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 …
China’s largest dairy company, the China Mengniu Dairy Company, says it has destroyed a batch of milk contaminated with a substance that can cause liver cancer. The contaminated milk was discovered by a government agency that ran spot tests on the milk on Saturday. Mengniu, which is based in Sichuan …
People who harbor ulcer-causing bacteria in their stomachs may be protected against some diarrheal diseases, according to an Israeli study. Some previous studies had suggested that being infected with the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, increases the risk of diarrhea, while others have reported finding the opposite, said researchers from Tel Aviv …
China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, the nation's biggest dairy firm, said it had destroyed milk found to be contaminated with a cancer-causing substance, the latest food safety problem to hit the country's dairy industry. Mengniu said in a statement posted on its website over the weekend that it had destroyed …
A key US environmental agency has unveiled the country’s first-ever national standards for mercury and other toxic air pollutants from power plants. The sweeping regulations mandated by the Congress in 1990 and delayed by prolonged litigation, lobbying, and legislative battles — will require utilities to cut at least 90 per …
The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new standards on Wednesday sharply limiting emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from the nation’s coal- and oil-burning power plants. The new rule, unless blocked by Congress or the courts, will be the first time the federal government has enforced limits on mercury, arsenic, …
Flex banners made of poly-vinyl chloride are a serious environmental and health hazard. They can cause cancers and infertility. Municipal authorities and the Pollution Control Board have failed to prevent people from burning flex banners thrown in dustbins and at dump-yards. The city produces lakhs of flex banners as politicians …
Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) Friday revealed that arsenic, a major cause of cancer and kidney diseases was found in seven brands of bottled water. Safe limit of arsenic in water is 10ppb, but some brands of bottled water like Nadiq Water contained 52ppb arsenic, Nation contained …
Sri Lanka's health minister Maithreepala Sirisena has appointed a high-powered committee to investigate the waste disposal from the National Cancer Institute after the National Atomic Energy Authority (NAEA) has found some radioactive substances in bathing wells and a paddy field in the areas surrounding the hospital in Maharagama. Western Provincial …
Cites an ‘exhaustive’ survey conducted by govt in affected areas; PTU expert rubbishes claim Disparaging reports linking high prevalence of cancer to brackish water in Malwa belt of Punjab, Chief Secretary SC Agrawal has said a Health Department report had found that there was no link between water and the …
Ahmedabad: Cancer is on the rise in India, with an estimated 5.35 lakh people dying of the disease this year, minister of state for health Sudip Bandyopadhyay informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. In Gujarat, 26,588 people have succumbed to the disease. The minister said that figures recorded with the …
It shrunk breast tumours by 80 per cent during tests and could also tackle prostate, pancreatic and cancers, said researchers. Even tumours that resist treatment with the best medicines available, including the 'wonder drug' Herceptin, may give in to the vaccine, the Daily Mail reports. Said study co-author Sandra Gendler, …
More than 20 years ago, Congress ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate toxic air pollution. It's done that for most industries, but not the biggest polluters — coal and oil-burning power plants. The EPA now plans to change that later this week, by setting new rules to limit mercury …
Meriel Watts may be unknown to the people of the endosulfan-hit villages of Kasaragod, but the campaign the New Zealander had run on their behalf for getting the highly toxic pesticide banned globally is familiar to anti-pesticide activists worldwide. Ms. Watts and the organisation she is part of—Pesticides Action Network …
KOCHI: The Kerala High court on Friday issued notices to Central and State government’s on a petition against the pollution caused by Kerala Minerals and Metals Limited (KMML) in Kollam district. The petition was filed by D Suresh Kumar, secretary, Polluted Area Welfare Society, seeking a directive to the KMML, …
Nuclear medicine hazard looms large in hospitals in the state with many of them not following the safety code of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). The “safety code for nuclear medicine facilities” deals with handling of nuclear radio isotopes for diagnostic facilities and treatment of certain diseases like cancers, …
The number of rhinos poached in South Africa has risen sharply this year with more than 400 killed, the South African National Parks said on Tuesday. The parks body said 405 rhinos had been killed for their horns so far in 2011 -- 229 in the giant Kruger National Park …
At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant's operator said on Sunday. Nearly nine months after Fukushima Daiichi was ravaged by an earthquake and tsunami, …
A session of the ongoing independent hearing by the Permanent People's Tribunal, organised by the Pesticide Action Network, an international non-governmental organisation, here on Sunday was dedicated to testimonies related to endosulfan. Activists, health workers, and doctors who have worked in Kasaragod spoke about how the aerial spraying of the …
Eager to help out girl students from humble backgrounds to maintain high levels of personal hygiene, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday launched a “Kishori Scheme” under which sanitary napkins would be distributed to adolescent girls. With the launch of the scheme, Delhi becomes the first State in the …
– Nagaland has been listed as one of the leading cancer-affected States in India with reported detection rate of at least 500 new cases annually. But despite the alarmingly high cancer incidence there is still no cancer hospital in the State. Nagaland presently has 11 district hospitals and 23 private …
