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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Can Cola Give You Cancer? Its Food Coloring Might
Let's be honest, a LOT of things can supposedly give you cancer, especially considering that cancer is nothing more than mutated cells forgetting where they are supposed to be. Radiation, toxins, and even
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U.P. officials fined for failure to reply to NGT notice on river pollution
The district magistrates and five Senior Superintendents of Police in western Uttar Pradesh have been fined by the National Green Tribunal for their repeated failure to reply to its notice on polluted
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Climate forced air-quality modeling at urban scale: sensitivity to model resolution, emissions and meteorology
While previous research helped to identify and prioritize the sources of error in air quality modeling due to anthropogenic emissions and spatial scale effects our knowledge is limited on how these uncertainties
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U.P. officials fined for not replying to NGT notice on river pollution
The district magistrates and five Senior Superintendents of Police in western Uttar Pradesh have been fined by the National Green Tribunal for their repeated failure to reply to its notice on polluted
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Menopausal hormone use and ovarian cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of 52 epidemiological studies
Half the epidemiological studies with information about menopausal hormone therapy and ovarian cancer risk remain unpublished, and some retrospective studies could have been biased by selective participation
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Improving health and well-being independently of GDP: dividends of greener and prosocial economies
Increases in gross domestic product (GDP) beyond a threshold of basic needs do not lead to further increases in well-being. An explanation is that material consumption (MC) also results in negative health
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Hyderabad adds 2,400 cancer cases every year: Report
A staggering 2,400 fresh cancer cases are reported in Hyderabad every year, according to preliminary data gathered under the centrally-funded Population Based Cancer Registry (PBCR). Greater Hyderabad
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Community perceptions of health and chronic disease in South Indian rural transitional communities: a qualitative study
Chronic diseases are now the leading cause of death and disability worldwide; this epidemic has been linked to rapid economic growth and urbanisation in developing countries. Understanding how characteristics
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792 cancer patients given free treatment
Cancer patients in Hoshiarpur district have been provided more than Rs 8.72 crore under the Chief Minister’s Cancer Relief Fund for undergoing free treatment at empanelled hospitals. Deputy Commissioner
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Cancer cases may rise sharply: WHO
Over eight million people died of the disease in 2012 The number of new cancer cases is expected to rise by about 70 per cent globally over the next two decades, the World Health Organisation has cautioned.