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 …
Recent studies conducted between December 2015 and March 2016 by the PGIMER, Chandigarh, has found that pictorial health warnings on packs of tobacco products do motivate people to quit. Vini Mahajan, Principal Secretary, Health, said, “The study has thrown up interesting data, including the data regarding impact of pictorial health …
Zimbabwe continues to choke under the burden of diseases like Aids and cancer, but very little has been documented on the use and properties of complementary and alternative therapies. While the bulk of the population at one point or another uses complementary medicine, there is no serious attempt by stakeholders …
Hears Plea On Making Packets Colourless The Supreme Court on Tuesday surprised many by asking whether there was conclusive proof to say that smoking cigarettes caused cancer. Hearing a petition seeking to make cigarette packets colourless to render them visually unattractive, a bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and …
Oral Cancer Among Women On Rapid Decline: National Cancer Registry The use of tobacco, the leading cause of preventable death, has for the first time begun to decline across country . Data from the first phase of National Family Health Survey released by the Union health ministry shows a dip …
A ground-breaking technique that hunts out cancer cells using the patient's own immune system has been hailed as a revolutionary way to treat or even cure cancer. A team from University College London has discovered that on the surface of every cell in a patient's tumour is a biological "flag" …
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs Programme identifies chemicals, drugs, mixtures, occupational exposures, lifestyles and personal habits, and physical and biological agents that cause cancer in humans and has evaluated about 1000 agents since 1971. Monographs are written by ad hoc Working Groups (WGs) of international scientific …
Researchers have found that electronic cigarettes contained one million times more cancer-causing substances than outdoor air. They also discovered a type of flame retardant in the product, which affected the reproductive system and could lead to cancer. The study was conducted by the Hong Kong Baptist University and was commissioned …
The objective of the study was to assess the validity of the GLOBOCAN methods for deriving national estimates of cancer incidence. The researchers obtained incidence and mortality data from Norway by region, year of diagnosis, cancer site, sex and 5-year age group for the period 1983–2012 from the NORDCAN database. …
The HPV vaccine protects people against the group of 150-odd HPVs, some of which can cause cervical cancer. Delhi has become the first state in the country to launch the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as a public health programme for school children. Health Minister Satyendar Jain Monday said girls studying …
Oncologists Are Divided On The Issue As the Indian government toys with the idea of offering the cervical cancer vaccine to all girl children as part of its national immunisation plan, the issue divided a gathering of national and international oncologists at the Tata NCPA in Mumbai on Saturday . …
Leading doctors and telecom expertsdiscussed scientific facts pertaining to electromagnetic radio frequency (EMF) here yesterday. They said there was no relation between mobile phone tower radiation and cancer or other health hazard. They categorically denied that there was any link between EMF emissions and human health. Dr N Eshwar Chandra, …
Smokers The Office for National Statistics has reported a rise in cancer cases just days after statistics indicated that the number of people quitting smoking is decreasingMatt Cardy/Getty Cancer is on the rise in England, with the latest statistics indicating that at least 813 new cases are recorded every day. …
The health ministry has chalked out an overarching National Multi-Sectoral Action Plan with the aim to reduce premature deaths from cancer, diabetes and heart diseases by 25% in the next 10 years (by 2025). The plan, which includes initiatives and measures from at least 27 government departments including ministries like …
Did you know that the air we are breathing now, could cause lung diseases, stroke, respiratory diseases like COPD, asthma, cancer and even death in some cases? In the past few years, there has been an alarming rise in air pollutants. Keeping in mind the ever increasing pollution levels across …
In a survey that began in April 2014 to check the impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, 16 children have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 35 are suspected of having the disease, a prefectural government panel said Monday. Most of them were thought to be problem free when …
Having exhausted all treatment options, some cancer patients are seeking to undergo clinical trials ast Friday, Ashok (name changed), an accountant, went through the morning ritual: bath, a dab of his favourite perfume, a bright blue T-shirt and a smile. Nothing out of the ordinary, except that he felt the …
British researchers have identified a key protein that can control how breast cancer cells spread in the body. The study sheds light on how cancer cells leave the blood vessels to travel to a new part of the body, said the researchers from University of Manchester in Britain. When tumour …
Noting that outdoor air pollution increases the risk of cancer, World Health Organization (WHO) urged the governments of Southeast Asian region to tackle the issue with "urgency" as the area has 14 of the world's top 20 polluted cities. WHO said that every year 8.2 million people die from the …
In what could be an alarming fallout of air pollution, top cancer doctors say they have noted a significant rise in lung cancer among non-smokers in recent years. Roughly one in every five persons diagnosed with the disease does not smoke, they said. "Till about a decade ago, less than …
New Delhi: Even as cancer is fast taking epidemic proportions in India, the country is facing severe shortage of care- givers with merely 2000 oncologists to look after around 10 million patients. Besides, there is also a dearth of surgical oncologists and radio-therapists, who play a crucial role in cancer …
