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 …
The health ministry is planning to screen all people aged 30-40 in rural areas for lifestyle diseases like diabetes, Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Friday. Noting that there has been an increase in cases of noncommunicable diseases like cancer, cardio-vascular diseases and diabetes, Mr Azad at the …
PB Jayakumar / Mumbai January 11, 2010, 0:21 IST Swiss drug manufacturer Novartis AG has been granted patent protection in India for Nilotinib, a superior version of blood cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate). It has been engaged in a legal battle with the government on the latter
Research on to minimise harmful effects Naveen S Garewal Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 1 Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in identifying reasons for the rapid spread of cancer in the state. Having identified arsenic in water as one of the major causes for abnormal …
Childhood leukemias, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), are rare but potentially fatal cancers associated with substantial morbidity. Turner et al. report on a meta-analysis of original case
Kerala State is a harbinger of what will happen in future to the rest of India in chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD). We assessed: (i) the burden of NCD risk factors; (ii) estimated the relations of behavioural risk factors to socio-demographic correlates, anthropometric risk factors with behavioural risk factors; (iii) evaluated …
JAIPUR: Life science experts from Jaipur highlighted the significance of non-toxic and low-cost strategies for prevention and treatment of cancer at an international symposium on chemoprevention of cancer in New Delhi earlier this week. The global event highlighted the role of dietary, natural and synthetic agents in cancer management. A …
The Meghalaya Government would soon sign an agreement with a UK-based charitable trust after which two vans would crisscross Meghalaya to help early detection and diagnosis of cancer. Health Minister Mukul Sangma said, the State Government will tie up with the MKC Roko Cancer Charitable Trust which would provide two …
Early Detection, Better Drugs, Customized Therapy Ahead London: Scientists have identified all the changes in cells of two cancers to produce the first entire cancer gene maps, calling the findings a
The paper deals with the medical and economic importance of the centipedes, their venom, Pharmacodynamics, effect of bites, symptoms and treatments based on some recent case studies; and morphology of poison apparatus in centipedes.
The extraction of oil from the second largest reserves in the world has merely begun, but the environmental costs are already skyrocketing. Canadian NGOs claim tar sand development is the most destructive project on earth.
The extraction of oil from the second largest reserves in the world has merely begun, but the environmental costs are already skyrocketing. Canadian NGOs claim tar sand development is the most destructive project on earth.
Formaldehyde was classified as a potential human carcinogen, identified by the US Environmental Protection Agency and International Agency for Research on Cancer as a Class 2A carcinogen. It also can cause irritation to human. However, formaldehyde present in biological fluids or tissues and environment as a result of natural processes …
Mumbai: Another name has been added to the long list of substances that pollute the air Mumbaikars breathe. For the first time, benzo alpha pyrene, a substance that can cause cancer, has been found in the air. A polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), benzo alpha pyrene is present in coal tar …
NEW DELHI: Researchers at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have found that vaccination against human papillomavirus (HVP) might prevent 75 per cent of cervical cancer, which causes of about 74,000 deaths every year in the country
The controversial theory that viral infection leads to chronic fatigue syndrome has received a boost from a US study. Researchers at the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Nevada found that a recently discovered virus called XMRV was present in 67 per cent of people with CFS but only 3.8 per cent …
