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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Rajasthan health dept to hire for free medicine scheme
JAIPUR: To boost free medicine scheme in the state, the health department has approved contractual recruitment of around more than 3,700 employees for the financial year 2019-20. Ever since Ashok Gehlot-led
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HPV vaccine to be regular, India to be rid of cervical cancer in 60 years: Study
The study estimates that vaccination and screening could result in cervical cancer being eliminated as a public health problem, with average rates across countries falling to less than 4 cases per 1 lakh
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Scientists create device to detect cancers through breath
Making cancer detection more easy and quick, scientists developed a cancer-detecting breathalyzer that can detect cancer just through a person’s breath and have already begun its clinical trials. A UK-based
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Women’s health in Ethiopia: facts & figures
This brochure provides insights into women’s main health issues in Ethiopia e.g. reproductive health; breast and cervical cancer; violence against women and girls, because of the related health issues
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Breathing, in a time of pollution
Getting a device that measures pollution turns nameless fears into numbers. Doubt turns into a quantitative fact. Air turns certifiably into poison. Some illusions die quickly. Open green spaces do not
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Top drugmakers not doing enough to provide medicines to poor countries: Report
Many of the world's top drugmakers are not doing enough to provide medicines to poor countries, leaving big gaps in access to treatments in crucial disease areas, including cancer, according to a new report
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Number of cancer cases up by 15.7 per cent since 2012
A total of 11.57 lakh cancer cases was reported in India this year, a 15.7 per cent increase over the 10 lakh cases reported in 2012, Ravi Mehrotra, director of Indian Council of Medical Research’s National
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Association of frequency of organic food consumption with cancer risk
<p>Worldwide, the number of new cases of cancer was estimated in 2012 at more than 14 million, and cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality in France. Among the environmental risk factors
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Air pollution may up mouth cancer risk
High levels of air pollutants especially fine particulate matter may increase the risk of developing mouth cancer, a study has found. The number of new cases, and deaths from, mouth cancer is increasing
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Obesity, and not smoking, could be the biggest cause of cancer in women
In India, according to a 2012 report in The Lancet as quoted by Medical News Today, breast cancer is one of the most common problems among women here. A new report in Cancer Research UK suggests obesity