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 …
Stung by a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report that said the probability of people dying prematurely of leading non-communicable diseases (NCDs) was the highest in India among all SAARC nations, the government has decided to work on lowering the cost of anti-cancer drugs and cardiovascular stents. Health Ministry sources …
Experts identified Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) as the biggest killer in NE and advised the states to go for massive prevention and control mechanism of the diseases. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientist Dr Prabhdeaep Kaur said on Thursday that they have launched a study in the region covering each …
5,000 cases of blood cancer are reported in Gujarat every year and the survival rate is as low as 10 per cent and 20 per cent, according to a senior doctor of a hospital in Gandhinagar. "There are 5,000 new cases in the state every year, but the exact cause …
Children exposed to insecticides at home may have a slightly increased risk of developing leukemia or lymphoma, a new review finds. The analysis, of 16 studies done since the 1990s, found that children exposed to indoor insecticides had an elevated risk of developing the blood cancers. There was also a …
Health officials seeking to curb the country's fast increasing cancer rate are implementing a three-year nationwide plan that expands cancer screening, registration and prevention while reducing smoking. Cancer has become a major public health problem, with some 2 million people dying of cancer every year and more than 3 million …
Breast cancer is the leading cause of female cancer burden, and its incidence has increased by more than 20% worldwide since 2008. Some observational studies have suggested that the Mediterranean diet may reduce the risk of breast cancer. Original Source
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned member nations against the return to pre-antibiotic era on account of excessive and indiscriminate use of life-saving medicines and their over-the-counter sales. The concern was expressed this week at the South East Asia Region meeting of the WHO at Dili, capital of Timor-Leste …
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT – Federal regulators are pulling the plug on a five-year study of the risk of cancer in communities around six U.S. nuclear plants and a nuclear fuel site. Remaining work on a pilot study would take too long, at more than three years, and cost too much, at …
At its weekly cabinet meeting yesterday, the government approved a plan to reduce air pollution in the Haifa Bay area up to half by 2018. The plan was submitted by Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabbay, together with the ministers of finance, transportation and health. The plan will cost 115 million …
DHS has come up with revised policies and guidelines to fight H1N1, dengue and leptospirosis. REALISING THAT the state’s public health department needs to remain better equipped to tackle the outbreak of communicable diseases, the special committee appointed by the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) has come up with a …
Elemental composition of PM2.5 and PM10 was measured from 16 locations in Greater Kolkata in Eastern India. Sampling was carried out in the winter months of 2013–2014. PM2.5 and PM10 mass concentrations ranged from 83–783 μg/m3 and 167–928 μg/m3 respectively. 20 elements were measured with an Agilent 7700 series ICP–MS …
Cancer is killing 1 in every 10 people in South East Asia region. Eleven health ministers from the region and the World Health Organization are meeting in two weeks to deal with what they are calling "an important public health priority". WHO says "it is a matter of serious concern …
An increase in thyroid cancer among children is unlikely after the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant four years ago, but it remains unclear exactly how much radiation children in the vicinity of the plant were exposed to, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said in a report released on Monday. …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed new restrictions on tobacco advertising that take effect in China on Tuesday. "WHO strongly supports the introduction of new restrictions on tobacco advertising contained in China’s revised Advertising Law which takes effect this week," said Bernhard Schwartländer, WHO Representative in China. "Banning all …
The SQUIRE trial demonstrated that adding necitumumab to chemotherapy for patients with metastatic squamous cell lung cancer (mSqCLC) increased median overall survival by 1.6 months (hazard ratio, 0.84). However, the costs and value associated with this intervention remains unclear. Value-based pricing links the price of a drug to the benefit …
Hydraulic fracturing technologies, developed over the last 65 years, have only recently been combined with horizontal drilling to unlock oil and gas reserves previously deemed inaccessible. While these technologies have dramatically increased domestic oil and natural gas production, they have also raised concerns for the potential contamination of local water …
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent data sources to enable comparisons of health loss over time and across causes, age–sex groups, and countries. The GBD can be used to …
Mice exposed to high levels of arsenic in utero are more susceptible to tumors such as hepatic and pulmonary carcinoma when they reach adulthood. However, effects of in utero arsenic exposure on general physiological functions such as reproduction and metabolism remain unclear. The researchers evaluated the effect of in utero …
China has recently made available hourly air pollution data from over 1500 sites, including airborne particulate matter (PM), SO2, NO2, and O3. We apply Kriging interpolation to four months of data to derive pollution maps for eastern China. Consistent with prior findings, the greatest pollution occurs in the east, but …
Concerns have been raised over a large consignment of asbestos waste dumped near residential estates in Thika by a contractor. Kiambu County officials said the broken asbestos sheets were brought in 20 trucks from Nairobi last week and dumped within the Kang'oki garbage dumpsite. Asbestos fibre which was initially used …
