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
-
Dictatorships and disease
It is known that repressive government is one of the principal causes of famine. Democracies, after all, spread information about bad harvest. Today, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is
-
Warning on resurgence of Afghan drug trade
The head of the United Nation's anti-drug programme, Antonio Maria Costa, yesterday warned that a big international effort was needed to counter a resurgence of the drugs trade in
-
WHO confirms genetic identity of Sars virus
The World Health Organisation yesterday confirmed the identity of the virus that causes Sars.It is a new member of the coronavirus family, a group of germs best known for causing a form of the common
-
Cardiac clinic on wheel at your doorstep
In keeping with its mission of 'social welfare through heart', the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) is introducing a mobile cardiac clinic, which will travel
-
3 arrive in Pune with SARS
Three persons of a family, including a woman who was to get married in Pune, have tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Maharashtra Minister for Health, Mr Digvijay
-
WHO team in Shanghai
A six person team from the World Health Organisation arrived in Shanghai to investigate the extent of the SARS outbreak. The team, which will conduct a four day investigation, is expected to confer
-
Sars may slow China's growth
People have scrapped vacation plans, shopping malls are nearly deserted and waiters hover nervously for diners who never show up. China's admission that Sars is far more widespread that previously
-
Singapore combats food crisis
Singaporeans faced a shortage of fresh vegetables after a Sars outbreak forced health authorities to shut the nation's biggest wholesale vegetable market and quarantine all of its 2,400 workers.
-
Scare grips Britain
The SARS scare has taken what many believe a bizarre turn in Britain with hundreds of schoolchildren returning from their Easter holidays in South East Asia mainly Hong Kong and Singapore facing
-
Diabetes cure in sight
Scientists have used gene transplants to cure diabetes in mice and they hope it will point the way to a cure for diabetes in humans a condition which affects 1.4 million people in Britain. Diabetes