Virtual reality (VR) technologies could play a key role in Indian medicine in the future. For some patients in rehabilitation, Indian-developed VR systems are already taking the place of painkillers. It is just the start of a far-reaching transformation, experts predict. The story in the ET focuses on Pushkar V Kulkarni, a 21-year-old engineering graduate …
This year, on August 8, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the World Economic Forum convenes a meeting of ASEAN countries, allowing senior decision-makers from a range of sectors to “facilitate greater collaboration between industry, government and civil society, and to work on shaping the brightest …
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Indian scientists have devised a way of repurposing nuclear waste for medical purposes. The Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in the Trombay suburb of Mumbai has put to use the radioactive isotope caesium-137 – created as a by-product of the nuclear energy process – to replace cobalt-60 in a life saving procedure used to prevent …
Public health groups are calling for the government to toughen up on tobacco. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was facing pressure ahead of a meeting of India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) council on February 18. Campaigners are calling for tax laws on tobacco products to change. This in a bid to stymie tobacco’s cancerous influence …
The obesity epidemic is accepted far and wide as laying the groundwork for a major global health crisis in the near future. Obesity tends to be identified with wealthy countries, such as the United States. However, it also has a pronounced effect on the developing world too, where 115 million people suffer from obesity-related health …
A new Indo-Russian project could help surgeons to be much more sure that they have cut out all of a cancerous tumour. The potentially life-saving discovery relies on a substances that kills thousands of Indians every year. Cobra venom is currently the centre of a study to illustrate the margins of cancerous cells in tumour …
India has historically been associated with low rates of cancer. This may be in part because life expectancy was low and cancer is largely a disease of old age. It is, though, in part because tobacco use and other causes of cancer are only now on the increase among many Indians. Over the past …
The tobacco industry has come out in force against an international anti-tobacco summit happening in Delhi in November- but the government will not back down. The World Health Organisation (WHO) 7th Conference of Parties (COP7) is scheduled for November 7-12. Expected to include delegates from 180 countries, it will review the World Health Organisation Framework …
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According to the WHO, the number of cancer cases in India will multiply five times by the year 2025. There is also a severe lack of qualified oncologists in the country with only one oncologist per 2000 patients. Health Issues India has been tracking this alarming news over the past few months. A recent internal …
According to this article in the Times of India, there are a million new cases being reported every year and the incidence is expected to rise five-fold by 2025 in India.According to medical professionals, lung and oral cancers are the most common among men while cervix and breast cancer are striking more and more women. …
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