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India’s cancer care facilities ‘highly inadequate’, says a report
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science, Technology and Environment headed by former Union Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh was constituted to examine an expanded role for the Department...
2019 Nobel Prize: Medicine
Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe and William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza of US shared the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for their work on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen...
PMJAY – First Year with 90,000 Cancer claims; Tamil Nadu tops the list
The Union Health Ministry released its data on PMJAY – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. The scheme aimed at helping economically vulnerable persons. It aimed to cover more...
Health Minister announces plans to set up National Genomic Grid (Cancer)
Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Aswini Kumar Choubey, announced that government plans to set up a National Genomic Grid, so as to take cancer...
MoU on Cancer Research
The Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Department of Atomic Energy have signed an MOU for undertaking joint collaborative research programmes in...
NPPA Slashes Prices of 9 Non-Scheduled Cancer Drugs
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has slashed the prices of 9 non-scheduled cancer drugs by up to 87 per cent as part of its efforts to bring...IIT Roorkee finds new method to detect breast and ovarian cancer
Researchers at the IIT Roorkee have identified a new method to detect two of the worst forms of cancer in women – breast and ovarian cancer. The research...The researchers at IIT-Delhi develops AI based disease detector
The researchers at IIT-Delhi have designed an “Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based low-power electronic hardware system” to easily detect Malaria, Tuberculosis (TB), Intestinal parasite, and Cervical cancer in a few...
National Cancer Institute Inaugurated in Haryana
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated National Cancer Institute (NIC) at Badhsa in Jhajjar district of Haryana. Prime Minister also inaugurated an ESIC Medical College and Hospital in Faridabad. ...2019 World Cancer Day (WCD)
The World Cancer Day (WCD) is observed every year on 4th of February to spread awareness about cancer, its treatment and to encourage methods of its prevention. The...National Cancer Awareness Day (NCAD)
In India, the National Cancer Awareness Day (NCAD) is observed every year on 7th of November to remove all stops to lower the national cancer burden by generating... 