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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Washed and cleaned
Can household detergents fight cancer? Canadian scientists think they can
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Trial by fire
The Union Health and Family Welfare ministry finally accepts an Ayurvedic treatment of leukaemia
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Pepped up by peptides
A follow up to an earlier report on how experts are targeting blood vessels that nurture cancers
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MONEYMAKERS
SIDE-EFFECTS: The France-based Roche Holding AC, has planned to withdraw its drug for high blood pressure, Posicor, as its interaction with other medicines is poor. Long term clinical trials have
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CHINA
Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes are the major causes of death in China today. According to a report published by the national health economics institute, more
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Benzene in the air
Levels of carcinogenic pollutants are alarmingly high in Calcutta s air
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Toying with danger?
No Europe wide ban on potentially dangerous chemicals used in plastic toys
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Two nations, one disease
In the remote regions of China, American and Chinese doctors fight against several diseases, including the Big killer: cancer
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Cancer cure
Medical science may soon declare cancer, a disease that has eluded it for years, dead
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Brain drain
Are X rays damaging the brains of foetuses?