Blueprint to tackle non-communicable diseases released

It has a list of good practices and gives structure to an otherwise unregulated field

Nanotherapy for cancer

Nanoparticles wrapped in polymers effectively kill cancer cells

Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

DTE Reportage

'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

Researchers find more reasons to quit smoking

Death due to renal failure and intestinal ischemia associated with smoking

Punjab, cancer capital of India

Government survey shows cancer cases in the state exceed national average

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Bihar bans gutkha on World No Tobacco Day

The ban is already successful in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes

Arsenic more toxic for specific gene variation

Cancer in Kolkata air

Children, adolescents who use e-cigarettes twice as likely to smoke conventional ones later: WHO

There is growing evidence that e-cigarettes affects brain development in adolescents

Your toothpaste may cause cancer

A study finds nicotine dental products contain nicotine

Nuclear radiations: how harmful

MONEYMAKERS

RESIDUE OF A REVOLUTION

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Cadmium and cancer

New study offers strong support for a link

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X factor

X-rays increase cancer risk

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As told to Parliament (July 21, 2023): Unseasonal rains in March 2023 ruined over 18,000 hectares of crops in Chhattisgarh

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

South-east Asia resolves to combat non-communicable diseases

Countries target to reduce mortality from lifestyle diseases by a quarter by 2025

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