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 …
Kasaragod: A 35-year old woman who was suffering from cancer died at her Chalingal residence in the district on Wednesday. Her disease is suspected to have been caused by the spraying of the pesticide Endosulfan in the Plantation Corporation of Kerala's (PCK) cashew estates at Periye here. K. Karthiayani, who …
In 1947, a Boston shipyard worker’s child fell sick. Examining the twoyear- old’s blood through the microscope, Sydney Farber, a city doctor, saw billions of malignant white cells “dividing in frenzy, their chromosomes condensing and uncondensing, like tiny clenched and unclenched fists.” The child was suffering from leukaemia and by …
New Delhi: Millions across India count on it to relieve them of pain, or protect them against heart disease and cardiac arrest. However, a new research has confirmed that popping a single pill of low dose aspirin daily plays a major role in cancer prevention. In a study, published in …
Developing a technology that may change the way the world approaches cancer, Biocon Limited, in collaboration with a US-based research company, is working on creating a
Shillong, Nov. 29: The need to have a guard system in every village and a community liaison group in each police station to effectively contain crime features in the Meghalaya Police Bill, 2010 tabled in the Assembly today.
SHILLONG, Nov 29: Even as the government admitted that the incidence of cancer in Meghalaya had been alarming in the past five years, Deputy Chief Minister in-charge of Health and Family Welfare Rowel Lyngdoh said the State had enough curative expertise to deal with the killer disease. Replying to a …
It will cover 18,000 households in Wayanad Detailed report to be submitted on Monday KALPETTA: A team of Health officials headed by Neetha Vijayan, District Medical Officer, began a survey to assess the impact of extensive pesticide application in the district on Friday. The survey was being organised as per …
The Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) flagged off its mobile outreach programme in Trombay on Monday. The five-year programme funded by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) will screen women for breast, cervical and oral cancers. The diagnosed patients will be treated at Tata hospital free of cost. The programme was …
This Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 compares the magnitude and patterns of cancer between areas affected by the methyl isocyanate (MIC) leak and the unaffected areas of Bhopal. This report of twenty years of data from 1988 to 2007 …
Only about 30% of breast cancer cases can be explained by accepted risk factors. Crouse et al. (p. 1578) investigated whether the incidence of postmenopausal breast cancer may be associated with exposure to urban air pollution. The authors used data from a hospital-based case
Researchers in Mumbai have made a breakthrough discovery that holds the potential to provide a screening tool for breast and ovarian cancer in Indian women. By a happy coincidence, the discovery has come in October, which is celebrated as breast cancer awareness month by major charities across the world. Dr …
KATTAPPANA: Even as the Stockholm convention of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee on Tuesday proposed a ban on the use of the deadly Endosulfan pesticide, it is revealed that a large number of farmers in Idukki have stepped up its use in cardamom plantations. Unmindful of the ban on …
Patiala: The 30 per cent annual increase in the number of cancer patients has become a cause of worry for the health authorities and common people. Head of the Cancer Care Centre at Rajindra Hospital, Dr Harjot Kaur Bagga said, “ The number of cancer cases mostly among women are …
Contaminated drinking water the primary cause: Seechewal Umesh Dewan Tribune News Service Punjab Pollution Control Board member Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal shows polluted waters of the Beas and Kala Sangha drain, collected in bottles, to mediapersons in Patiala on Sunday. Punjab Pollution Control Board member Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal shows …
As many as four wild elephants have died around the Kaziranga National Park within six days, ringing alarm bells among the authorities. A domestic elephant owned by the forest department died of cancer last week. While carcasses of two elephant calves were found inside the Difloo tea estate adjoining the …
AUS and two Japanese scientists won the 2010 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for revolutionary chemical research with uses that range from fighting cancer to producing thin computer screens. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared the prize for the development of
