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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Exhibition of medicinal plants held at Shillong
A veritable wealth of herbs are on display at an exhibition on conservation and sustainable utilisation of medicinal plants at the All Saints' Cathedral Hall in Shillong. Jointly organised by the
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TN seeks World Bank aid
Tamil Nadu Government has posed to the World Bank a Rs 650-crore scheme for funding the 'Tamil Nadu Health Systems Development Project', which would go a long way in ensuring equity adn access of
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Roche launches Pegasys' for hepatitis C treatment
Roche Scientific Company (I) has launched Pegasys for treating hepatitis C in India following the approval by the drug controller general of India (DCGI). Pegasys is the only pegylated interferon
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Vizag reactor to aid research
A low power atomic reactor will come up on the Andhra University campus in Visakhapatnam, facilitating frontline research in medical, agricultural and allied fields besides manufacturing indigenous
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Living in a hot zone
The pathology department at the university of Hong Kong is one of the few places on earth where you can stare death in the face. In the department's lab, a transmission electron microscope capable of
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Killer flu fear grips the world
As scientists scramble to unravel the mystery of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a sense of crisis is spreading even faster then the illness itself. People in Hong Kong are buying surgical
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Leading from the front in war against AIDS
With AIDS taking epidemic proportions in the rest of the country, a village in Punjab is fast emerging a role model with regard to steps taken to counter it. There have been 11 suspected AIDS deaths
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CM push for pulse polio vaccination
The West Bengal chief minister appealed to the public to come forward and help the state government achieve 100 per cent polio vaccination target. The chief minister said that among the developing
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Post-measles syndrome baffles doctors too
The death of six children at Umaya, just 25 km from Vadodara, (Gujarat) is a manifestation of severe disease gnawing the villagers