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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Malignant!
Cancer incidence is rising. Hope for treatment in pegged on molecular biology
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Massive assault
<font class='UCASE'>Vo Quy</font> is semi retired, but still officially heads the Center for Natural Resources Management and Environmental Studies at the University of Hanoi in Vietnam. Vietnam s leading ecologist, he has played an instrumental role in
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Arsenic
Human negotiation with its own capacities and actions often tends to be triumphalist. A man admires his muscled torso; an elite believes itself to be the omphalos
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Wah India
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But what has the state done?
The 1970s and 1980s were a time of massive state investment in rural water development. Not only had more land to be brought under irrigation, but also drinking water supplied. These decades saw an
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Wahtech
The official attitude towards fluoride-laced groundwater is best seen in the manner the state has gone about solutions. In a 1999 nationwide study New Delhi-based Fluorosis Research and Rural
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The dark zone
When <i>Down To Earth</i> correspondents <font class='UCASE'>nidhi jamwal</font> and <font class='UCASE'>d b manisha</font> started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater, we were shocked by the extent of the problem
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New found addiction: What will the government do in May 2003?
The Union budget provides cancer stick manufacturers and sellers huge reasons to feel puffed. The excise duty on nicotine the narcotic used to spike tobacco with has been reduced from 16 per cent to 8 per cent. An excise duty has been levied on chewing
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How to minimise chlorination s adverse health affects
Compromising with a necessary evil: this is literally true for chlorination the most widely used technology for disinfecting drinking water. A recent study by Spain based Municipal Institute of Medical Research once again establishes that long term expo
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Cancer cure for sure
An out of body operation stirs interest