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
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
Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and shed the added risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday. Health Guide: Smoking
Three years ago the Ramakrishna* family were waiting for their life to end in their village on the outskirts of the city. It was not just that their young son had cancer. It was that in trying to meet the cost of his treatment, the family had sold everything they owned and run themselves deep into debt. The head of the family, a poor priest, could not hope to pay back what he had borrowed. Luckily for them, a cancer hospital and a patient support group stepped in and the boy got treatment for free.
ALMOST without exception, scientists and policy makers agree that hybrid vehicles are good for the planet. To a small but insistent group of skeptics, however, there is another, more immediate question: Are hybrids healthy for drivers? There is a legitimate scientific reason for raising the issue. The flow of electrical current to the motor that moves a hybrid vehicle at low speeds (and assists the gasoline engine on the highway) produces magnetic fields, which some studies have associated with serious health matters, including a possible risk of leukemia among children.
Among the cancer patients of the country, around 30 percent are suffering from head and neck cancer. Smoking, chewing tobacco leaves and taking alcohol cause high risk for mouth, vocal cord and lung cancer, specialists told a seminar in the city yesterday. ENT department of Medical College for Women and Hospital at Uttara organised the seminar as part of the observation of "ENT, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week'. Former president Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury was present in the seminar as the chief guest.
The state government is taking out a massive immunisation programme to protect adolescent girls against cervical cancer. This is the first programme of its kind in the country and is being undertaken with the help of the World Health Organisation. "We are going to take up a pilot project in the state from next month," said the joint director (immunology), Dr G. Srinivasa Rao.
Among the many environmental concerns surrounding nuclear power plants, there is one that provokes public anxiety like no other: the fear that children living near nuclear facilities face an increased risk of cancer. Though a link has long been suspected, it has never been proven. Now that seems likely to change.
A new generation of drugs made from nature, from antibiotics to treatments for cancer, may be lost unless the world acts to stop biodiversity loss, according to a new book. These developments could come from chemicals made by frogs, bears and pine trees, but the authors of "Sustaining Life" warned that species loss from climate change and pollution would hit the future of medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.
Researchers, investigating how blood vessel growth keeps cancers alive, claim to have made a breakthrough that could boost the chances of successfully treating life-threatening tumours.
Extracts from a mushroom used for centuries in Eastern Asian medicine may stop breast cancer cells from growing and could become a new weapon in the fight against the killer disease, scientists said. Laboratory tests using human breast cancer cells show the mushroom called Phellinus linteus has a marked anti-cancer effect, probably by blocking an enzyme called AKT. Dr Daniel Sliva of the Methodist Research Institute in Indianapolis said the it reduced uncontrolled growth of new cancer cells, suppressed their aggressive behavior and blocked new tumor-feeding blood vessels.
Eating just one sausage a day, or the equivalent of any processed meat, could increase the risk of developing bowel cancer by a fifth, says a leading scientist. Martin Wiseman, medical adviser for the World Cancer Research Fund, said people eating 50g of processed meat a day