Transforming India’s approach to cancer care
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
Cancer
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Tipping the scales: Why preventing obesity makes economic sense
<p>Three out of four (75 per cent) people in the UK are unaware of the link between obesity and cancer, according to a Cancer Research UK report. The nationwide survey found that people from lower socioeconomic
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Anti-obesity injections: Good or bad?
According to a recent survey, 80 per cent of Delhi NCR residents are obese. In the year 2014, there were around 20 million obese women and 9.8 million obese men recorded in India alone. The figures published
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Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils
<p>Although cancer rarely acts as an infectious disease, a recently emerged transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) is virtually 100% fatal. Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) has
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Being overweight is linked to eight more kinds of cancer
MIAMI – Being overweight can raise the likelihood of being diagnosed with cancers of the stomach and digestive tract, as well as certain brain and reproductive tumors, international researchers said Wednesday.
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Obesity sparks 8 more types of cancer: Study
Being obese or overweight may lead to eight more types of cancer than previously thought, new research has warned. The eight additional types of cancer identified are -stomach, liver, gall bladder,
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Monsanto beats cities' lawsuits over San Francisco Bay pollution
A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits in which the California cities of San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley sought to force agricultural company Monsanto Co (MON.N) to help pay for reducing PCB contamination
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Iraqi children pay high health cost of war-induced air pollution, study finds
Air pollution caused by war may be a major factor in the numbers of birth defects and cancers being reported in Iraq and other war zones, a study has suggested. Human exposure to heavy metals and neurotoxicants
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Urban water pumping raises arsenic risk in Southeast Asia
Large-scale groundwater pumping is opening doors for dangerously high levels of arsenic to enter some of Southeast Asia's aquifers, with water now seeping in through riverbeds with arsenic concentrations
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Additive effects of millimeter waves and 2-deoxyglucose co-exposure on the human keratinocyte transcriptome
<p>Millimeter Waves (MMW) will be used in the next-generation of high-speed wireless technologies, especially in future Ultra-Broadband small cells in 5G cellular networks.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Deoxyglucose-Co-Exposure.pdf"
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Cancer cases in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh rise about 50 per cent
Visakhapatnam: The number of cancer cases is increasing with every passing year in the two Telugu states. Mortality rates are also high with about 50 per cent cancer patients succumbing to the disease.