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
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Health ministry to ban smoking in its offices
The Japan health ministry will ban smoking in its offices beginning next spring, making it the first government agency to have smoke-free work spaces, an official said. The Health, Labor and Welfare
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Health ministry seeking 20 trillion yen
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry (Japan) unveiled its fiscal 2004 budget request Wednesday, seeking 20.2 trillion yen to cover child-rearing, employment and job-training programs. Of the total,
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Edible oils too have harmful contaminants
Edible oils available in the twin cities of Andhra Pradesh are contaminated with various harmful agents including cottonseed and argemone, according to a Director General of Health Services sponsored
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Canada's cheap drugs not answer, FDA warns
Cities and states should not encourage people to purchase drugs from other countries, nor should they look to import drugs from places like Canada to relieve their own strapped budgets, the Food and
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Pharma gives Rs 12.96m aid for health care
The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) and Glaxo Smithkline Global Community signed an MoU regrading the provision of a grant of 1,44,000 pound sterling for the expansion of primary
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The silent disaster
During the mid-nineties, arsenic contamination of groundwater emerging as a threat and in an international study that was released last September, officials said 60 million people, nearly half of
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'Breast cancer virus' found
Scientists have found a possible link between a newly discovered virus and breast cancer. Doctors in Australia discovered the virus in 40 per cent of tissue samples taken from women with the
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Centre preparing report to tackle fluorosis: Rana
The Centre has commissioned a study on the extent of fluorosis and will launch a special programme to tackle the problem as part of a Rs 12,545-crore plan to provide drinking water to all villages by
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Countries like ours can cure each other now
Poor countries facing public health emergencies can now override patents and order generic drugs that they themselves are unable to manufacture from other countries such as India. The World Trade
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Killer TB claims one death every minute in India
Every minute somewhere in India one man dies of tuberculosis. The full dimension of the disease stalking the country as a virulent epidemic can be best gauged from the fact that four out of every 10