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
Cancer
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IIT-B & docs use nanotech to treat cancer
MUMBAI/HYDERABAD: If it does pass the muster, it could be India
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Third-hand smoke can cause cancer too:people at risk from tobacco residue on surfaces
Washington: You know smoking is bad for you. You know inhaling someone else
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Soon, cancer drugs at half-price from govt outlets?
New Delhi: In a first-ever initiative to bring down prices of expensive cancer medication, the government plans to retail them through its
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Study links soft drinks to cancer of pancreas
People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported on Monday. People who drank mostly fruit juice instead of sodas did not have the same risk, the study of 60,000 people in Singapore found.
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Cancer may soon become a notifiable disease
Experts Want Regional Cancer Centres To Be Developed To Tackle Disease Ahmedabad: If all goes well, cancer will soon be a notifiable disease. Cancer experts from across the country who congregated in the city to brainstorm over National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) said the disease should be declared notifiable in six months
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New vaccine may help cure multiple diseases
Sohini Das & Maulik Pathak / Ahmedabad January 27, 2010, 0:58 IST As the country
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Surgeons plan national cancer registry
In an effort to promote India as a hub for surgery, the Association of Surgeons of India has chalked out a plan to work in collaboration with the government to achieve the goal. The association has also announced registration of cancer patients which is expected to aid government policy-making. "The association is planning to showcase India as a surgery hub to the world.
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Malaria vaccine in advanced stage
RASHME SEHGAL The department of biotechnology is moving at a rapid pace to develop new vaccines to combat tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, rabies, leprosy, HIV AIDS and cancer.
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Mangrove as breast cancer cure?
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY A scientist in the Institute of Life Science (ILS) here, a research body functioning under department of biotechnology, government of India, on Monday claimed to have discovered that the extract of mangrove plants can cure breast cancer.
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Rural population to be screened for lifestyle diseases
The health ministry is planning to screen all people aged 30-40 in rural areas for lifestyle diseases like diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday.