Ahuja Child & Eye Center

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India has highest oral cancer cases tobacco guilty areca nut too

India has the dubious distinction of having the worlds largest number of oral cancer patients with an annual agestandardised incidence of 125 per 100000 says Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi Associate Professor Department of Head and Neck Oncology Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai Oral cancer accounts for 94 per cent of all cancers in India oral cancer is not ... Read More

Health Buzz Kids Increasingly Injured After Swallowing Button Batteries

More kids are landing in the emergency room after swallowing coinsized button batteries There were nearly 66000 batteryrelated hospital visits by children under 18 between 1990 and 2009 and the annual number more than doubled jumping from 2591 to 5525 Thats according to a new study published today in Pediatrics The situation is worst for children 5... Read More