Once seen mainly in old people who are heavy smokers, lung cancer is now increasingly striking young adults aged under 50 years who have never smoked. But outdated medical mindset often fails to suspect lung cancer in young people costing many young lives
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In people older than 60 years, smokeless tobacco increased the odds of developing oral cancer by 19.5 times compared to
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From around 200 million in 1990, the number of people with diabetes has quadrupled globally to over 800 million in 2022 while
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Even as French researchers hypothesise that nicotine reduces the risk of novel coronavirus infection by preventing the virus from binding
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Researchers at Tel-Aviv University have found plants making airborne emission of ultrasound screams when subjected to stress. They suspect that
Read MoreA large study that followed-up people for nearly eight years in a rural area near Chennai finds that cardiovascular disease
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The e-cigarettes makers have been following the time-tested machinations of the big tobacco companies to a tee. Using flavours is
Read MoreUnlike in the case of cigarette smoking the actual and full-scale adverse health effects are not yet know. But much
Read MoreIt is an irony that a country that introduced text health warnings in 1966 and updated it in 1984 to
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The final price of cigarettes increases by only 0.18%. In the case of bidi and smokeless tobacco, the final price
Read MoreResearchers at the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, and ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai have identified five biomarkers for
Read MoreBesides Australia, France, UK. Norway, Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary have introduced plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging was
Read MoreTwo large surveys covering nearly 8 lakh adults between 2012 and 2014 have found the average 10-year risk of a
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