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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Docs write to PM against Okhla plant
New Delhi: About 80 doctors from Holy Family Hospital in Okhla and some other hospitals across the city have written open letters to the Prime Minister’s Office raising concerns about emissions from the
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Burden of disease from household and ambient air pollution for 2012
<p>WHO estimates that around 7 million people died in 2012 - 1 in 8 of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. The estimates confirm that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. The new data reveal a stronger link between both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure and cardiovascular diseases, such as strokes and ischaemic heart disease, as well as between air pollution and cancer.</p>
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7 million premature deaths annually linked to air pollution
<p>These new estimates released by WHO confirm that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risks and show a stronger link between both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure and cardiovascular diseases, such as strokes and ischaemic heart disease, as well as between air pollution and cancer.</p>
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बीमारियां बनकर फूट रहा प्रदूषण का फोड़ा
नगर में सालाना बढ़ रहे 22.5 हजार श्वांस रोगी कानपुर: शहर वासियों ने अपने लिए खुद कांटे बोए हैं और इसका खामियाजा भी भुगत रहे हैं। हर साल 22.5 हजार श्वांस व चेस्ट के रोगी बढ़ रहे हैं। मुरारी लाल चेस्ट हास्पिटल के विभागाध्यक्ष डॉ. सुधीर चौधरी कहते हैं कि प्रदूषण की मुख्य वजह जर्जर सड़कें, अतिक्रमण, ट्रैफिक जाम, जरा सी दूरी के लिए वाहन के उपयोग की प्रवृत्ति, धुआं उगलते जेनरेटर एवं कल कारखाने हैं। इस वजह से वायुमंडल में सस्पेंडेट पार्टकिल, नाइटिक आक्साइड, सल्फर डाई आक्साइड एवं कार्बन डाईआक्साइड की बढ़ती जा रही है। मार्निग वाक पर जाने वाले एवं खेलने वाले बच्चे जो तेजी से सांस लेते हैं, प्रदूषण के शिकार होकर सांस के रोगी बन रहे हैं।
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Imported fruits, vegetables to come under pesticide watch following recommendations from Court panel
Are those beautifully packed and fresh looking exotic fruits displayed on the stands in posh markets really healthy? We'll find it out very soon as for the first time, imported fruits and vegetables are
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Traces of pesticide in fruits, veggies
Study Finds Residue In 96 Of 345 Samples Tested | Produce Collected From Vendors, Markets The advice to ‘watch what you eat’ may no longer apply only to the calorie conscious, with a recent study finding copious quantities of pesticide residue in fruits and vegetables. Of the 345 samples they tested, researchers found pesticide residue in 96 samples.
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Ground water contamination study extended to Bethora
Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has extended the study of ground water contamination, earlier commissioned for the River Sal basin, now to the Bethora industrial estate also. GSPCB chairman
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80m hit by noncommunicable diseases
About 80 million people are suffering from Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, like, cardiac diseases, stroke, asthma and diabetes in Pakistan. These views were expressed
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Toxic industrial waste contaminates water, poisons lives in Kerala's Kollam district
With the groundwater in the area fully contaminated from the toxic industrial waste, the land has gone to waste and paddy fields have been deserted. Kollam: Nearly 300 families living within a radius
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CWRDM gives clean chit to Onchiyam water quality
Allegations that cancer deaths were due to water quality The Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) has given a clean chit to the water quality at Onchiyam panchayat here. The quality of water in the panchayat had come under the scanner following doubts raised by local MLA C.K. Nanu at the Kozhikode District Development Committee that there were cancer deaths in the panchayat, and comprehensive tests should be done to check the water quality there.