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Zubeda Hamid

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Sep 5, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Zubeda Hamid

    What are cancer ‘vaccines’ and will they revolutionise treatment? | In Focus podcast (opens the original)

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    There’s been a lot of excitement in the cancer research field recently. Preliminary results from a trial with patients who had melanoma or skin cancer, showed that a ‘cancer vaccine’ had been successful in reducing the recurrence of melanoma tumours. This vaccine, called instamaren autogene, is based on mRNA technology – the same tech that was used to manufacture Covid vaccines during the pandemic. A number of other trials across the world are also looking into how mRNA vaccines can help

  2. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Zubeda Hamid

    Health Matters newsletter On the fight against big food and big tech (opens the original)

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    For many years now, activists in India have been fighting an uphill battle: getting healthy foods on the plates of people, both adults and children. What are they up against? A steady stream of ultraprocessed food, food that is high in fat, sugar and sodium, labels that either do not warn consumers or do so in text that is not displayed prominently, misleading claims about the ‘health’ benefits of certain food, unfettered advertisements, and worst of all, food sold in India that is unhealthier c

  3. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Zubeda Hamid

    Chennai’s coast: the biggest open air arena that entertains all (opens the original)

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    For centuries (presumably), the answer to the question ‘What do we do now?’ posed by restless children, bored teenagers, and crotchety senior citizens in Madras, to their family and friends has been, ‘Let’s go to the beach’. Chennai’s long, winding coastline offers the city its biggest open-air, free entertainment zone — a democratised space of salt, sea breezes, and sundal, where entertainment doesn’t have to be looked for — it just is. The coastline is rich in its offerings.

  4. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Zubeda Hamid

    Chronic kidney disease: Why has a Parliamentary committee called for mandatory testing? | In Focus podcast (opens the original)

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    It’s one of those conditions that has no symptoms during its early stages, meaning that by the time it is diagnosed, it could be very late: chronic kidney diseases, or CKD, has been in the news recently after a Parliamentary Standing Committee tabled a report on this condition in the Rajya Sabha earlier this month, and made a series of 66 recommendations. Significantly, the committee recommended diagnosis methodologies, called for a national CKD screening protocol and a registry, highlighted CKD

  5. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Zubeda Hamid

    Three common medicines have been declared carcinogenic. What does this mean for patients? | In Focus podcast (opens the original)

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    Last week, startling headlines hit the news. Three commonly prescribed medicines, hydrochlorothiazide, used to treat high blood pressure, voriconazole, an antifungal medicine and tacrolimus, an immunosuppressant were classified as carcinogenic, or cancer causing, to humans. The classification was made by the International Agency for Research on Cancer or IARC, which is the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency. According to the IARC, there is sufficient evidence that hydrochlorothia

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