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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Asthma and allergy
There s more to diesel than cancer. And at the receiving end is poor people
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Deadly compound
Now, even babies are being exposed to the cancer causing dioxin
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Spicy solution
Cloves can stop hazardous asbestos fibres from escaping into the air
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Pollutants in space
Do cancer causing compounds exist beyond earth s atmosphere?
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Toxin trial blazer
Cost effective and easy way to test aflatoxin contamination evolved
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Toxic, but preferred
Mother's milk contains carcinogenic toxins. But health authorities still advocate breast feeding as the benefits far outweigh the risks. According to a report of the Com mittee on Toxicity of
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Authorities cluelessÀ Carcinogen NP in a large number of products in India.
Ana M Soto, professor at the Tufts Medical School at Massachusetts in the us, made an important discovery while working with breast cancer cells in 1989. She found that some of the tissues were
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Baby food contaminated with endocrine disruptor bisphenol A
baby food is contaminated with a chemical that could possibly lead to cancer or neurobehavioural disorders. Invest-igations by Environ-mental Working Group (ewg), a us -based public interest
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Foul delight
Chicken laced with arsenic
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Power off
Pesticides can affect the cells