Health Care

CHHATTISGARH: Off track

Parties missing the point

Publication Date:

14/11/2003

Tags:

Pollution Control, Water Resources, CNG, Health Care, Electricity, Governance, Political Parties, India, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

India

Yar Tsa Gumba

A miraculous mushroom, over exploited, is on the brink of extinction

Publication Date:

14/10/2003

Author(s): Chandra Singh Negi

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Mushroom, Health Care, Drugs, Medicinal Plants, China, India, Pithoragarh (D)

India

Malarial vector back with a vengeance in Rajasthan

Incessant rains and the resultant stagnant water in canals and fields have spawned a malaria epidemic in the western part of the state

Publication Date:

14/10/2003

Author(s): Vibha Varshney

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Effects, Indira Sagar, Malaria, Health Care, Epidemics, DDT, Tourism, World Bank, NGO, India, Rajasthan

India

Legal salve

As palliative for AIDS

Publication Date:

14/10/2003

Author(s): Vibha Varshney

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Health Education, AIDS, Legislation, India, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh

Industry

World Trade Outcry

How inevitable was the collapse of talks at the World Trade Organization? How engineered was it? CLIFFORD POLYCARP reports from the streets and conference centres of Cancun

Publication Date:

14/10/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20031015

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Cotton, Trade, WTO, Economy, Health Care, Subsidies, Exports, Imports, Industry, Trade Unions, Africa, Singapore, Mexico, United States Of America (US), Uruguay, European Union (EU)

India

The government s public health system is completely defunct. Of late, there has been an alarming rise in disease outbreaks in the country. Western Rajasthan is currently in the grips of malaria. The recent death toll from a disease not endemic to the stat

Publication Date:

14/10/2003

Author(s): Animesh Roul

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20031015

pp:

0

Tags:

Malaria, Health Care, Epidemics, Encephalitis, India, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal

Air Pollution

Merger plan

For AIDS, TB schemes

Publication Date:

29/09/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Tuberculosis, AIDS

Forests

Forests are the main source of herbs

Meghalaya s abundant flora is the basis of its traditional healthcare system. Now, rapid urbanisation and breakdown of the community structure are disturbing the balance. JOHN F KHARSHIING, Chairperson, Khasi School of Medicine in Shillong, talks to VIB

Publication Date:

30/08/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20030831

pp:

0

Tags:

Forests, Traditional Knowledge, Health Care, Herbal Medcine, Medicinal Plants, Flora, Governance, Meghalaya

India