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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Natco to launch cancer drug after ministry stays DCGI order
NATCO Pharma is expected to shortly launch its breast cancer drug Albupax after the health ministry stayed an order of the country
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Novartis gets patent for cancer drug
PB Jayakumar / Mumbai January 11, 2010, 0:21 IST Swiss drug manufacturer Novartis AG has been granted patent protection in India for Nilotinib, a superior version of blood cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate). It has been engaged in a legal battle with the government on the latter
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Arsenic in water may be major cause of cancer: PAU
Research on to minimise harmful effects Naveen S Garewal Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 1
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Residential pesticides and childhood leukemia: A systematic review ?and meta-analysis
Childhood leukemias, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), are rare but potentially fatal cancers associated with substantial morbidity. Turner et al. report on a meta-analysis of original case
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Risk factor profile for chronic non-communicable diseases: Results of a community-based study in Kerala, India
Kerala State is a harbinger of what will happen in future to the rest of India in chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD). We assessed: (i) the burden of NCD risk factors; (ii) estimated the relations of behavioural risk factors to socio-demographic correlates, anthropometric risk factors
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Stress on non-toxic agents in cancer management
JAIPUR: Life science experts from Jaipur highlighted the significance of non-toxic and low-cost strategies for prevention and treatment of cancer at an international symposium on chemoprevention of cancer in New Delhi earlier this week. The global event highlighted the role of dietary, natural and synthetic agents in cancer management.
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Mobile units to detect cancer in Meghalaya
The Meghalaya Government would soon sign an agreement with a UK-based charitable trust after which two vans would crisscross Meghalaya to help early detection and diagnosis of cancer.
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Lung, skin cancer genes decoded
Early Detection, Better Drugs, Customized Therapy Ahead London: Scientists have identified all the changes in cells of two cancers to produce the first entire cancer gene maps, calling the findings a
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Medical and economic importance of scolopendrid centipedes
The paper deals with the medical and economic importance of the centipedes, their venom, Pharmacodynamics, effect of bites, symptoms and treatments based on some recent case studies; and morphology of poison apparatus in centipedes.
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The most destructive project on earth
The extraction of oil from the second largest reserves in the world has merely begun, but the environmental costs are already skyrocketing. Canadian NGOs claim tar sand development is the most destructive project on earth.