In an exclusive interview, the India batsman said after cancer treatment his life has ceased to be all cricket. ...
08:41 PM, Feb 05, 2013
The India batsman said Lance Armstrong will always be his hero but he should not have taken performance enhancing drugs. ...
11:53 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Today is World Cancer Day - a day to raise awareness in the fight against the cancer. Every year, 1 million people are diagnosed with cancer in India and a third of them die every year because of late diagnosis and lack of timely treatment. ...
09:00 AM, Feb 04, 2013
With near about five lakh cancer patients, West Bengal accounts for half of the country's total cancer cases, a senior doctor said on Sunday. "West Bengal has five lakhs cancer patients. 70,000 cases of cancer are detected every year in the state out of which 35,000 die annually due to cancer," Medical Director, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute Ashis Mukhopadhyay said. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 04, 2013
There is some good news and bad news for smokers. A new study published in the New England Medical Journal has found that if you smoke, you are likely to lose 10 years of life. But if you quit smoking at 40, you are likely to gain those years back. ...
09:47 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Manisha Koirala, undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer in New York, is unlikely to return home before six months, her manager said. ...
06:15 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Actress Sophiya Haque, best known for her stint as a video jockey on MTV, passed away in London on Thursday morning. According to sources, she was suffering from pneumonia and had been admitted to a London hospital for treatment for close to a week. After a successful stint as a VJ, Sophiya tried her hand in acting and appeared in a film called 'Snip'. The actress also dabbled in modelling...
11:09 PM, Jan 17, 2013
The apology came as Armstrong was scheduled to tape an interview with Winfrey to air on Thursday - his first interview since being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. ...
08:45 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Cervical cancer can be fully prevented if there is the required awareness. The tragedy, however, is that because of lack of knowledge and an it-cannot-happen-to-me attitude, it is the most common kind of cancer in India today. ...
04:26 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Dumping the 'junk' DNA theory: From the time the final draft of the human genome was published in 2003, it was believed that 98 per cent of our genetic material inside each cell was 'junk', with no known function. The rest, about 2 per cent of our DNA that make 20,000-odd genes, are coded for the proteins that govern our life. In 2012, that theory was consigned to history. Results...
12:50 PM, Jan 10, 2013
He will not be at his side's Copa del Rey return leg against Cordoba on Thursday night. ...
10:03 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala, undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer in New York, was pleasantly surprised when fellow actor and friend Rituparna Sengupta visited her. ...
11:08 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Venezuela will postpone the inauguration of President Hugo Chavez for a new term due to health problems, the government said on Tuesday, another sign the socialist leader's cancer may be bringing an end to his 14 years in power. The 58-year-old former soldier who has dominated the South American OPEC nation since 1999 has not been heard from since surgery on December 11 in Cuba - his fourth operation since...
06:45 AM, Jan 09, 2013
President Hugo Chavez's formal swearing-in for a new six-year term scheduled for January 10 can be postponed if he is unable to attend due to his battle to recover from cancer surgery, Venezuela's vice president said on January 4. Nicolas Maduro's comments were the clearest indication yet that the Venezuelan government is preparing to delay the swearing-in while avoiding naming a replacement for Chavez or calling a new election in...
12:28 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is being treated for "respiratory deficiency" after complications from a severe lung infection, his government said, pointing to a deepening crisis for the ailing 58-year-old president. Chavez hasn't spoken publicly or been seen since his December 11 operation in Cuba, and the latest report from his government on January 3 night increased speculation that he is unlikely to be able to be sworn in for another...
06:23 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Former England captains Ian Botham and Nasser Hussain have led the tributes to their late predecessor, who died on Saturday at the age of 66. ...
11:59 PM, Dec 29, 2012
With 1,30,000 new cases of cervical cancer diagnosed every year in the country, India accounts for nearly a third of all new cases in the world. What's worse, in another decade, more than 2.3 lakh new cases of this preventable cancer might be diagnosed annually. Yet, doctors in this campaign found that awareness for cervical cancer is extremely low. 95 per cent of women who turned up for screening had...
05:49 PM, Dec 27, 2012
A South Korean government agency said that working at a Samsung Electronics factory caused the breast cancer of a worker who died earlier this year, only the second time it has recognised a link between cancer and Samsung's chip plants. ...
10:54 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Actress Manisha Koirala, who was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, underwent a successful surgery in New York Monday. "Manisha underwent a surgery on Monday at around 9 a.m. I got a message from her family members and they said it was a successful surgery," Subroto Ghosh, Manisha's manager, told IANS. ...
12:52 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez returned to Cuba on Sunday for more surgery after a recurrence of cancer led him to name a successor for the first time in a sign the disease may force an end to his 14-year rule. Supporters prepared to gather in city squares across the South American country, shocked and saddened by the news from the 58-year-old socialist leader, who made the announcement in a late-night...
06:49 PM, Dec 09, 2012
