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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Dry cleaning pollutes
A domestic but prolific generator of organochlorines is the homely dry-cleaning business. Over 90 per cent of alndry-'ters use chlorine-based perchloroethylene (perc) to clean clothes. Some 3
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Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas
Blames others for its failures. Is raring to destroy the CNG market by hiking prices
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Statutory warning
Over 15 billion cigarettes are smoked everyday!
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It's whales today, but it could be you tomorrow
Industrial pollution along Canada's southeastern coast and its fatal results form the theme of BBC's Death on the St Lawrence.
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Non smoking beedi rollers face cancer risk
About six million people employed in India's beedi industry risk developing cancer from handling tobacco leaves
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That toaster could give you cancer
Scientists are embroiled in a controversy on whether electromagnetic fields generated by power lines and household electrical devices can cause cancer
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Breasting cancer
A pair of genes responsible for causing breast cancer have been nabbed
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Cancer congress
The battle against the disease intensifies
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Fatal fags
Smoking cigarettes could soon become the leading cause of adult death in the world
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Chlorine in nature
The US Environmental Protection Agency is likely to cut down or ban the production of chlorine and compounds containing it. However, many scientists believe that even were manufacture of