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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Health effects of exposure to EMF
The purpose of this opinion is to update the SCENIHR opinion of 21 March 2007 in the light of newly available information, and to provide a methodological framework and corresponding guidelines to evaluate
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Processed food may lead to lung cancer
Common food additives known as phosphates may help lung cancer tumors grow faster, at least in mice, South Korean researchers reported. Their tests in mice suggest the additives
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Addiction as muse
Book>> Coda
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Fresher cookers
Technology and development: The humble cooking stove is being overhauled around the world with the help of
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Respiratory cancer and inhaled inorganic arsenic in copper smelters workers
Inhalation of high levels of airborne inorganic arsenic is a recognized cause of respiratory cancer. Although multiple epidemiologic studies have demonstrated this association, there have been few analyses of the mathematical relationship between cumulative arsenic exposure and risk of respiratory cancer, and no assessment as to whether and how arsenic concentration may modify this association.
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Speciation of arsenic in exfoliated urinary bladder epithelial cells from individuals exposed to arsenic in drinking water
The concentration of arsenic in urine has been used as a marker of exposure to inorganic As (iAs). Relative proportions of urinary metabolites of iAs have been identified as potential biomarkers of susceptibility to iAs toxicity. However, the adverse effects of iAs exposure are ultimately determined by the concentrations of iAs metabolites in target tissues.
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Shining protein
One Japanese and two American scientists share the Chemistry Nobel for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein.
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Saving the devil from cancer
Erica Rex
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US biotech wins patent appeal
The European patent office on Wednesday upheld a US biotechnology company
