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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Passive Payback
A former bar worker, who developed throat cancer while working at an Australian club, has been awarded a compensation of US $450,000. Marlene Sharp, 62, a non-smoker, who worked at the Port Kembla
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Genomics could help cure cancer
<font class='UCASE'>Eugene W Myers</font> , vice president for informatics research at Celera Genomics, <font class='UCASE'>usa</font> , is the brain behind computer applications used to assemble the genomes, he speaks to <font class='UCASE'>Nitin Seth
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Smoking unabated
Women in the US continue to puff one too many<br>
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Ayurvedic cure
A proposal to set up ayurvedic centres in hospitals across the country to treat cancer patients is on the anvil
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PUERTO RICO
The residents of Vieques, a Puerto Rican island, have achieved a landmark victory in a long-standing dispute about the us navy's activities on their island. The us navy uses Vieques to
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Suffocating Kolkata
Air pollution has put the city of joy on top of the lung cancer map in the country
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Cancerous spread
at least 150 people suffering from lung cancer have been admitted in the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) during the past six months. A special type of lung
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PUERTO RICO
The us navy tests in Vieques, an island of Puerto Rico, have caused an increase of cancer cases on the island by 52 per cent. Medical reports show that cancer cases among the 9,300 Viequenses
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but why CNG?
Particles in diesel exhaust are toxic and can harm the foetus. Given the high levels of particulate pollution in Delhi, CNG is the cleanest option available
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The CNG sabotage
To clean up Delhi's air, the Supreme Court ruled in July 1998 that all public transport should move away from diesel and towards compressed natural gas CNG By March 31, 2001. But the Union government and the Delhi state government have done nothing apar