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 they influence health outcomes. It is imperative to bridge these gaps amid the ongoing epidemiological, nutritional and demographic transitions that are bringing …
GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging Caribbean countries to take urgent action to meet global targets to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). According to a new WHO report, 16 million people die prematurely annually before the age of 70 from heart and lung …
Air pollution inside the home is putting people at risk of developing heart disease, cancer and breathing problems, experts have today warned. Toxic Home Syndrome, which affects around 15.3 million houses in the UK, is where a person's health deteriorates because of the air circulating in their home. Scientists have …
Scientists have developed 10 new antibodies that starve tumours of oxygen and can help in the battle against cancer. They work by inhibiting blood vessel formation close to the tumour, which is thereby cut off from oxygen and nutrient supply . The researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have tested …
GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) –The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging Caribbean countries to take urgent action to meet global targets to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). According to a new WHO report, 16 million people die prematurely annually – before the age of 70 – from heart and …
MIAMI – When heated to the max and inhaled deeply, e-cigarettes produce the toxic chemical formaldehyde, which could make the devices up to 15 times more cancerous than regular cigarettes, U.S. researchers said Wednesday. E-cigarettes are battery powered devices that heat up a liquid containing nicotine and artificial flavoring. The …
Australians no longer believe a tan is something to aspire to, but too many still get sunburnt and put themselves at risk of potentially deadly skin cancers, the Cancer Council says. Almost 600,000 Victorians still get sunburnt on a typical summer weekend, many through incidental sun exposure, a survey released …
The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday that it had not found any carcinogenic substance in groundwater samples taken from villages in and around Chhapraula, where a high number of cancer cases have been reported. Though the Lucknow-based Indian Institute of Toxicology …
Urgent government action is needed to meet global targets to reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and prevent the annual toll of 16 million people dying prematurely – before the age of 70 – from heart and lung diseases, stroke, cancer and diabetes, according to a new WHO report. …
In a significant move, the National Green Tribunal has prohibited cultivation of edible crop on the floodplains of Yamuna here, saying the vegetables grown there were “highly contaminated” and their consumption could lead to cancer. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, in a recent judgement, said the …
Medical science continues to make incredible head ways in treating and preventing cancer. Now, some health researchers estimate that it's likely that no one under the age of 80 will die of this health problem by 2050. Many believe that the simple secret could involve take a daily low-dose of …
TWO garbage incineration plants are being allowed to operate illegally by the government in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, it is alleged, forcing residents to move and sickening many of those left behind. The plants, in the city’s Guodingshan of Hanyang districts, were built in 2012 to burn …
Around 30 million cases of skin cancer will be prevented by 2030, thanks to successful implementation of the Montreal Protocol and its amendments says this new report produced by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) of the Montreal Protocol. The report details various effects of UV radiation on human health, …
The number of people in the UK who have cancer will reach a record high of 2.5 million this year, up 400,000 from five years ago, according to a charity. Macmillan Cancer Support says the rise is largely due to improvements in treatment and detection, with 1.6 million diagnosed at …
The incidence of oral cancer is the highest in Odisha among States due to widespread intake of tobacco products in various forms. Dr BK Dash, Director of the Utkal Institute of Medical Sciences (UIMS), the only nuclear medicine centre in Odisha, said this here on Monday while speaking at a …
A month after the environmental NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) collected water samples from various spots in six villages around Greater Noida's Chhapraula area to probe if there was a connection between ground water contamination and rising incidence of cancer in the region, researchers said on Sunday their …
Even as India is struggling hard to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) including maternal and infant mortality rate, the Finance Ministry's bid to cut more than `6,000 crore in the Health Ministry's budget of around `31,000 crore is likely to have an adverse impact on its efforts to …
Tea and coffee are the most commonly consumed beverages in the worldwide. The relationship between tea and coffee consumption on the risk of laryngeal cancer was still unclear. Relevant studies were identified by searching electronic database (Medline and EMBASE) and reviewing the reference lists of relevant articles until Oct. 2013. …
Assessment of progress in cancer control at the population level is increasingly important. Population-based survival trends provide a key insight into the overall effectiveness of the health system, alongside trends in incidence and mortality. For this purpose, the researchers aimed to provide a unique measure of cancer survival.
Humans have coevolved with their microbes over thousands of years, but this relationship, is now being dramatically affected by shifts in the collective human microbiome resulting from changes in the environment and societal norms. Resulting perturbations of intestinal host-microbe interactions can lead to miscues and altered host responses that increase …
GREATER NOIDA: A team of researchers from the Delhi-based research and advocacy organization Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) visited the Greater Noida villages of Sadopur, Bisnoli and Khera Dharampur in the Chhapraula area to investigate the causes behind an apparent rise in cancer incidents in the area over the …
