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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Uncle Sam gives thumbs up to viagra rival levitra
A new oral importance treatment called leitra won US approval yesterday, providing the first challenge to the popular Viagra in the world's most profitable market for medicines.Levitra, an orange
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Glaxo AIDS drug not good: NGO
The nation's larget AIDS organisation has askd US reguators to withdraw approval for Glaxo-SmithKline's HIV drug Trizivir in light of a study showing it was inferior to otehr treatment ocmbinations.
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LS takes up fake drugs this week
Law makers will consider the death penalty for "merchants of death" behind a flood of fake medicines, killing untold number of people and costing legitimate drug makers almost rs 100 crore a year.
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MCD schools need more in midday meals to combat malnutrition
Children studying in Municipal Corporation of Delhi run schools need more than midday meals to keep diseass at bay. The MCD's annual health report for 2002 has revealed that of the nine lakh children
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Herbal remedy for conjunctivitis
As conjunctivitis or eye flu continues to afflict thousands of people in Delhi, a study conducted by AIIMS doctors has revelaed that doses of herbal extracts can hasten recovery. "Patients who were
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50% Tuberculosis Deaths Are Due To Smoking: Study
In India, smoking causes about half of all deaths due to tuberculosis or other respiratory diseases in males. Numerically every year 200,000 people die from tuberculosis on account of tobacco
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Girls turn role models in saving babies
The World Bank-aided Integrated Child Development Scheme has launched a sustained rural campaign in Sedapatti block in the district to present as "role models' adolescent girls who involved
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Bharat Bio gets licence for clot buster drug
Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) has obtained manufacture and marketing licence for recombinant Streptokinase, the 'clot buster' drug, from the Drug Controller General of India (DGI). Claiming
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Two Colorado Counties in West Nile Health Emergency
Two counties in Colorado, the state that leads in confirmed cases of the deadly mosquito-borne West Nile disease, have declared public health emergencies, officials said this week. The Rocky Mountain
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French PM Defends Minister as Heatwave Toll Climbs
French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin defended his government's handling of a killer heatwave amid reports that the final death toll could hit 5,000, far higher than the 3,000 victims registered