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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TB awareness
The World Tuberculosis Day was observed in Nepal amid great fanfare, perhaps like the rest of the world. Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand participated in the celebration, highlighting the
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WHO team to soon visit Guangdong
China's death toll from the mystery flu-like illness rose to 46 after the government and WHO identified 12 more cases from February and March. Authorities granted WHO investigators permission to
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W.H.O. issues travel warning over respiratory disease
The World Health Organization recommended that travelers postpone all but essential trips here and to adjoining Guangdong Province in southern China because of the risk that they may contract a new
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Drug offers hope for late-stage Alzheimer's
An experimental drug may slow down the inexorable progress of late-stage Alzheimer's disease, two studies suggest this week. The results hold out the hope that the drug, memantine, will prove
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CDC has test to confirm mystery illness in those who are ill
U.S. health officials said they now have a test to determine whether coughing, feverish patients have the mystery illness from Asia. The new antibody test isn't perfected enough to be given to
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Smoking ban linked to drop in heart attacks
Dr. Robert Shepard, a longtime proponent of a citywide indoor smoking ban, was skeptical when a colleague suggested research showed heart attacks had dropped sharply during the first two months the
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Slipping up
Just when it seemed that eradication of polio is within India's reach, comes the bad news that this might not be possible after all. The World Health Organisation had set 2005 as its deadline for
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Medicare drug benefit plan is proposed by 2 democrats
In a break with party leaders, centrist Democrats proposed that Medicare provide drug benefits immediately to people who have low incomes or high prescription drug expenses. Members of both parties
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Medicine for sickle cell anemia also prolongs life for sickest patients, study says
The first drug approved to reduce the frequency and intensity of attacks of sickle cell disease prolongs life among the ailment's sickest patients, researchers said. A study of 299 adult patients
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Drug cuts heart risk by a third
Australia's most heavily subsidised pharmaceutical has proved effective in reducing heart attacks and strokes in people with high blood pressure and cholesterol levels regarded as "normal". But under