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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TAIWAN
Three executives and 19 workers of two companies were charged with dumping tons of toxic waste into a river in southern Taiwan. Prosecutors said that the executives could be sentenced to life
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The MTBE joke
The way to clean up the air is to pollute groundwater, according to the Indian government
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How cells function
A normal cell does not live forever. It kills itself to make space for younger cells. During their lifespan, cells proli ferate continuously to maintain a constant cell count. This tendency to commit
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Genes, Dreams and Reality
Don't blame your genes. Environment and lifestyle cause cancer
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Tea: a health drink?
Recent research indicates that drinking tea can prevent cancer and heart diseases. However, not everyone is buying this idea
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Cancerous gene
A team of geneticists in the UK has located a mutant gene that increases the risk of a common type of testicular cancer by fifty fold. Testicular germ-cell cancer is the commonest cancer among young
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Our discovery can help cancer patients
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Amarnath Maitra</font> </font>, professor in the department of chemistry, University of Delhi, has developed a new way of administering drugs to the human body. He spoke to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Nidhi J
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Toxic houses
a study conducted by uk -based ici (Imperial Chemical Industries) on the long-term effects of dumping chemicals in quarries near Runcorn, Cheshire, uk has turned up some
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Clean up time
as france pressed on with mopping-up operations to cleanse parts of its Atlantic coastline polluted by an oil spill recently, a Dutch orinthologist said that oil from the sunken tanker Erika may
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Haunted past
The Union Carbide concealed information about radiation levels in a uranium plant for 20 years. Murky details are coming to light now