit of advertisements on fast
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92 new pneumonia cases reported
The Hong Kong Government reported 92 new cases of a deadly pneumonia virus at a single housing estate, bringing the total number of infections in the territory to more than 620. The disease has
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AIDS funding and politics
Throughout the Bush administration, programs to protect the health of women and young people have been sacrificed to the far right's agenda. Effective safer-sex programs in America and abroad, and
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China, finally gets to grips with SARS epidemic
Ward Three on the 16th floor of the Zhongshan No 2 Hospital has the feel of a place abandoned in fear and in a hurry. In February Ward Three, this hospital's center for treating SARS, the deadly form
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Medicine scam rocks Uttaranchal House
The use of forged documents to purchase medicines for Government hospitals in the State rocked the Uttaranchal Assembly with the former Health Minister, Ajay Bhatt, and Prakash Pant, both BJP,
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HK pneumonia rage continues, 213 ill in one housing estate
Hong Kong Health officials said today that 92 new cases of a deadly pneumonia have been found in a housing estate, raising the total number of cases there to 213. Health Secretary Yeoh Eng-Kiong said
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Population control I
The population scenario emerging from the census in March 2001 is alarming. The figures show tha the country's demographic situation is worse than what the experts had anticipated. So much so that