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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Kalpakkam reactor ready with essential material to treat bone cancer
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: A essential material required for treating bone cancer has been developed by scientists of the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam.
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Six reasons you should not have trans fats
Heart diseases Trans fats in the hydrogenated oils are worse than saturated fats. They decrease the amount of good cholesterol (hdl). This makes consumption of hydrogenated fats especially bad for the heart. For example, increase of five grammes of trans fats per day could lead to a 25 per cent increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease Diabetes Trans fats interfere with
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Painkillers ulcerous trail
HST-1 helps manage side-effects of cancer treatment an antioxidant called resveratrol, found in plants like grapes, peanuts, spruce, lily and mulberries, is known to be a good anticancer agent but it decelerates ulcer healing. Cancer patients are given pain killers that cause ulcers as side-effects. Hence resveratrol cannot be given to cancer patients with gastric ulcers. To do away with this
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Radiating Sands
Exposure to natural background radiation is an average 2.4 milliGray per year (milliGray or mGy is the unit for measuring radiation dose received per kg of body mass) and is often greater than exposure to human-caused radiation (0.01 mGy per year from nuclear weapons testing, accidents and operations combined) and the average exposure from medical procedures (0.04-1 mGy per year). In Kerala,
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High exposure, no risk
New evidence says that all radiations do not lead to cancer RADIATION protection standards say that all doses of radiation, big or small, risk human health and lead to cancers. For example, the entire cycle from extraction of nuclear material to waste disposal, exposes workers to ionising radiation that is harmful to health. A new study, however, asserts that the detrimental effect is
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Rs 1-cr OIL aid for cancer institute
DULIAJAN, Feb 10
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Shillong professor develops cancer detection tool
Sanat K Chakraborty | Shillong Professor RN Sharan of the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) is said to have developed world
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Indian scientist develops a way to detect cancer
By Our Special Correspondent Chennai Jan. 8: An Indian scientist based in California claims he has developed a technology to detect cancer in the early stages itself. The technology named "Method for early detection of cancer" has been patented and will be available to the medical fraternity in 2 years, said the scientist.
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Monazite sand does not cause excess cancer incidence
Now it is official. In the January 2009 issue of the Health Physics Journal, researchers from the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), Thiruvananthapuram, and their collaborators have shown that there is no excess cancer risk to people living in the area of high natural background radiation in Kerala from exposure to terrestrial gamma radiation.
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2008-2013 Action plan for the global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases
Working in partnership to prevent and control the four noncommunicable diseases — cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases and the four shared risk factors - tobacco