Pink has revealed how her six-year-old son Jameson has coped with the loss of their late family nanny Trish, who died following a battle with cancer. In an interview with Women’s Health, Pink, 43, revealed she has overheard her son speak with Trish and her late father Jim Moore, who also passed of cancer in […]
David Hart (left) and son-in-law Roy Nugter with grandson Kobie. Photos / Supplied A family has been left heartbroken after two road tragedies 31 years apart took the lives of two of their own. They’re also struggling to find the money for a much-needed drug as another fights cancer. Now their community is rallying around […]
“You have been working for a while now. When is your retirement?” Thangaprasad is tired of these questions. But he never showed his irritation. “Life is moving so fast. I am 69 now. It’s been a while since I retired,” he would tell everyone laughingly. The life of this retired Assistant General manager of SBT […]
Cancer occurs when genes develop abnormalities known as ‘mutations’, which can be passed down from parents to children where the common cancers that are caused by inherited mutations are breast, prostate, ovarian and colon however, not everyone who has these mutations gets cancer. The mutated genes can lie dormant for years and sometimes over a […]
In 2030, the worldwide burden of prostate cancer is expected to rise to 1.7 million new cases and 4,99,000 new deaths simply due to population growth and ageing as prostate cancer has become a major health problem in industrialized world during the last decades of the 21st century, contributing to 3/4th of the registered cases […]
An editorial published in The American Journal of Cardiology describes how wrong food choices can impact health at individual and population levels. Also discussed in the editorial are the ethical implications of eating animal-based foods and measures to promote healthier diets. Editorial: Are We What We Eat? The Moral Imperative of the Medical Profession to […]