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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Managing diseases using stem cells
The strategy to treat Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes is to implant near the blood system the insulin producing beta cells derived from cord blood stem cells The implant for diabetes treatment is seen as a short term therapy It will take another 15 years to find a treatment for Parkinson's No to cancer treatment: "We don't promote stem cells for cancer treatment. Stem cells can't cure cancer,' said Colin McGuckin, Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Newcastle Centre for Cord Blood, U.K.
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Obesity may become leading cause for cancer, says researcher
Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer in the U.S., a leading researcher said. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 per cent of cancer deaths in men and 20 per cent in women, compared with about 30 per cent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He said research is producing increasing evidence associating obesity with a variety of cancers.
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Study on kinnow for anti-cancer properties
The Horticulture Department is initiating a study to check if a natural compound found in kinnow can be used for treating cancer patients and help in lowering cholesterol in the blood. The department has approached the Punjab Farmers Commission to either have a collaboration with the PGI or some other national-level institute to examine and study if limonene available in kinnow is useful for treating patients. The volume of limonene is of the same amount as vitamin C in the fruit.
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War on tobacco
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. The anti-tobacco lobby is learning to use that dictum to its advantage. Gory and graphic pictures of cancer stricken patients occupy 30 per cent of the surface of a cigarette packet in countries like Thailand, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia. As a result, say anti-tobacco lobbyists, tobacco use has fallen.
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Cow dung smoke could cause arsenic poisoning
using cow dung as cooking fuel could expose people to arsenic. A recent study shows villagers on the Ganga Meghna Brahmaputra plain were exposed to smoke containing high levels of arsenic
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Trials and TRIPS-ulations: Indian patent law and Novartis ag v. Union of India
When pharmaceutical company Novartis challenged the rejection of its patent application for the leukemia drug Gleevec in Novartis AG v. Union of India, it became the first major legal challenge to India’s
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Cancer facts and figures 2008
This publication attempts to summarize current scientific information about cancer. It presents data on cancer incidence, mortality, survival, cancer risk factors, and annual estimates of expected new cases and deaths.
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Yellow metal can fight cancer
tiny gold particles are effective antidotes to lung cancer. The particles selectively destroy A549, a certain type of human lung cancer cells. This may be an important step in developing
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Compound in toad skin could cure liver cancer
a compound found in the Indian toad's skin can cure liver and blood cancer. The compound, called bm-anf 1, has been found to prevent the growth of cancer cells in experiments conducted by the
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Spitting it out
the Chhattisgarh government is planning to ban gutka (chewing tobacco) from January next year. Though talks of banning the flavoured chewing tobacco have been going on for the past two years,