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 …
Liver cancers are embedded with a type of super cancer stem cells that make them resistant to chemotherapy, spread to other body parts and stage a comeback even after they are surgically removed, researchers in Hong Kong reported on Thursday. The discovery, published this week in the journal Cell Stem …
The Central University of Punjab has set up a state-of-the-art DNA sequencer on its city campus here for advanced research in the field of cancer. Besides other things, the device would help detect single nucleotide polymorphisms through screening and thereby discover whether or not a person had hereditary risk to …
Nine-year-old Rani is unhappy. She has to stay away from her mother Janki Patel, who is taking part in a clinical trial at a centre 10 kilometres from her house at Bapu Nagar in Ahmedabad. “I do not like these trials. They take my parents away,” says Rani. In their …
Of the 28.5 crore diabetics in the world, 5.1 crore are in India India is faced with the triple burden of persistent communicable diseases, new and emerging infections, and increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Tuesday at the Delhi Secretariat …
A group of new drugs is promising to prolong the lives and relieve the symptoms of men with advanced prostate cancer, but could also add billions of dollars to the nation
Day-to-day spikes in air pollution seem to be followed by an uptick in hospital admissions for heart attack, a new study in Italy finds. The findings, reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology, add to evidence that high-pollution days may trigger heart attacks in some people. And, like other studies, …
The Central government on Thursday admitted before the Kerala High Court that highly carcinogenic elements such as Iridium and Ruthenium were being freely added to gold ornaments in India. This alarming revelation was made in a counter affidavit submitted by Director of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) before the …
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come out with nine new health warnings for cigarette packs, to be introduced from September 2012. Various countries already have such warnings, and some of them attribute reduced tobacco use to these. India has faced hurdles introducing visuals more graphic than those …
Hyderabad Good food, old Telugu movies and handsome money is what 25 women at Pidiguralla town in the coastal district of Guntur were promised in return for vials of their blood. But what they had not bargained for was severe body ache and hospitalisation. The women, most of whom are …
Govt Seals Offices Of Pharma Co For Testing Cancer Drug Which Is Yet To Get Approval Hyderabad: A day after the chilling exposure of clinical trials on poverty-stricken women by a pharma major in Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh government on Friday raided and sealed the offices of a drug company. …
Focus will be on diagnosis and treatment of cancer, diabetes The State health department will initiate preventive and treatment measures for cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and stroke in Shimoga and Kolar districts from July, under a Centrally-sponsored pilot project. Funded by the Union Health Ministry under the National Rural Health …
It is now possible to discriminate between cancers caused by intake of a radioactive material and those that arise spontaneously Recently, scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen have identified a genetic change in thyroid cancer as a signature or fingerprint that points to a previous exposure of the thyroid to …
About a year ago, this magazine carried a story on how lethal toys could be. I was struck by a paragraph that described how children could be ingesting chemicals when chewing a toy meant for teething children. That scary feeling came back while reading What’s gotten into us? Staying healthy …
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has sought clarification from Jindal Ecopolis, the waste management company setting up a waste-to-energy plant at Okhla, saying that it would not be permitted to operate if the company fails to provide technical details about pollution control at the incineration plant. It may be …
Proteins in frog skins which could be used to treat cancer, diabetes, stroke and transplant patients by regulating the growth of blood vessels have been discovered by Scientists at Queen's University Belfast. Led by Professor Chris Shaw at Queen's School of Pharmacy, the scientific team has identified two proteins, or
Cells of children rapidly divide and hence are more sensitive to any radiation. The brain area exposed to radiation is also large If the World Health Organisation has classified mobile phones as
