The Week India - July 29, 2018

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HEALTH

THE WEEK · JULY 29, 2018

REGULARS

LETTERS 4

QUICK SCAN 6

BABY STEPS 16

YOGA MADE EASY 42

The Week Supplement: Printed

at Malayala Manorama Press,

Kottayam, and published

from Manorama Buildings,

Panampilly Nagar, Kochi-682

036, by Jacob Mathew, on behalf

of the Malayala Manorama

Co. Ltd., Kottayam-686 001.

Editor: Philip Mathew.

Focus/In focus features are

marketing initiatives

COVER DESIGN

Binesh Sreedharan

LAYOUT

Job P.K., Manoj Kumar B.,

Ajeesh Kumar M., Sumesh C.N.,

Deni Lal, Syam Krishnan

CONTENTS

SILVER LINING............................18

Games and puzzles are good for

agility of brain and stress reduction

in seniors

CHECKMATE, CANCER

Personalised medicine, immunotherapy and gene

editing will change cancer prevention and treatment

in the future. In India, scientists, through various

researches, are striving for better treatment of the

deadly disease

● Immunotherapy offers hope to patients and an

opportunity for oncologists

● Human trials will soon begin for cancer 'vaccine'

developed by scientists of Stanford University

School of Medicine

● Dr Parameswaran Hari, chief of oncology at the

Medical College of Wisconsin, talks about the new

double-targeted CAR-T treatment

● Vaccine created from pluripotent stem cells could

prevent cancer, says Dr Joseph Wu, director,

Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University

COVER STORY .... 20

VIBI JOB