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Bobby Ramakant is a World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General's WNTD Awardee for the year 2008, and writes extensively on health and development for Citizen News Service (CNS). Website: www.citizen-news.org
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 30, 2015 Tobacco smoking ruining lives: Lung cancer rates alarming
Smoking has had a great adverse impact on many communities and has been directly responsible for the plight of those who are slowly wasting away from the ravages of lung cancer. In 2012 (the most recent year for which data are available) lung cancer was the most commonly diagnosed cancer with 1.8 million cases worldwide, accounting for 13% of all cancer cases.
SHARE Monday, March 29, 2010 The Union to launch international trial of 9-month MDR-TB treatment regimen
The need for accessible, effective multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment is urgent, as the incidence of MDR-TB continues to rise, and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) has been reported in 57 countries. In response, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) is launching a trial of a 9-month treatment regimen that has demonstrated cure rates exceeding 80% in a pilot programme.
SHARE Sunday, January 24, 2010 Time for grown-ups to listen to young sane voices: Save fuel, save environment
The young people are the true custodian of our future, so their voices must not be ignored. The children who live in urban slums in state capital of Uttar Pradesh gave a powerful message to grown-ups to save the environment. The outcome of rising pollution in the city and other adverse manifestations of environmental hazards, are often worst faced by those from the lower socio-economic group
SHARE Monday, January 11, 2010 2010 is Year of the Lungs
The year 2010 was declared as year of the lungs to recognize that hundreds of millions of people around the world suffer each year from treatable and preventable chronic respiratory diseases. This initiative acknowledges that lung health has long been neglected in public discourses, and understands the need to unify different health advocates behind one purpose of lung health, according to Dr Nils Billo