Medieval Skeletons Might Be Hiding a Cancer Rate Far Higher Than Expected
1 MAY 2021
Cancer isn t just a modern-day affliction. A new archaeological analysis suggests malignant growths in medieval Britain were not as rare as we once thought.
Even before widespread smoking, the Industrial Revolution, and the modern surge in life expectancy, it seems cancer was still a leading cause of disease.
Scanning and X-raying 143 medieval skeletons from six cemeteries in and around the city of Cambridge, archaeologists have predicted cancer cases between the 6th and the 16th century were roughly a quarter of what they are today.
That s 10 times higher than previous estimates, which had put cancer rates at less than one percent.
LAHORE: Commissioner Lahore Division on Friday announced that there would be a complete lockdown in the provincial metropolis on Saturday and Sunday.In a statement issued here Friday, Commissioner.
Covid 19 coronavirus: India reports more than 400,000 new cases, fire in hospital ward kills 18
1 May, 2021 06:39 AM
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India s human crisis spirals with coronavirus cases climbing each day. Video / Getty
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By: Ashok Sharma
A fire in a Covid-19 hospital ward in western India killed 18 patients today, as the country grappling with the worst outbreak yet steps up a vaccination drive for all its adults even though some states say they don t have enough jabs.
India set yet another daily global record with 401,993 new cases, taking its tally to more than 19.1 million. Another 3,523 people died in the past 24 hours, raising the overall fatalities to 211,853, according to the Health Ministry. Experts believe both figures are an undercount.
National
April 30, 2021
MANSEHRA: The additional district and sessions judge would hear Jamiat ulema-i-Islam-Fazl leader Mufti Kifayatullah application against the treason case here today (Friday).
âThough the Abbottabad circuit bench of the Peshawar High Court(PHC) has granted a bail to Mufti Kifayat in a case registered against him by the police under section 3 of maintenance of public order, he is still in jail under treason charges,â advocate Bilal Khan Swati, the counsel for Mufti Kifayatullah told reporters here on Thursday.
Mansehra police had arrested the JUI-F leader under two different cases on April 14, 2021 but the Abbottabad circuit bench of the PHC granted him bail in the 3-MPO but he is still imprisoned at the Central Jail Haripur under treason charges.