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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KOLKATA:Particulate trap for the young
Forty three per cent of the children in urban Kolkata suffer from respiratory disorders. In rural Kolkata the figure dips to 14 per cent. A study conducted by analysing the effect of air pollution on
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DELHI:Capital punishment
The World Bank in 1995 came out with an estimate of health effects based on 1992 air quality data
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Malignant trials
Did Kerala’s Regional Cancer Centre use unsuspecting patients as guinea pigs to conduct drug tests?
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Key findings of the EPA report
- Cancer risk from dioxins among people eating large amounts of fatty meats and dairy products. - Dioxin exposure linked to a variety of health problems, including diabetes, developmental problems
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Toxic tales from God's own country
As deformity cases swell in Kerala s Kasaragod district, the silent screams of the victims fall on the deaf ears of the government
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Safe chemotherapy
A chemotherapy drug with few side effects has been developed by the University of Maryland's Greenebaum Cancer Center, in Baltimore, USA. The drug prevents further division of mutated cancerous
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Inducing cancer
Vitamin C, an essential nutrient found in fruits and vegetables, is a double-edged sword, providing benefits and also inducing the production of compounds associated with cancer, say researchers at
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Coughing up
Tobacco giant Philip Morris pays a record compensation to a smoker suffering from lung cancer
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A view to a kill
Accurate descriptions of cell demise offer treatments for diseases such as cancer
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White death
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