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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Proving its metal
A plant derivative can kill cancer cells by targeting at their high iron concentration
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Nurturing the future
A comprehensive set of rules is essential to regulate research and facilitate commercialisation in biotechnology. <font class='UCASE'>Patricia Sierra Bl zquez</font> , director of the Centre of Molecular Immunology <font class='UCASE'>CIM</font> , Cu
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Talking numbers
Researchers use data to make assessments and suggest preventive strategies
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Gross underestimates!
Down To Earth got hold of data that ICMR refused to share. But these figures are frighteningly improbable. Could Delhi s cancer incidence really be declining?
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Expanse of the cancer web
Expanse of the cancer web Some cancers are common for all cities. New ones are emerging Mumbai Chennai Males Females Males
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FOLLOW UP
The prestigious Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, US , has admitted that one of its researchers used patients at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) in Kerala as human guinea pigs to
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Underestimated threat
the us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) has greatly underestimated the cancer risks of arsenic in drinking water, indicates a study of the National Academy of Sciences. Following the
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Vindicated!
the controversy over the cancer drug trial at the Regional Cancer Centre of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, has taken a new turn. A high power team, set up by the Union health ministry to probe the
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We have to reduce the exposure of people to diesel exhaust
<font class='UCASE'>Daniel Greenbaum</font> , president and the chief executive officer of the US based Health Effects Institute, has done pioneering work on the health effects of air pollution. During his recent visit to India, he spoke to <font cla
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Smokescreen
Philip Morris remitted from paying record compensation