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
New Delhi: The capital is set to ban gutka sales across the city. The government told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that the ban would be put into effect soon. The Sheila Dikshit government was replying to a PIL demanding a ban on gutka products. The PIL was filed by doctors citing a spurt in oral and lung cancer cases in the capital. ...
01:17 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Mumbai: After the Indian government recently lifted a patent license, Indian pharma major, Cipla, has announced a massive reduction of up to 76 per cent in its cancer drug prices. Following the move, the price of Cipla's generic kidney cancer drug, Sorafenib, will be available at Rs 6,840 a month from the earlier Rs 27,950. The lung cancer drug Gestinib price has been cut down by 60 per cent to...
07:51 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: A landmark study published in The Lancet has found that cancer hits Indians much earlier than Westerners. Cancer claimed 6 lakh Indian lives in 2010 and contrary to popular perception, cancer is no longer a disease of the rich. It killed twice as many as poor and illiterate Indians as their educated, wealthy urban counterparts, according to the new Million Death Study in The Lancet that used research from...
09:02 AM, Mar 29, 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
New Delhi: Air pollution in Delhi is at an all time high and causing a dramatic increase in the number of cases of lung cancer. AIIMS figures have found that out of 13,000 new cancer cases each year, almost one-third are in non-smokers. The study has found that the Delhi cancer registry has recorded a 2 to 3 per cent rise in lung cancer cases each year. Anumita Roychowdhury of...
08:41 AM, Sep 02, 2011
New Delhi: Doctors in Germany have trained dogs to sniff out lung cancer from a sample of person's breath. The dogs are trained to lie down when they detect a cancer sample and can look forward to receiving a treat. Bonni is no regular german shepherd - she's among the several dogs trained in a training school to sniff out lung cancer. "We trained the dogs via positive stimulation. So...
10:01 AM, Sep 01, 2011
London: Scientists have claimed that our toenails can indicate if we are going to have lung cancer. Clippings could be used to predict the risk years before the disease actually develops, they suggest. In a study conducted to measure nicotine levels in toenail samples from both smokers and non-smokers, the team of scientists at the University of San Diego in California, found those with the highest readings were over three...
11:08 AM, Mar 09, 2011
Scientists now looking at which genes go wrong in different types of cancer. ...
12:08 AM, Dec 18, 2009
Updike is regarded as one of the greatest writers in modern American letters. ...
12:10 PM, Jan 28, 2009
Green tea may help fight lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths, says study. ...
10:57 PM, Mar 13, 2007
Even smoking less than 5 cigarettes a day is enough to run you into chances of developing cancer. ...
12:02 PM, Feb 04, 2007
The polonium present in the cigarette smoke is one of the main causes of lung cancer, say experts. ...
12:42 PM, Dec 19, 2006
