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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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
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Scientists Analyze Anti-Malarial Chinese Shrub
Scientists in Britain say they may have solved the mystery of how plant extracts taken from an aromatic Chinese shrub help combat malaria. They say that if their theory proves correct, it could lead
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Panel meets to ensure fast trial, severe penalty
About 10 days after the Mashelkar Committee submitted recommendations, the consultative committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on spurious drugs is meeting tomorrow to decide on what
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Mushroom as medicine
Button mushrooms may have become as much of a staple as lauki and bhindi in the neighbourhood market, but the success story of the edible fungi doesn't end there. The National Research Centre for
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Ranbaxy gets USFDA nod for Loratadine
Pharma major, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd (RLL), said that it had received the green signal from US Food and Drug Administration to manufacture and commercialise its Abbreviated New Drug Application
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Opinion divided over noose for fake drug manufacturers
It's no longer black or white on the issue of death penalty for spurious drug manufacturers, with shades of grey emerging in terms of apprehensions against capital punishment being one of the
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French health director resigns
France's director of public health yesterday became the first political casualty in a growing dispute over government failure to react in time to the health problems caused by the recent
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Flourishing eatery serves food as medicine
A range of ailments from diabetes, heart complications, arthritis and piles to obesity, constipation, blood pressure, water retention etc can be cured or checked if one switches to a healthy diet.
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9-yr-old gets new life
Nine-year-old Aarti had lost hope of entering her teens after her liver disease assumed life-threatening proportions. But thanks to a successful liver transplant, this Class III student is looking
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Infant food adverts banned from 1 Nov.
The Central government will impose a ban on advertising for infant milk substitutes and other infant foods in all forms of media - print, electronic, and Internet - from 1 November.This ban is aimed