The health ministry has chalked out an overarching National Multi-Sectoral Action Plan with the aim to reduce premature deaths from cancer, diabetes and heart diseases by 25% in the next 10 years (

Did you know that the air we are breathing now, could cause lung diseases, stroke, respiratory diseases like COPD, asthma, cancer and even death in some cases?

In a survey that began in April 2014 to check the impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, 16 children have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 35 are suspected of having the disease, a pref

Having exhausted all treatment options, some cancer patients are seeking to undergo clinical trials

British researchers have identified a key protein that can control how breast cancer cells spread in the body.

40% Of Patients Die Annually In The Country

MORE than 40,000 people have been diagnosed with various types of cancer in the country and only 10 per cent of the victims have started medication at Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI) in Dar es S

This is essential for screening programmes to cover all rural areas, says Dr. V. Shanta

Six-year-old Karthik from Ramanagaram had his eye balls jutting out along with persistent fever since he was two.

On the eve of World Cancer Day, health experts blamed increasing urbanisation, lifestyle changes, high levels of industrial and environmental pollution and inadvertent entry of chemicals in the hum