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Representative image BENGALURU: Seven per cent of adolescents between 15 years and 17 years in India experimented with smoking or smokeless tobacco, according to a study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru. The study report, published in the June 2021 issue of the British Medical Journal, highlights the risk factors for non-communicable diseases among adolescents. One in every 10 adolescents in India experimented with smoke or smokeless forms of tobacco, the study says, adding that adolescents from urban a...

India’s cancer problem — not enough clinical trials and lack of access to those being done Experts say more clinical trials are needed in India for those who’ve exhausted available treatment, and to help establish therapies that work best for Indians. But hurdles remain. Shreya Dasgupta 8 February, 2021 1:00 pm IST Text Size: A+ Bengaluru: When Satyam Kumar’s mother was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer in 2018, she went through all the prescribed medicines and chemotherapy at a private hospital in Gurgaon. But the cancer didn’t ...