Cancer
- Air pollution, Asia Pacific, Cancer, Environment, Health, Pollution, Society, Stroke, Thailand, World news
Chiang Mai’s New Year revelry hit by smog and war-related price spikes
Air pollution caused by wildfires is another blow to northern Thailand’s tourism industry as businesses suffer…
- Asia Pacific, Cancer, Europe, France, French Polynesia, Nuclear weapons, Pacific islands, South Pacific, World news
France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests
Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledgedF…
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‘Fruit of the devil’: Hainan’s betel nut sellers suffer from stuttering economy
Despite its links to oral cancer, people in Hainan have for centuries produced and eaten betel nuts, which giv…
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Indian model Poonam Pandey fakes death to raise cervical cancer awareness
Reality TV star reveals social media stunt and says she is proud of what ‘death news has been able to achieve’…
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‘Pick her up and take her away’: teenager’s death exposes callousness and corruption in India’s hospitals
Fourteen-year-old Fayza Ansari wanted to be an engineer. Instead, she died this month from leukaemia, failed b…
- Cancer, Children, Global development, Global health, Health, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, World news
‘A place of healing’: comfort for young cancer patients amid Sri Lanka’s economic crisis
The families of sick children have been pushed into poverty to access the country’s severely limited care serv…
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‘We are all exposed to it’: the human face of India’s asbestos timebomb
Experts say country’s vulnerability to asbestos-related diseases is putting the health of millions of people a…
- Cancer, Diabetes, Global development, Health, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, World news
‘I’m on death row’: Sri Lankans forced to choose either food or vital drugs
Lifesaving medication for cancer, heart disease and diabetes is growing scarcer and more expensive as the econ…
- Cancer, Extreme weather, Flooding, Global development, Health, India, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Cancer care can’t stop’: flood-hit Assam hospital uses boats to reach patients
Staff use makeshift rafts and boats to transport patients and bring painkillers and medicines to those trapped…
- Access to water, Bangladesh, Cancer, Environment, Global development, Health, India, South and Central Asia, Water, World Health Organization, World news
Water of death: how arsenic is poisoning rural communities in India
‘A crisis is brewing’, experts warn, with contaminated water exposing villagers to increased risk of cancer an…