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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Spurious drug kills 21
Police and health authorities are investigating the deaths of at least 21 people, believed to have died after using a corrupted version of a drug commonly given during X-rays and other radiology
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Beware of stomach and eye infections
Delhiites may have just exchanged the danger of being felled by heatstroke for a host of other diseases. According to doctors, the wet weather is perfect for viruses and bacterias to breed.
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Apollo health cards
The Apollo Hospitals Group recently introduced a dirst of its kind 'health edge card' for its customers. the card will provide a wide range of customer benefits across the Apollo clinic and hospitals
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Child death reported in Bankura
The mysterious disese, which caused the death of a large number of children in Murshidabad district recently, reportedly claimed the life of a one-year-old in a village in Bankura today. Nine other
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Bengal second lowest in child mortality
State health minister Mr Surya Kanta Misra today admitted that 51 out of every 1000 children died in Bengal last year. But this figure is much less than that of other states, said the health
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Housework helps
For all those women out there who love doing housework, here's some good news. A team of researchers from Australia and China recently postulated a stunning theory regarding the prevention of cancers
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Ban on health sector strikes?
The Sri Lankan Government is considering to implement new legislations to ban trade union actions especially in healthcare sector, following numerous requests by the public, who are victimised by the
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Minister for awareness about diabetes
Punjab (Pakistan) Health Minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed has stressed the need for launching a joint awareness campaign by government, physicians, NGOs and media about the fatal aspects of diabetes. He
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3 die of insect-bite, people desert village
Most of the residents of Vadala village in Pamulapadu mandal deserted the village following death of three villagers during the past 48 hours due to a mysterious insect-bite. More than 20 people have
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Hope in ovarian cancer battle
Scientists have identified a gene that seems to prevent ovarian cancer. They found that the gene was "switched off" in almost 90% of the ovarian tumours in their study. Ovarian cancer kills around