There is no link between using a mobile phone and developing brain cancer, according to a review of studies, which was commissioned by the World Health Organization. IMAGE: Kindly note that this......
India registered about 12 lakh new cancer cases and 9.3 lakh deaths in 2019, becoming the second highest contributor to the disease burden in Asia for that year, according to a new study published......
Alcohol consumption was associated with 62,100 or 5 per cent of newly diagnosed cancer cases last year in India, according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology journal which shows alcohol......
After steering the Rediff mothership for close to 29 years, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder, chairman and CEO, did what few businessmen in this country do -- R-E-T-I-R-E. On August 2, 2024, we were......
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......
In a relief to FMCG major Dabur, two of its foreign subsidiaries, Dabur International and Dermoviva Skin Essentials, have been removed as a defendant in multiple lawsuits filed in a US court over......
Growing resistance to antibiotics and other drugs demands a co-ordinated global response on the same scale as efforts to address climate change, experts have said. Without an international......
The company has been developing donor-derived stem cell platforms for regenerative medicine and drug discovery applications. Image: Subhadra Dravida, founder, Transcell Biologics. ......
Image: Boys collect coconuts thrown in as offerings by worshippers in the waters of Ganga. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters Kolkata is the most polluted metropolis in the country with its......
Cigarette companies have substantial wriggle room thanks to India's complex tax structure, which categorises them by length and filter, points out Charu Bahri/IndiaSpend. In March 2015 - in......