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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India, US tie their first IPR knot
the fight for access to a generic version of a cancer drug is likely to get more problematic. India's ministry of commerce and industry has signed a memorandum of understanding (mou) with the us
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Epidemiological studies of pesticide exposed individuals and their clinical implications
Epidemiological studies were conducted in pesticide exposed agricultural workers along with an equal number of age- and sex-matched controls. All the 200 exposed volunteers were suffering from fever, nausea, headache and other abnormal symptoms and visited the hospital for general health check-up. These cases
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Taking TRIPS to India — Novartis, patent law, and access to medicines
In August and September 2006, patients with cancer, lawyers for patient advocacy groups, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) converged on the offices of Novartis in Mumbai, India,
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Bytes
mobile friendly: Researchers have found no link between mobile phone use and cancer. They used mobile-phone companies' records to gauge phone usage. They tracked subjects for an average of 8.5
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Carcinogenic enzymes blocked in human body
humans are more prone to cancer because of their body mass. However, nature has protected us somewhat from this risk by disallowing the secretion of an enzyme that rapidly heals damaged cells but
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Chemical in curry leaves can cure prostate cancer
curry leaves do not just satiate taste buds. Scientists have discovered a new aspect to the leaves; the possibility of curing prostate cancer. Researchers from Santiniketan-based Visva-Bharati
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Reported residential pesticide use and breast cancer risk on Long Island, New York
Pesticides, common environmental exposures, have been examined in relation to breast cancer primarily in occupational studies or exposure biomarker studies. No known studies have focused on self-reported
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Non toxic remedy for cancer
<font class="UCASE">there</font> may now be a non-toxic cancer remedy in place. It is the only one, claim scientists of the Kolkata-based Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. According to them, methylglyoxal in combination with ascorbic acid has been found to have significant curative effects on cancer patients.<br><br> The study published in the website of the journal <i>Cancer Therapy</i> earlier this year says that 39 per cent patients had complete remission and 39 per cent had partial regression of the disease, after they were given the combination.<br>
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Labour Body Acts
ILO s resolution against asbestos
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South Asia
Shrimp trade marred: Shrimp, the second largest export commodity from Bangladesh to the European Union (EU), might lose its huge market, as the group is considering blacklisting a good number of