Push for environment friendly politicsTimes of IndiaKOLKATA: The environment hardly finds a mention in the manifesto of any political party in Bengal, although Kolkata is emerging as the lung-cancer capital of India. Environmentalists rue that what lit…
Trivia Times, April 5, 2014 editionShore News TodayPocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia in 1614. The marriage ensured peace between the Jamestown settler…
NCI given green light to directly procure its own drugsThe Island.lk (subscription)Earlier, Abraxane, a time-tested product from USA, was used on patients with advanced breast, lung and pancreas cancer, but supplies remain disrupted with the tender can…
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Urban jungle of Mumbai can make you really unwell
Times of India Census 2011 said India’s life expectancy was 64.4 years for men and 67.6 years for women. The Development Report 2009 for the city prepared by the National Resource Centre for Urban Poverty put the life expectancy at 52.6 years for men and 58.1 years … |
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Not all antioxidants are good to prevent cancer: Study
Daily News & Analysis “The third antioxidant tested, alpha-lipoic acid – found in spinach and broccoli and proven to have anti-cancer properties – had no effect on either of the two ‘adducts’ studied,” said Fung-Lung Chung, a professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi … |
Highlands TodayKeep calm and put the kettle onHighlands TodayTrue teas are derived from this shrub, native to China and India, and include black tea, green tea, white tea and oolong tea. The hottest health benefit of tea is its flavonoids, antioxidants…
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Is your child suffering from asthma?
Daily News & Analysis Asthma is a lung disease where swelling and narrowing of the airways leads to extra secretion of mucus, causing breathing difficulty and coughing specially at night or early morning. The study revealed that while several children had reported cough and … |
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Child fatalities due to choking on the rise
Times of India “A scan revealed a groundnut lodged in her lungs. We then had to remove it by doing a bronchoscopy, which entails administering anaesthesia for the child,” says Dr Jayavardhana. Doctors say when the particles move into their lungs it causes a host of … |
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12 Charts That Show How Tobacco Is Destroying The World
Businessinsider India … half of its users. To show just how bad tobacco is, we’ve pulled charts from the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation’s Tobacco Atlas and the World Health Organization’s reports on Global Health Risks and The Global Tobacco Epidemic. |
India.Com HealthHow watching porn can distort your perception of realityIndia.Com HealthIn this TEDx video, Gary Wilson says that if all men in this world started smoking at the age of 10, we would think that lung cancer is normal. Among the known dang…