As many as 10 lakh cancer cases have already been detected in India in current year with the case load set to shoot to 11.48 lakh by 2015 and 13.20 lakh by 2020.

Guwahati: A Bill was introduced in Assam Assembly on Tuesday by the State Health Department for imposing ban on consumption, trading, manufacturing, distribution and advertising of a wide range of

Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is implemented quickly by all

Tobacco may claim as many as 100 crore people around the world in this century unless and until the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is implemented q

Kageri of BJP, a former minister is a key producer of arecanut

Karnataka government today said the ban on gutka would stay, rejecting the demand of the opposition BJP which argued that the move would hit arecanut growers in the State. At the end of a debate on the issue in the state Assembly, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said revoking the May 30 government notification would only benefit the gutka lobby and would not help the cause of curbing cancer cases. The ban is as per the Supreme Court order, he said,denying that it was a hasty decision.

Aizawl: Tobacco presently kills nearly six million people every year and the WHO estimated that the weed will take times of more than eight million by 2030.

VARANASI: District health department is not holding any awareness programme to mark World No Tobacco Day on Friday.

Cancer might become the leading cause of death for non-communicable diseases by 2015 in the country if the current trend of significant increase in different cancers’ continued unabated, two cancer