Science and Technology - Briefs

Ads term gutkha ban unfair

Analysts call the ads misleading; health ministry plans action against industry

Big tobacco blows new smoke rings

A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules

Science and Technology - Briefs

Diesel price hike: no scope for roll back

'Not raising diesel prices would harm economy much more'

Indian company gets licence to manufacture and sell patented cancer drug

This is the first-ever compulsory licence given to a generic drug company

Gutkha sympathiser

Enforcement agencies had a busy year. They were tough at times, lenient at others

Gutkha ban: Supreme Court seeks compliance report from states

Ban remains on paper; activists demand nationwide enforcement

In Court

Letters

Over 3% of all cancer patients in India are under 15; 4.6% under 20: Study

Leukaemias make up nearly half of all cancers in 0-4 year age group (42.1%), 5-9 year age group (42.5%)

Unhealthy numbers

India saw the world’s third highest number of new cancer cases and the second highest mortality rate attributed to the disease in 2022. The …

India reported 1.41 million new cancer cases in 2022; breast cancer ranks highest

Globally, lung cancer most common, followed by breast, colorectal, prostate and stomach cancers

Cancer treatment can cause metastasis; a new nutraceutical drug can contain it: Research

R-Cu made from grape extract, resveratrol, and copper, deactivates chromatin particles, reduces toxicity of chemotherapy drugs

Sarah Ferguson diagnosed with malignant melanoma – here are the latest treatments for it

While melanoma is much more common in people with the duchess’s skin type, it’s important to be aware that anyone can get it

World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNICEF pledge close to $600 million to combat cervical cancer

Commitments at first ever global forum to eliminate the fourth most prevalent cancer among women

Union Budget 2024-25 encourages vaccination against cervical cancer, provides insurance to frontline health workers

We hope the regular budget after the elections increases the health budget while paying attention to greater utilisation, expert tells Down To Earth

As told to Parliament (February 9, 2024): Cancer cases on the rise in India

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

Osteoporosis drug may find use in cancer therapy

A group of drugs called bisphosphonates, which are used for treatment of osteoporosis, can also be used for treating some lung, breast and colon …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 7, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

"Massive assault"

Vo Quy is semi-retired, but still officially heads the Center for Natural Resources Management and Environmental Studies at the University of …

A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C — and a path forward

The development of treatments over the past 30 years reflects the amazing progress the field has made in tackling hepatitis C in a relatively …

ChevronTexaco on trial

October 21, 2003. High-level corporate lawyers from ChevronTexaco sit in the same packed muggy courtroom as bare-breasted Amazonian men and women …

Cancer drug touted as fertility pill

Cancer drug letrozole is at the centre of a controversy over its being promoted as a fertility enhancer. The Union government has issued notices …

Chernobyl

Twenty years ago -- on April 26, 1986 -- the biggest nuclear disaster happened in Chernobyl, in what was then the Soviet Union, when a chain …