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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Farm fatale
Rise in non Hodgkin s lymphoma and other forms of cancer cases linked to farming activities
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Valley in danger
a recent study conducted by environmentalist Banke Behari Das and his team has warned that people living in Orissa's Sukinda valley will be exposed to high levels of toxic pollution. The region
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Extinction threat
A recent decision by the Himachal Pradesh government may not be good news to the endangered Himalayan yew (Taxus baccata). The government has allowed collection and export of yew, which is in great
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Let off
Tobacco companies get a reprieve in the UK. How will Asia fare?
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Winner: big tobacco
A major anti tobacco case falls flat in the UK
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Closing shop
A ban on incinerators is on the anvil in Saitama, Japan<br>
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Houston, we ve a tumour
Docking a space shuttle and detecting tumours NASA s new neural network does both with aplomb<br>
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Extinction threat
A recent decision by the Himachal Pradesh government may not be good news to the endangered Himalayan yew (Taxus baccata). The government has allowed collection and export of yew, which is in great
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Shroud for a crusader
For 35 years, Adhurai fought against Grasim Industries for polluting the environment in his village in Kerala. No one heard him. But after he died of cancer induced by the pollution, a mass agitation threatens to down Grasim s shutters forever
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Guidelines to be revised
THE Japanese government is considering revising its guidelines on gene therapy. Current rules, introduced in 1994, allow only researchers to use gene therapy in the treatment of serious life