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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In 20 yrs, cancer will lose its sting: Expert
London: While the rate of cancer survival has been improving day by day, a British expert reckons that cancer will no longer be a killer in the next 20 years.
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Bone again
A protein released by the silkworm can make bones the importance of the silkworm has increased. It can not only produce silk but also prevent bone loss in people undergoing hormonal therapy for breast, prostate and malignant bone cancers. Silkworm proteins, called fibroins, are extensively used to make medical sutures and scaffolds. But all these fibres come from the domesticated
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Dealing with cancer
Interview with Elizabeth Blackburn, Professor of Biology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Great Apes Suffer Setback In EU Animal Testing Vote
Researchers can continue most experiments on mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans -- after European Union lawmakers watered down proposals to restrict testing. The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each year, mostly mice and rats.
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Promises for remedy in Punjabs cancer capital
Bathinda: In Bathinda constituency in Punjab
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Characterization of the chronic risk and hazard of hazardous air pollutants in the United States using ambient monitoring data
Ambient measurements of hazardous air pollutants (air toxics) have been used to validate model-predicted concentrations of air toxics but have not been used to perform risk screening at the national level. The authors used ambient concentrations of routinely measured air toxics to determine the relative importance of individual air toxics for chronic cancer and noncancer exposures.
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Subclinical hypothyroidism after radioiodine exposure: UkrainianAmerican cohort study of thyroid cancer
Hypothyroidism is the most common thyroid abnormality in patients treated with high doses of iodine-131 (131I) . Data on risk of hypothyroidism from low to moderate 131I thyroid doses are limited and inconsistent. This study was conducted to quantify the risk of hypothyroidism prevalence in relation to 131I doses received because of the Chornobyl accident.
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Root out cancer
Plant extract used in traditional medicine controls colon cancer THE root of the licorice plant (mulethi in Hindi) is used to treat sore throat, ulcers and eczema. New research suggests it may have a greater use-prevent the growth of cancer of the colon, the last section of the digestive system. Scientists found the compound that imparts the sweet taste to licorice, glycyrrhyzic acid
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Heatstroke continues to take toll: 3 more die: Diarrhoea turns endemic City water system contaminated
Diarrhoea outbreak in the city has become phenomenal as the inhabitants have no other way except for drinking muddy and stinking water. Scorching heat continues all over the country, our correspondents from Bhola, Rangpur and Gopalganj have reported that one person in each place has died of heatstroke.
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Panel Sees Role for Smoking in Breast Cancer
Smoking causes lung cancer and is implicated in a dozen other cancers, but scientists have generally dismissed its importance in breast cancer, saying it plays little role, if any.