New research published in The Lancet indicates that alcohol consumption was linked to more than 741,000 new cancer cases in 2020. The study, which “[presents] global, regional, and national estimates of alcohol-attributable cancer burden in 2020 to inform alcohol policy and cancer control across different settings globally”, estimated that 741,300 new cancer cases in 2020 …
Another round of deaths has once more brought one of the major issues blighting public health in Uttar Pradesh to the forefront: illicit alcohol. Reports have surfaced this week of deaths in the Barabanki district of India’s most populous state, with consumption of hooch said to be responsible. Eighteen people have died at the time …
Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh have been blighted with news of the recent cases of bootleg alcohol deaths. However, for many in the state this is a daily reality. An investigation by the Times of India has revealed that for some villages and towns, this is a perfectly normal situation. Pusaina in Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh …
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The recent spate of alcohol related deaths in India have drawn international media attention. Though not the first time the illegal alcohol trade has claimed a large death toll, this instance — in which potentially around a hundred lives have been lost — has occurred in such a short time frame it has been a …
Toxic alcohol has potentially killed more than a hundred people in India. The suspected cause? The illegally produced alcohol was ‘laced with methanol’. This incident, like the many others involving bootleg alcohol before it, has been likened by some to a massacre. Personal accounts paint a horrific scene Pintu Kumar, a farmhand in northern …
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