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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Figure it out
WHO underestimates Chernobyl, claims Greenpeace
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Bytes
3d mouse: Scientists in the US have developed a fast, high-resolution, 3D mouse embryo visualisation technique that may revolutionise the way birth defects and cancer genes are studied in animal
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Subterranean blues
Subsoil carcinogens possible cause of cancer in Punjab
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Chernobyl
Twenty years ago on April 26, 1986 the biggest nuclear disaster happened in Chernobyl, in what was then the Soviet Union, when a chain reaction went out of control and blew the lid off the reactor. The fallout has been catastrophic, with the resulting
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Test case
The case of Gleevec, a cancer drug required for 24,000 patients suffering from chronic myeloid leukaemia in India, highlights the problem with tough patenting regimes, including data exclusivity, in
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Shoved under
The Pentagon has stalled efforts to clean water supplies contaminated by a carcinogenic chemical despite evidence that it posed a significant health risk to millions of people, the Los Angeles Times
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Power switch
Drives cell like a hybrid car
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Cannabis prescription
Can help treat cancer and gut disease
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Cadmium and cancer
New study offers strong support for a link
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Superiority complex
A patent application filed in India by the Swiss pharmaceutical com pany, Novartis ag, has been rejected. The company had filed for an Indian patent for the crystalline version of their off-patent