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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Mapping the fission yeast
Scientists have mapped all the genes of the fission yeast (Schizosaccha romyces pombe), which they hope will provide new insights into basic cell biology. An international team led by Paul Nurse of
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Ban proposed
the European Commission has given its go-ahead to imposing restrictions by 2003 on the public use of 43 chemicals which could cause cancer, damage reproduction or pose a danger to human genes.
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Virtual reality
A new computing laboratory can project larger than real life images of human body s smallest part
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Discovering mutations
Up to 20 per cent of women with inherited breast cancer have a mutation in the gene that is responsible for repairing damage by radiation therapy. A team, comprising Australian and German
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Brainstorming
Brain tumours can be caused by a virus that affects many children
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Lethal link
An expert on toxicology and a campaigner deeply concerned with the health impact of chemical pesticides, <font class="UCASE">Romeo F Quijano </font> was at the forefront of getting a ban imposed on endosulfan
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Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution
Associations have been found between day-to-day particulate air pollution and increased risk of various adverse health outcomes, including cardiopulmonary mortality. However, studies of health effects of long-term particulate air pollution have been less conclusive.
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Vague verdict
Report on endosulfan raises more questions than it answers
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Cancer vaccine
A vaccine effective against human papillomaviruses (HPV), which are thought responsible for most cases of cervical and anal cancers, enters clinical trials in Japan this month. If the trial is
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Predicting cancer
A simple blood test might be used successfully to predict the chances of a person contracting lung cancer. Researchers at Columbia University, New York, USA, used blood samples that had been