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Friday, July 17, 2009 4:50 PM

Cancer care from the heart

It may sound a little over the top but what do you call it when a private, for-profit hospital founder and a heart surgeon insists on keeping the radiotherapy cost at his new hospital lower than the government hospital in the city. That is the story of...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:29 PM

Hulaballoo over conflict of interests in cancer research

Let's say you read a brilliant research articled, and at the bottom a tiny asterisked note that says: "The author received funding from xyz company for this research." Would you be put off, or discard the just-a-few-minutes-ago-brilliant...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:25 AM

Religious belief + cancer = Prolonged life?

Several scientific studies have studied the effect of religiosity on cancer survival, sometimes even on the risk of getting certain cancers. A new study in today's JAMA ( Journal of the American Medical Association ) shows that cancer patients, with...
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Monday, February 23, 2009 11:05 AM

Treat your doc as god, but for heaven's sake ask questions

Let me start with an anecdote. Some three years ago, while researching for a story on clinical trials, I visited some hospitals in the city meeting doctors who ran human trials of new (also some old drugs for new indications) drugs. In each case I found...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:08 PM

Finally, cancer clues in urine!

For long, the traditional and modern systems of medicine have locked horns over the possible role of urine in cancer treatment. While the former continues its tradition, the latter is applying tools of modern science to test it, finally inching towards...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:00 AM

Decoys in off-label drug promotion

My hotmail inbox has, on average, one mail on Viagra discount sale every day. Well, the promotion these days is for Viagra's protection against bacterial infection! I haven't checked out the websites but from the subject line it looks like another...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:10 AM

India's import: asbestos cancer

To what extent can business interest blind nations to health disasters? We don't know yet. The way Canada and India (and some other developing countries) are conducting asbestos business, it's really difficult to believe if there's conflict...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 2:42 PM

Cheers to red wine, this time for cancer

Time, once again, to celebrate that wonder molecule in red wine called resveratrol. New research in today's issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention shows that moderate consumption of red wine may decrease the risk of lung cancer...
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