Transforming India’s approach to cancer care
In India, a country with a vast population and a diverse socio-economic fabric, healthcare remains fraught with challenges including disparities in access. These socio-economic disparities are deep, and
In India, a country with a vast population and a diverse socio-economic fabric, healthcare remains fraught with challenges including disparities in access. These socio-economic disparities are deep, and
Cancer patients, who are victims of oral tobacco abuse, have written to social activist Anna Hazare seeking his intervention to pressurise the Union Government to hasten the implementation of pictorial warnings on tobacco products to ensure that youngsters don't fall prey to them.
Water pollutant levels are only set to rise with India facing increasing nitrate contamination in its water supply. Nitrate content in drinking water increases cancer risk as these compounds have been found to be highly carcinogenic. Their huge increase in water levels has been caused by nitrate fertilisers being used by farmers and because of the increasing industrial and domestic wastes be
Japan's ongoing nuclear emergency has intensified discussion on a simmering issue: the potential cancer risk from living near a reactor that is operating normally.
<p>Everyone knows about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, now, Fukushima. But what about Semipalatinsk, Palomares and Kyshtym? The world is full of nuclear disaster zones -- showing just how dangerous the technology really is.</p> <p>http://www.firstpeoplesfirst.in/admin/pdf/74_Atomic%20Deserts.pdf<br /> </p>
<p>In 2004, several hundred Kenyans became severely ill, and 125 died, of acute aflatoxicosis: a disease of liver failure associated with consuming extremely high levels of aflatoxin in food (Lewis et al. 2005; Strosnider et al. 2006). Since then, over the last six years, greater global public attention has been drawn to aflatoxin and its associated health risk.</p>
<p><span>The Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2010 is the first report on the worldwide epidemic of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, along with their risk factors and determinants. </span></p>
<p>In October, 2009, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) completed a review of the more than 100 agents classified as “carcinogenic to humans” (Group 1). These assessments will be published in six parts as Volume 100 of the IARC Monographs (Volumes 100A—F). </p>
Sivasagar, March 24: The Sivasagar health department and the ONGC are working in tandem to tackle cancer, especially in the rural areas of the district. While the health department is planning to revive the cancer detection ambulance, which had been lying idle for sometime now, the ONGC has invited the country
<p>Why is it so hard to find a test to predict cancer?</p>
RAMPANT ILLEGAL harvesting and trade in a wild plant endemic to the Western Ghats called narakya (Mappia foetida), which has anti-cancer properties, has made it an endangered species. The tree is being