カテゴリー: Cancer
Air pollution caused by wildfires is another blow to northern Thailand’s tourism industry as businesses suffer amid war in IranThe Doi Suthep temple in northern Thailand is known for its spectacular views of Chiang Mai and the lush forested mountains t…
Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledgedFrance’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has spent tens of thousands of euros in an effort to counter research revealing that Paris has consiste…
Despite its links to oral cancer, people in Hainan have for centuries produced and eaten betel nuts, which give a natural high. But sales are fallingMany cities across southern China are known for the art of relaxing. Chengdu in Sichuan province is the…
Reality TV star reveals social media stunt and says she is proud of what ‘death news has been able to achieve’An Indian model who faked her own death in a publicity stunt to raise awareness about cervical cancer has defended her actions, saying in a so…
Fourteen-year-old Fayza Ansari wanted to be an engineer. Instead, she died this month from leukaemia, failed by an overloaded and often heartless healthcare systemFrom the day Fayza Ansari, 14, was diagnosed with leukaemia, her life followed a tragic a…
The families of sick children have been pushed into poverty to access the country’s severely limited care services. Now a refuge is about to open its doorsDespite a combined economic crisis and drug shortage, Sri Lanka is poised to open its first child…
Experts say country’s vulnerability to asbestos-related diseases is putting the health of millions of people at riskFor 40 years, Mohammad Younus worked at a factory that manufactured asbestos sheets in the southern Indian city of Coimbatore. By the ti…
Lifesaving medication for cancer, heart disease and diabetes is growing scarcer and more expensive as the economic crisis intensifiesStress was written all over Sunman Senthilnathan’s face as he left the pharmacy with the crucial medicine that brings h…
Staff use makeshift rafts and boats to transport patients and bring painkillers and medicines to those trapped at homeWhen the flood water roared into her home in Assam, Jyoti Bora* saw the morphine pills she takes for head and neck cancer swept away a…
‘A crisis is brewing’, experts warn, with contaminated water exposing villagers to increased risk of cancer and affecting children’s brain developmentNine members of Pankaj Rai’s family have died from cancer over the past 20 years. But the 25-year-old …