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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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.
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The health risk of formaldehyde to human beings
<p>Formaldehyde was classified as a potential human carcinogen, identified by the US Environmental Protection Agency and International Agency for Research on Cancer as a Class 2A carcinogen. It also can
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Immunity Too Dear
Should a state where the healthcare budget is perpetually in strain spend Rs 33,000 on every girl for a vaccine that
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GM food can cause cancer
French scientist Gilles-Eric S
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New pollutant in Mumbai's air
Mumbai: Another name has been added to the long list of substances that pollute the air Mumbaikars breathe.
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HVP vaccine may prevent 75% cervical cancer in India: study
NEW DELHI: Researchers at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have found that vaccination against human papillomavirus (HVP) might prevent 75 per cent of cervical cancer, which causes of about 74,000 deaths every year in the country
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Viral theory for chronic fatigue
The controversial theory that viral infection leads to chronic fatigue syndrome has received a boost from a US study. Researchers at the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Nevada found that a recently discovered virus called XMRV was present in 67 per cent of people with CFS but only 3.8 per cent of healthy controls. The study appears in the online edition of the journal Science .
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Immortality enzyme wins US trio Nobel
Three American scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for research on cell division and the
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India sitting on a cancer bomb
Likely To See 87,000 Additional Cases Every Year In Men By 2020 India
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of childhood leukemia and parental occupational pesticide exposure
The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of childhood leukemia and parental occupational pesticide exposure.