Tag: Cancer

Afghan cancer patients say they are struggling to enter Pakistan for treatment after the placement of tighter restrictions on cross-border travel. From Peshawar, Pakistan, VOA’s Muska Safi has the story, narrated by Bezhan Hamdard. Camera: Muska Safi. Source link

As the old adage has it, an institution is only as good as the people who work within it. So while we plough ever more billions of pounds into the ailing NHS, why are our politicians doing so little to remedy its acute and growing staffing crisis?Figures released last ...

Chandigarh, January 27: A 47-year-old man got a new lease of life after his rare kind of bone cancer was treated successfully with limb salvage surgery by doctors at Max Hospital recently. Dr. Rajat Gupta, sr consultant orthopedic oncology said that the patient had a pain in the left ...

India registered about 12 lakh new cancer cases and 9.3 lakh deaths in 2019, becoming the second highest contributor to the disease burden in Asia for that year, according to a new study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal.Researchers found that India, along with China and ...

NL Corresspondent Jammu Tawi: To commemorate National Cancer Awareness Day, Medica Superspecialty Hospital celebrated the inauguration of the Monobina Clinic on 7th November. The event included a thought-provoking panel discussion on ‘Importance of counselling of Cancer caregivers.' This endeavor marks a noteworthy milestone in the hospital's ongoing dedication to ...

Administers ‘Integrity Pledge’ to officers, staff of Raj Bhavan Srinagar: An ‘Integrity Pledge’ was given to the officers, SSF Personnel and staff of Raj Bhavan, and Administrative Secretaries and Deputy Commissioners (through virtual mode) at Civil Secretariat on the occasion of the Vigilance Awareness Week. The Lieutenant Governor Manoj ...

We typically carry around 9,000 mutations in our genomes, making us all genetic mutants to some degree. We inherited most of these mutations from our ancestors, but accumulate around 64 mutations during our own development, passing them on to our offspring for good measure. Most of these mutations are benign ...

The sudden death of a Sikh activist in Birmingham just four days after he was diagnosed with cancer has sparked mystery.Avtar Singh Khanda, who rose to prominence over his support for an independent Sikh state - called Khalistan - in the Punjab region of India, died suddenly earlier this ...

Children in Afghanistan are being given a chance to survive a potentially deadly eye cancer through an extraordinary international effort led by an Israeli team working with medical centers in Pakistan.For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan has formal diplomatic relations with ...

Srinagar, Aug 1: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Tuesday put responsible the increasing exposure to toxic air for rise in lung cancer cases among the non-smokers.On world lung cancer day, DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan said that “Poor air quality is behind the spike in lung cancer cases ...