Yuvraj Singh's treatment for cancer has dominated headlines over the last week or so. In a cricket crazy nation, it is not surprising the kind ...
01:48 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Mumbai: Cricketer Yuvraj Singh's battle against cancer has put the spotlight once again on the disease that claims 20,000 lives a day worldwide. The question is whether India is well equipped to battle the world's biggest killer. Diagnosed with germ cell cancer, cricketer Yuvraj Singh is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the United States. While it is a shocking news for his fans, but a cancer diagnosis in the 30s is...
07:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
As Yuvraj Singh battles cancer, experts discuss how India's healthcare has been fighting the challenge of cancer. ...
11:30 PM, Feb 07, 2012
BCCI president N Srinivasan is hopeful of resolving all issues with Sahara India through dialogue, after the latter backed out of sponsorship of Team India and the Pune Warriors on Saturday. ...
10:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
The malignant tumor is in the space between Yuvraj Singh's lungs, which is known as the mediastinum. ...
06:32 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Yuvraj Singh's recent cancer diagnosis " "mediastinal seminoma", a germ-cell tumour located between his lungs " has come as a major setback for the Indian batsman. However, the 30-year-old can seek inspiration from a host of athletes who have battled cancer to return to the sports arena, some even going on achieve historic landmarks. Here, we take a look at famous athletes who battled adversity to make stirring comebacks to...
12:51 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Mumbai: As the news of cricket icon Yuvraj Singh being diagnosed with cancer spread, several Bollywood personalities took to twitter to pray for his recovery. Yuvraj has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States. The 30-year-old left-hander has been in the US since last month being treated for what was earlier claimed to be a non-malignant tumour in the lungs. "Shocked to learn of Yuvraj...
12:39 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Allahabad: Yoga guru Ramdev on Sunday said he would be "glad" to offer his expertise to ailing cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing treatment in the US. "I would be glad to offer my knowledge of Yoga and Ayurveda to Yuvraj Singh. We have had some success in treating many dreaded diseases, including cancer, and there is no reason why we cannot replicate our...
03:19 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Dr Sameer Kaul of Apollo hospital says that Yuvraj Singh needs to undergo three cycles of chemotherapy. ...
02:46 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Cairo: A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment. The genetics-environment question is key to understanding cancer. AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said on Sunday the mummy was of a man who died in his forties. She said this was...
09:51 PM, Jan 29, 2012
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
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