-AFP PARIS: New cases of Cancer will rise by half by 2030, reaching 21.6 million per year compared to 14 million in 2012, the UN said on Monday in a global analysis of the scourge. Cancer deaths, meanwhile, will likely rise from 8.2 million to 13 million per year as the world's population grows and ages and more people adopt risky lifestyle habits, said the report compiled by the International Agency for...
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Role of Millets in Nutritional Security of India -Mahtab Bamji et al
-National Academy of Agricultural Sciences After almost 67 years of Independence, malnutrition continues to plague India. Even while vast segments of resource-poor people suffer from undernutrition, particularly micronutrient deficiencies (hidden hunger), there is a growing incidence of obesity and chronic diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, Cancer etc. Both the ends of this grim spectrum are at least partly due to changing food habits, loss of millets from the diet being one...
More »Is chemical the culprit? -Dinesh C Sharma
-Down to Earth Scientists in Bihar find a plausible link between pesticides and breast Cancer "There were no apparent risk factors. I had no family history of breast Cancer, married early, had a baby whom I breastfed. Above all, I followed a healthy lifestyle. The only thing that could have led to my Cancer could be environmental factors-exposure to pesticide residues through food and pollution," narrated Niti, a young breast Cancer survivor,...
More »71 Cancer care institutes sanctioned: Azad -PVV Murthi
-The Hindu 11 lakh new cases and 5 lakh deaths reported every year in the country Vellore: The Union Cabinet has sanctioned the setting up of 71 stand-alone Cancer care institutes throughout India at a cost of Rs.6,650 crores in order to tackle the problem posed by the increasing incidence of Cancer and the increasing deaths due to Cancer in the country, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad...
More »Gujarat Behind National Average in Fall in Maternal Mortality Rate
-Outlook Ahmedabad: Gujarat has done a little worse than the national average when it comes to achieving decline in the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), according to the Union Health Ministry. TFR, which signifies the number of children born per woman, fell from 2.8 in 2005 to 2.4 in 2011 in the state, as per the Sample Registration System (SRS) data. The national decline in TFR in this period...
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