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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Non-Communicable diseases biggest killer in NE: Report
Experts identified Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) as the biggest killer in NE and advised the states to go for massive prevention and control mechanism of the diseases. Indian Council of Medical Research
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5,000 new blood cancer cases in Gujarat every year, doctor says
5,000 cases of blood cancer are reported in Gujarat every year and the survival rate is as low as 10 per cent and 20 per cent, according to a senior doctor of a hospital in Gandhinagar. "There are 5,000
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Rising cancer rate drives prevention plan
Health officials seeking to curb the country's fast increasing cancer rate are implementing a three-year nationwide plan that expands cancer screening, registration and prevention while reducing smoking.
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Home pesticide use tied to child cancer risk
Children exposed to insecticides at home may have a slightly increased risk of developing leukemia or lymphoma, a new review finds. The analysis, of 16 studies done since the 1990s, found that children
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Pre-antibiotic era may return, warns WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned member nations against the return to pre-antibiotic era on account of excessive and indiscriminate use of life-saving medicines and their over-the-counter
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Mediterranean diet and invasive breast cancer risk among women at high cardiovascular risk in the PREDIMED Trial
<p>Breast cancer is the leading cause of female cancer burden, and its incidence has increased by more than 20% worldwide since 2008. Some observational studies have suggested that the Mediterranean diet
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NRC scraps study of cancer risks at seven U.S. nuclear plant sites, citing costs
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT – Federal regulators are pulling the plug on a five-year study of the risk of cancer in communities around six U.S. nuclear plants and a nuclear fuel site. Remaining work on a
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Government Approves Proposal to Cut Haifa Bay Air Pollution by Half by 2018
At its weekly cabinet meeting yesterday, the government approved a plan to reduce air pollution in the Haifa Bay area up to half by 2018. The plan was submitted by Environmental Protection Minister Avi
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Communicable Disease Outbreaks: Maharashtra govt working with civic bodies, animal husbandry dept
DHS has come up with revised policies and guidelines to fight H1N1, dengue and leptospirosis. REALISING THAT the state’s public health department needs to remain better equipped to tackle the outbreak
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Cancer a major health risk in South Asia
Cancer is killing 1 in every 10 people in South East Asia region. Eleven health ministers from the region and the World Health Organization are meeting in two weeks to deal with what they are calling