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Treatable: Hormone therapy is a standard treatment for breast cancer and is often used in combination with other treatments such as surgery.

Breast cancer: more insights on how hormonal therapy works

People walk at a railway station during the annual Spring Festival travel rush ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Beijing, China, on January 13, 2023.

China reports almost 60,000 COVID-related deaths since December

Ananth Krishnan

Another type of treatment using stem cells called differentiation therapy, however, focuses on persuading cancer cells to become normal cells. Image for Representation.

Triggering cancer cells to become normal cells – how stem cell therapies can provide new ways to stop tumours from spreading or growing back

Varun Gandhi. File

No patient benefitted from ₹50 lakh Health Ministry scheme that helps patients with rare diseases: Varun Gandhi

Evidence is beginning to suggest a COVID infection could affect the balance of bacteria in the gut, which might go some way to explaining why some people have persistent symptoms after a COVID infection. Image for Representation.

COVID and your gut: How a healthy microbiome can reduce the severity of infection – and vice versa

A type of chronic leukaemia, or cancer of the body’s blood-forming tissues, can simmer for many years. For a small percentage of patients, the slower paced disease can transform into an aggressive cancer, called secondary acute myeloid leukaemia, that has few effective treatment options. Image for Representation.

From chronic to aggressive, how blood cancer in some can progress as a disease: Study

New guidelines for treatment of diabetic foot to be released on May 13

The Hindu Bureau

Data from the study showed that a single dose of the therapy was superior to the current standard of care in helping reduce the bleeding rate in patients with moderately severe to severe forms of haemophilia B. Image for Representation.

Pfizer's haemophilia B gene therapy succeeds in late-stage study

Minister for Health and Medical Education K. Sudhakar visiting KIMS Hospital in Hubballi on Tuesday as part of the mock drill on COVID-19 preparedness.

Karnataka has taken all steps to fight any further COVID outbreak: Dr. Sudhakar

The Hindu Bureau

कैंसर के खिलाफ जंग: लड़कियों के लिए सर्वाइकल कैंसर का टीका

புற்றுநோய்க்கு எதிரான போராட்டம்

The nasal vaccine was approved as a primary dose after Phase-3 trials. File image for representation.

Bharat Biotech’s nasal vaccine to be available as booster dose

True obsessive-compulsive disorder is debilitating and leads to significant suffering. Image for Representation.

Deep brain stimulation can be life-altering for OCD sufferers when other treatment options fall short

‘The catastrophic treatment cost has seriously impacted survival rates in developing countries’

The need to make cancer drugs affordable

Biswajit Dhar ,Chetali Rao

A scene at Lok Nayak Hospital, as the country logged 162 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases dipped to 3,691, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

India records 162 new COVID-19 cases, tally of active infections now 3,691