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Negligence regarding the health of children

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  World Cancer Day is celebrated every year on 4th February all over the world. Its goal is to make people aware of a deadly disease like cancer. But this initiative, started 22 years ago, still has not been able to improve the situation in India. Cancer remains a topic in the country even today, on which people do not want to talk openly. To find out why, we spoke to Dr. Vivek Bansal, Senior Radiation Oncologist, Apollo CBCC Cancer Care Hospital, Ahmedabad. Question- What are the reasons for low awareness among people about cancer? Answer- A major reason behind the low awareness about cancer is the lack of education in the cities and villages. In rural areas, the situation is even worse. Due to lack of education, patients reach late for treatment and ignore the early symptoms of cancer. Medical facilities are also not good in such places. For example, if a patient has ulcerative cancer in the mouth, it is possible that the local doctor will prescribe him some other disease and treat h
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Immunity of patients destroying at double speed

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 While on the one hand the whole world is engaged in fighting the variants of the corona virus, on the other hand a new variant of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been detected. Scientists in the Netherlands have found a super-mutant strain of HIV that makes patients sick more quickly than existing variants of the virus. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) occurs in people infected with HIV. This virus is usually spread through having unprotected sex. It kills the immune cells called CD4 present in the patient's body. Due to this, people also get very easily from minor diseases like colds. There is currently no permanent cure for HIV/AIDS. This can only be avoided. New strains of HIV may lead to early AIDS stage According to the scientists of Oxford University, the name of this new variant is VB variant. At present it is spreading rapidly in the Netherlands. Due to this, CD4 cells in infected people are decreasing at twice the rate. If not tested at the right time, the
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