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
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Ancient therapy can cure SARS
The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) can be effectively cured by using an ancient "nosode therapy' that uses patients own pooled serum, according to the executive vice chairman of the Heart
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MCD gears up to face SARS scare
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi's health department has apparently woken up to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome scare. As a first step the MCD has sent circulars to 35 major hospitals in
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Singapore epidemic nearly over: WHO
The World Health Organisation said an outbreak of deadly atypical pneumonia in Singapore was almost over but one to two weeks were needed before it could confidently know for sure. Five people in
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UP polio scare: WHO concerned
Even as anothr round of pulse polio vaccination programme go under way today, it was again concurred that Uttar Pradesh was posing a major hurdle to the global effort for eradicating the dreaded
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BMC fails to launch mosquito eradication drive
The mosquitoes are making life miserable for people even in posh colonies. During power cuts people have to face a lot of hardship. The Bhopal Municipal Corporation had announced to launch a drive to
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Birth, infant mortality rates to be reduced
The Tamil Nadu Government has set for itself a series of family control goals to be achieved by 2007, including a reduction in birth rates and infant and maternal mortality rates, and increased male
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SARS claims ILO official
SARS claimed the life of a Finnish official with the International Labour Organisation, taking the toll to 93 dead and 2,705 people having been affected with the epidemic
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Rs 650 crore WB aid for Tamil Nadu health project
The World Bank has sanctioned Rs 650 crore for the "Tamil Nadu Health System Development Project', Health Minister S Semmalai told the Assembly. Moving the demands for grants of his department, he
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Focus on diabetes cases
Rise in diabetics cases among youth and children, ways to prevent and tackle the disease by adopting various means like yoga, physiotherapy, modification in lifestle and diet control will come up for
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Not a SARS case: experts
Apprehensions that an epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the killer pneumonia-like infection, could have broken out in India too has turned out to be a case of false alarm. A