As told to Parliament: 75% cropland treated with chemical fertilisers

All that was discussed in the House through the day

100% Indians exposed to PM 2.5 pollutants beyond limits

Long-term exposure to the pollutant has been associated with lung cancer 

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‘Don’t push tar sands’

Nobel laureates ask Canada to stop extracting dirty oil

Deadly compound

Now, even babies are being exposed to the cancer-causing dioxin

VOC slip-up

USA miscalculates cancer risk

Simply Put: Editing out the problem

WHO releases technical guidance for procurement, safe use of radiotherapy devices

More than half the cancer patients require radiotherapy as part of cancer care

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

Strong medicine for weak drug patents

Revocation of Pfizer, Roche patents for lacking inventive step signals healthy trend

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Lured, used and discarded

Fifteen people hospitalised after unethical drug trial in Hyderabad

Follow Up

Crisis staved off

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

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

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes