From 99 remedies 200 years ago to more than 5000 today, the homeopathy industry is growing at 30 per cent annually. ...
03:01 PM, Jan 16, 2012
NEW DELHI/BANGALORE: Tamil Nadu has had the largest number of cancer deaths in the last three years among South Indian states, followed closely by Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. According to data compiled by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), 39,127 cancer patients lost their lives in 2011 in Tamil Nadu. The figures in the preceding years were 38,542 (2010) and 37,806 (2009) respectively. These figures are highest in...
07:59 AM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: 2011 was a year not just of landmark political revolutions but also of medical marvels. Be it HIV prevention or a vaccine for malaria, 2011 saw many medical breakthroughs. Here's a look at the top five: HIV treatment as prevention: It has been deemed as the most important scientific breakthrough of the year 2011. A study published in the journal Science this year, found that the same drugs...
08:45 AM, Dec 29, 2011
Artificial Leaf When chemistry professor Daniel Nocera at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that a device the size of a poker card could split water into hydrogen and oxygen, he was merely taking a leaf out of Mother Nature's playbook, except that he called it 'artificial leaf'. Fashioned from silicon, electronics and catalysts, Nocera's leaf mimics photosynthesis. When placed in about three litres of water, this 'leaf' produces a...
04:05 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Caracas: Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, whose struggle with breast cancer was closely followed by Venezuelans, has died at age 28. Her family said Ekvall died on Saturday at a hospital in Houston. Ekvall was crowned Miss Venezuela at age 17 in 2000, and the following year she was third runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico. She went on to work as a model, actress and television...
02:30 AM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Another honour for India born doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee. He has bagged the 10 thousand pound Guardian First Book Award for his book on cancer. 'The Emperor of All Maladies' which won the Pulitzer prize earlier in April, was the only work of non-fiction on the shortlist. Mukherjee is an oncologist who treats cancer patients at the Columbia University Medical Center. ...
03:18 PM, Dec 02, 2011
London: A history of cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies', won the 2011 Guardian First Book Award on Thursday, beating four works of fiction also on the shortlist. The author, American oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, has described the work as a "biography" of cancer, or "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour". The annual prize organised by British newspaper The...
11:51 AM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the country, after heart disease and cancer. While a massive stroke can kill you within minutes, you can save yourself if you recognise the symptoms in time. Dr Amit Verma, speaking to CNN-IBN, marks out what you can do to save yourself. Symptoms of a stroke: A stroke occurs when a blood vessel in the brain is blocked or...
09:50 AM, Dec 02, 2011
We tried to find out how much cancer treatment costs have gone up, and were surprised to find that the cost of a single cycle of basic chemotherapy for stage 1 cancer has actually gone down over the past 10 years. A decade ago, it would cost about Rs 10,000 at a government hospital and Rs 25,000 at a private one. This figure has come down to Rs 3,000 for...
11:28 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Bangalore: For these alluringly green vegetable are irrigated with untreated sewage water that contain high levels of lead, cadmium, chromium, mercury and arsenic, a research by Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) suggests. According to the study, the menace takes alarming proportion as consignments of such unsafe vegetables are making inroads into the city market uninterrupted from adjoining areas in the absence of a system to check the edibility of...
11:40 AM, Nov 22, 2011
London: Scientists claim to have achieved a major breakthrough by creating a 'wonder drug' which kills off cancer -- in fact, it could wipe out some of the most deadly forms of the disease. An international team, led by University of California, says that the KG5 drug works by making cancer cells "commit suicide"; it stops tumorous cells multiplying and they then shut themselves down, the 'Nature Medicine' journal reported....
12:59 PM, Nov 14, 2011
Here's a deeply personal account by middle-aged Shimla-based Minakshi Chaudhry, who beat the ghost of breast cancer. Now the sun is shining again for her. "The dark clouds have passed, letting sunshine in," journalist-turned-writer Chaudhry, 41, writes in her latest book, her 10th. 'Sunshine My Encounter With Cancer' narrates her innate struggle and captures the intense experience of her journey to recovery. The first part of the book, "How could...
02:44 PM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: A new study says drinking alcohol can increase the risk of breast cancer. That is a good enough reason why women should not knock back too many drinks, be it beer, wine or other alcoholic drinks. While a glass of wine may help females unwind, it may also put them at a higher risk for breast cancer. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
09:27 AM, Nov 04, 2011
BANGALORE: 6,583 people came together to form a human awareness ribbon on Sunday at Sullivan Police Grounds to create more awareness on breast cancer. Organised by HealthCare Global Enterprises Limited, a cancer care network, the participants wearing pink t-shirts and pink head gear formed the human ribbon and stood for ten minutes. In India, there is lack of awareness on health and people do not undergo regular preventive health checkups....
08:56 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Shimla: A breast cancer survivor has penned a book narrating her innate struggle and eventual triumph. The book, 'Sunshine: My Encounter with Cancer', by Shimla-based writer Minakshi Chaudhry was released by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Monday. This is the author's 10th book. "I had breast cancer and my treatment is now over. I may have it again, who knows? The future is not ours to see. Yet now...
01:30 PM, Oct 25, 2011
First Lady Betty Ford beat cancer in more ways than one. In the 1970s, when the c-word was fearfully whispered and only weeks moving into the White House, Ford announced she had cancer. Her motivation was to increase awareness to save at least one person " maybe more. She had a huge effect on early breast cancer detection, something epidemiologists call the Betty Ford blip. She went all out to...
11:45 AM, Oct 24, 2011
London: Mobile phones do not increase the risk of cancer, according to a large study involving more than 350,000 people by Danish researchers published Friday. The results, released on the British Medical Journal's website, chime with a series of other studies that have reached similar conclusions. Scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at people aged at least 30 who subscribed to mobile phone contracts and compared...
05:30 PM, Oct 21, 2011
La Fria: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez declared himself cancer-free on Thursday, four months after surgery to remove a malignant tumor that shook the South American nation ahead of a 2012 presidential vote. "I am free of illness," Chavez, 57, said in an address to Venezuelans after touching down from Cuba in a western state to make a pilgrimage to a Catholic shrine. Despite the ebullient socialist's declarations, doctors say it...
01:49 AM, Oct 21, 2011
New York: Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs died of respiratory arrest caused by a pancreatic tumor, according to the death certificate. Jobs died last Wednesday at his home in Palo Alto, California, at about 3 pm, according to the certificate, which lists 'respiratory arrest' as the immediate cause of death with 'metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor' as the underlying condition that caused the respiratory problem. No autopsy was performed on Jobs,...
07:20 AM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: About two weeks ago Amit Gupta, an entrepreneur of Indian origin based in San Francisco, was diagnosed with acute leukaemia and websites and Internet users around the world are joining hands to help Amit battle cancer. Amit founded, amongst other things, Photojojo, a twice-a-week photography tips newsletter service. As a part of his treatment Amit needs a bone marrow transplant. But the fact that South Asians are poorly...
05:41 PM, Oct 08, 2011
