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The
incorrigible bugs
With current antibiotics losing (or having already lost) their
effectiveness against common and serious pathogens, and problems
like lack of awareness and over the counter availability of
antibiotics looming over our heads, alarm bells have started
shrieking. Aashruti Kak discusses how this disturbing development
is resisting the industry's resolve to treat and eradicate
the 'superbugs'
Gangetic
plains has the second largest incidence of gall bladder cancer
in the world
A study conducted by the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary
Association in association with Mumbai-based International
Institute of Population Sciences on 22,000 people across 60
villages in the Gangetic plains of UP and Bihar revealed that
second largest incidence of gall bladder cancer in the world,
after Chile.
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