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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Smoking causes five million deaths a year globally
The Pakistan Medical Research Council has observed that 54 percent of men and 20 percent of women use some form of tobacco on regular basis in Pakistan, while approximately 80 percent smokers start habit before reaching the age of 18-20 years.
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Evidence that humans metabolize benzene via two pathways
Recent evidence has shown that humans metabolize benzene more efficiently at environmental air concentrations than at concentrations > 1 ppm. This led the researchers to speculate that an unidentified metabolic pathway was mainly responsible for benzene metabolism at ambient levels.
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The global food crisis
Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more people into poverty.
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Cleaner ship fuels to save American lives
The United States and Canada want ships to burn cleaner fuel when approaching the continent to reduce smog-related deaths.
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Pakistanis spend Rs1.2bn on tobacco every year
Although tobacco is injurious to health, people in the country consume tobacco and its by-products worth Rs1.2 billion annually while the government has failed to take concrete steps to protect the masses from the health hazard involved in it.
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'100,000 deaths occur from tobacco use every year in Pakistan'
Pakistan should implement already existing anti-tobacco laws to protect people from the tobacco epidemic, especially as the country has signed the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - requiring signatories to post "health warnings describing the harmful effects of tobacco use" on cigarette packets and recommending that pictures form part of the warnings.
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Cancer drug push at Novartis
Novartis yesterday said it would spend
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DRDO herbal alternative may give cancer patients relief
New Delhi: There
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Cancer drugs may come under NPPA purview
CANCER drugs may soon come under the purview of India
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Probe on Ambagasdowa water supply scheme
The Daily Mirror news report on 20.3.2009 highlighting the deteriorated state of Ambagasdowa water supply scheme has been an eye opener to the relevant authorities.