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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Awards for the best media coverage on reproductive health issues
The Health Education Bureau and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have decided to award the best media personality in the coverage of reproductive health issues. Contributors in Sinhala,
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Asthma prevalence
Nearly 10 percent of the country's population suffer from chest and respiratory diseases and of these patients 75 per cent are chronic asthma cases. The recent SARS threat has made doctors and health
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Virus claims more than 400 people of a single village
In Amla Road Village of Rajgadh district of Madhya Pradesh, around 400 people are affected with viral fever. Sarpanch of the village Jagdish Nagar told that the infection started from 20th April and
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SARS sends herbal-medicine makers soaring
SARS may have sunk some of Asia's big stocks, but other investments soared - including anything having to do with Chinese herbal cures and traditional treatments to bolster the immune
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Vaccines for rabies and brain fever
Bharat Biotech International Ltd intends to launch vaccines for rabies and Japanese encephalitis (brain fever) by the end of this
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SARS cases in India may have been of mild infection: WHO
With almost no fresh SARS suspects being reported in the country, World Health Organisation has said that infection in India may have been
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SARS survivors' legacy: Permanent lung injury
About 10 per cent of SARS survivors appear to be left with lung damage that renders them unable to perform routine tasks without struggling for breath, doctors in Hong Kong reported. The report comes
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Test AIDS vaccine on monkeys : DBT
The department of biotechnology (DBT) has written to the Drug Controller of India recommending that trials on large animals (monkeys) should be must for any AIDS vaccine before permitting trials in
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Origin of new SARS cases unknown: China
A Beijing health official said it was not known where up to 60 per cent of new confirmed SARS cases received by hospitals in the Chinese capital were coming from.
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SARS: Chinese villagers attack tourists
Chinese villagers, worried about SARS, dumped rotten fish on cars carrying visitors from Beijing while Canada isolated 30 people suspected to be infected by the virus. The government said five new