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A unique home-based palliative and chronic care movement is sweeping through Kerala. Thousands of trained citizens are volunteering two hours a week to take care of the chronically ill in villages and cities. Funding for this community-based scheme that has won WHO recognition comes in cash and kind from citizens, including schoolchildren, bus drivers, labourers and others
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Genetic roulette
Jeffrey M Smith, an authority on genetically modified organisms and the author of Genetic Roulette, says that 65 health risks from GMOs provide irrefutable evidence. of harm. In this interview he explains why GM technology must be confined to the lab.
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Producers sneak into Indian delegation, endorse DDT
How did two major
operators in the POPs manufacturing-sector become part of India's
official delegation to a conference which aims to eliminate their
production and use?
reports on the embarassing, but unabashed capture of officialdom by a
manufacturer.
Death of new-borns and the Kerala model
38 babies died in one hospital in
Thiruvananthapuram over the past four months, shocking a state which
boasts of the lowest infant mortality rate in the country. The much
discussed and extolled Kerala model of health development is ailing,
reports
Forever forsaken forest people
from Melbourne, Australia is a Consultant
Endocrinologist to the UmonHon among other tribes as well as Visiting
Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Havana, Cuba.
While on an Indian tour early this month, he visited the Athirappilly
waterfall, 70 kms from Kochi. It is his experience with the Adivasis of
the near by Vazhachal forest area.
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No justice for Kerala victims
On JUNE 26, 2006, the Kerala High Court ordered that the Rs 50 lakh
allocated by Kerala government for the victims of the pesticide
endosulfan in the state's Kasargod district should be disbursed
expeditiously reports
In The Grip of Depression
Dissonance between personal growth and societal norms leads Kerala girls and women to greater depression. reports.
Silent sufferance
Many women employed in unauthorised prawn processing centres across the coastal belt of Kerala develop severe health problems due to unhygienic working conditions. .
Unchecked pollution on the Periyar
Environmental activists and locals in Kerala's Ernakulam region allege with evidence that the Pollution Control Board is entirely ineffective in preventing contamination of the Periyar river.
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