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Largest cancer study in India starts

-PTI   The largest study to investigate the causes of common cancers in India has started through a collaboration between the University of Oxford and 12 leading Indian cancer centres. The study will investigate whether certain factors common in Indian lifestyle, such as a life-long vegetarian diet, are important in influencing the risk of cancer, the university said today. Cancer incidence in India is expected to increase by over two-thirds in the next two...

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Fertility drug ban after 4 years of use by GS Mudur

The Union health ministry today banned the manufacture and sale of a drug called letrozole to treat infertility in women, four years after its own drug regulators had waived safety studies and relaxed rules to approve the medicine. In a statement notifying the ban, the ministry said the drug “is likely to involve risk to human beings and safer alternatives are available”. The drug has been used to treat breast cancer in...

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Even a CAT scan has a 4-month wait list at AIIMS by Kounteya Sinha

It could take you as long as two years to get a date for a simple MRI scan in the country's premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) while a CAT scan has a waiting period of more than four months. Patients requiring a total hip replacement or a total knee replacement, will wait for no less than 5 months. A waiting list - ranging from 2 months to...

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Doctors, let us care for the sick, not look at their purse by Dr. Araveeti Ramayogaiah

Dr. Subba Reddy, my classmate at the medical college, practises in a village in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh. A decade ago, a patient came to him for treatment of hydrocele. After examination, Dr. Reddy suggested surgery costing Rs. 500. The patient asked Dr. Reddy to refer him to a bigger hospital in a city. Dr. Reddy suggested a city hospital. After a few days, he received Rs.1,000 from the...

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Human Smears by Madhavi Tata

Poor Andhra villagers now victims of clinical drug trials No Drug Resistance     * 35 women, some men from Guntur district put throughclinical trials of a breast cancer drug. They later complain of joint pains, nausea and chest pains.     * Biotech industry in Andhra is worth about Rs 455 crore     * Touts operating on behalf of pharma companies get people from the poorer districts to Hyderabad for the tests *** Some 35 women...

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