Travel no more than three hours for Cancer treatment

Patients from any part of the country will soon need to travel no more than three hours for treatment of the kind available in large metros, reports Gina Krishnan. IMAGE: Cancer patients Aryan......

Holy smoke! 11.2 per cent of world smokers are in India

According to a new study, China, India, Indonesia, USA, Russia have the largest number of smokers.   More than one in 10 deaths globally was caused due to smoking in 2015 and over 50 per cent......

'Many times we miss the cancer symptoms'

'Live a healthy lifestyle. Like what our parents taught us. Like our parents' parents taught them.''We become obese. In obesity the chance of cancer increases.''Any new symptom? Please talk to your......

India's silent killer: Time to wake up

It has always been perceived that cancer is generally restricted to the more affluent class in comparison with the poorer people. This is a myth and a recent report in Lancet has busted it. Sriram......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

100 years of ITC: Corporate India's big success story

ITC is one of those few enterprises in the world that has traversed a 100 year journey and has yet managed to remain contemporary, relevant and competitive. Image:FMCG major ITC has seen......

Free medicine plan remained on paper only

Many health policy initiatives of the government could not be rolled out for various reasons in 2012 during which the country faced fresh challenges on disease prevention as dengue and Japanese......

Farming: Maharashtra shows the way in pest control

NCIPM's awareness-cum-surveillance project helped reduce the pest-infected area in Maharashtra by 67 per cent, writes Surinder Sud. Maharashtra, especially the Vidarbha region, is infamous for......