According to highly placed sources in NPPA, the reduction in prices following the latest exercise will range between six and 53 per cent.
A research conducted by the University of Texas's M D Anderson Cancer Center in collaboration with the Bangalore-based Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana says yoga offers benefits to women undergoing radiation therapy for treating breast cancer.
An online shooting tournament, held in bedrooms and basements, brought some positivity and a smile on the face of a young national- level shooter undergoing treatment for cancer in a Kolkata hospital. From her hospital bed, the ailing markswoman joined the proceedings in the second international online shooting championship through Zoom App, and expressed her delight at being part of an initiative that also resulted in a virtual post-match press conference.
Four hospitals in Delhi received a bomb threat via email on Tuesday morning, officials of the Delhi Fire Services said.
Researchers in London have discovered a way to stop cancer cells from spreading, which may prevent the spread of the disease in about 90 per cent patients. Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research, a constituent college of the University of London, say that rather than concentrating on stopping the formation on tumours, they focused on singling out the enzyme that allows cancer to spread throughout the body.
The verdict followed a $72 million jury award from the same court in February to the family of a woman, who died from ovarian cancer.
He died at AIIMS in New Delhi at 9.45 pm, hospital sources said.
Edgbaston Cricket Ground will turn 'Blue for Bob' on Saturday, Day 3 of the opening match of the Ashes to commemorate England's legendary cricketer.
In a breakthrough, an Indian-American scientist at the prestigious MIT has developed a simple, cheap, paper test that could improve cancer diagnosis rates and help people get treated earlier.
Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova has suffered a relapse on the cancer in his saliva glands, Spanish daily El Pais reported on Wednesday citing sources at the club.
Former India boxer Dingko Singh requested the Sports Ministry to help him travel from Manipur to Delhi for his cancer treatment. Singh, who is currently in Imphal, said the doctors had asked him to undergo radiation but it can only be done in Delhi.
'Have you seen foreign cigarette packets? They only have words warning us about the use of tobacco. While ours have pictures already covering 40 per cent area. I am just saying wait for our study before increasing it.' 'I repeat that I am aware that gutka and tobacco are harmful. Awareness is what we need. We are creating awareness. We are doing it on radio and television.' BJP MP Dilip Gandhi, who says there is no study in India that links tobacco use with cancer and has stayed the increase in size of pictorial warnings on cigarette packets, speaks to A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
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Muhammad Qasim had two surgeries to remove a clotting in the chest after being hit by a ball.
Check out the winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024. Now in its 17th year, the World Photography Organisation's awards ceremony is a major annual moment recognising the best photography in the world, celebrating the images and stories that have resonated with global audiences over the past year.
Is the gentleman in the suit standing behind Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat who we think it is?
A new report says laws crimp Medicare's ability to control costs on cancer, leading to a 267% increase in drug spending over seven years
One of the first cases to reach the medical literature reported a woman who had gone to the doctor after her dog started sniffing suspiciously around a skin sore. It turned out to be a malignant tumour.
The insurance regulator's move to prod insurance companies to sell health products to all age groups, including those above 65, is aimed at increasing penetration though there would be challenges on pricing due to higher risk perception, experts said. While there was no regulatory cap on age for health insurance policies, most companies had an internal policy which did not allow them to sell health insurance products to persons over 65.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has commissioned a quality check on MDH and Everest products. This follows complaints that several popular spice mixes of the two leading brands contained traces of ethylene oxide more than the permissible levels, official sources said. This move by FSSAI comes after Hong Kong and Singapore recalled variants of the two masala majors' products in their countries.
"Understanding how cancer cells spread is tremendously important for cancer research. It is the ability of tumours to invade other tissues and spread around the body that makes them so dangerous. The cancer just overwhelms the body. Potentially, our findings can be applied to the most common form of cancer, carcinoma, found in the breast, lung and gut for example, which makes up 80 to 90 per cent of all cancers," lead researcher Chris Ward said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that a solution to the Ukraine conflict is not possible on the battlefield and peace efforts do not succeed in the midst of bombs and bullets even as he flagged concerns over a missile strike on a children's hospital in Kyiv.
The products, named as 'Erypro Safe' and 'Nufil Safe', have been launched in collaboration with California-based firm Safety Syringes, which makes syringes for vaccines and other medicines. While Erypro Safe is used in the treatment of chronic kidney disease, Nufil Safe is used for cancer treatment. With the new device, patients can be injected with the drug conveniently, without drawing the medicine into a syringe from a vial.
India's star batsman Yuvraj Singh, who was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year before making a remarkable recovery, is now looking at creating awareness for the fatal disease in India. Harish Kotian spoke with the dashing left-hander to find out more about his plans.
Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee's acclaimed book on cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category. According to the Pulitzer citation, the book by the New York-based cancer physician and researcher is "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science".
The government is in talks with pharmaceutical companies for ensuring availability of cancer drugs at a minimal price at their low-cost pharmacy chain Jan Aushadhi stores across the country.
In 2022, India was ranked as the eighth most polluted country with an average PM2.5 concentration of 53.3 micrograms per cubic metre.
The Tata Group on Wednesday announced that it would set up a cancer hospital in Kolkata and make further investment in West Bengal.
The study has found that salad intake and gardening substantially reduces the chances of developing lung cancer for smokers as well as nonsmokers.
