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Who has framed the Food Safety and Standards Bill, the government or the industry?
When Parliament convenes for the monsoon session, the government plans to introduce the Food Safety and Standards Bill, 2005. I am sure the government will hope there is enough mayhem to distract the
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Lifestyle can shrink risk of getting adult diabetes
Offering hope that a rapid rise in diabetes in the United States can be reversed, a large clinical study has found that even modest lifestyle changes-eating less fat, excercising two and half hours a
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Breast cancer stalks urban women more
These are figures and trends that will worry Indian women on the eve of International Women's Day. Lifestyle, doctors say, is taking its toll on women's health. According to the trends in the cancer
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Women of west Mumbai suburbs prone to cancer
Studies show that women from the western suburbs are more likely to develop breast cancer and osteoporosis, due to their stressful lifestyles. A survey conducted by Mayo clinic in the western suburbs
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Govt, NGOs oblivious of rising pollution
Increasing air pollution in the Peshawar city, Pakistan is adversely affecting the lifestyle of people as more and more people are complaining to have contracted respiratory and hearing problems.
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Lifestyle takes its toll
Rapid industrialisation and modernisation in Gurgaon over the past decade has resulted in sedentary lifestyle and fast food culture among residents of the posh colonies. This has resulted in the rise
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Aching back: a family legacy
Backache is the second major cause of employee absenteeism after common cold. Now, Susanna Annunen and her team from the University of Oulu in Finland report that inter-vertebral disk disease, also
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Heredity Is culprit in cataracts
Heredity plays a far larger role in the development of cataracts than widely blamed lifestyle factors such as smoking, a study found. The finding could lead researchers to seek genes linked to
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Abreast of cancer
According to medical experts, the incidence of the disease in India has increased sharply in the past decade . This is due to changes in the lifestyle and what Sarin terms as "self-promotion". "The
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Now China press blares SARS warnings
After a near blackout on coverage of SARS, China is orchestrating a media blitz to convince its citizens to adopt healthier lifestyles in hopes of fending off the virus. State television warns people
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Ready to bloat
Anti obesity drug market set to get bigger
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IMA conference on lifestyle & health begins on Thursday
To focus on this issue and find lasting solutions to the lifestyle-related medical problems, the Indian Medical Association (IMA0 is organising a three-day Second International Conference on
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Lifestyle diseases in ascendancy
Non-communicable diseases (NCD) or lifestyle diseases may not have appeared among the top ten diseases in the country, but they were increasing at an alarming rate and were an unwelcome addition to infectious diseases, which were still of grave concern to the health of the Bhutanese, say health officials. Figures in the health ministry's 2007 bulletin, which features a selected number of lifestyle diseases by their hierarchy of prevalence among Bhutanese, indicate that all are on the rise. Musculoskeletal disorder, caused by a job or activity, requiring a fixed position over a long period of time and associated with poor workplace design, topped the list with about 71,849 patients being referred to various hospitals around the country in 2006, an increase by more than 11,000 from the previous year. Hypertension, most commonly referred to as "high blood pressure', which develops in people, who have a fairly high intake of salt, followed with 20,501 patients being diagnosed with the disease, a steep climb compared with 16,570 patients in 2006 and 14,195 in 2004. About 1,531 patients visiting hospitals across the country in 2006 were for alcohol liver diseases, which involves an acute or chronic inflammation of the liver, induced by alcohol abuse. That was an increase from 1,217 in 2005. Diabetes, which has a higher prevalence among people in their old age and is caused by high sugar levels, accounted for 1,470 patients in 2006, an increase by more than 500 from the previous year. Although the trend may not be the same in the case of cancer, it is also on the rise from 555 patients diagnosed with the disease in 2005 to 587 in 2006. At present, there exists no system of reporting cancers by type in the country. The figures of all these diseases could be significantly higher had the cases with the out-patient department (OPD) from the national referral hospital in Thimphu been included. The annual bulletin states that the urban population in the country had shot up from 16 percent in 2000 to 31 percent in 2005, and that TVs have entered into rural settings. Thus a large section of the Bhutanese population, it said, was exposed to many of the unhealthy lifestyles and behaviours of the developed world, propagated mainly through this medium. Such behavioural changes would only result in the emergence of non-communicable diseases, in addition to the already flourishing communicable diseases, some of which the country is still grappling with today, states the report. By Samten Wangchuk samme@kuensel.com.bt
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Viagra may hit health service potency
That the drug Viagra has the capacity to add life to flagging sex lives in not in doubt. Less clear is whether the pill and other lifestyle drugs that are bound to follow it - could have a rather
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Changes to Airborne Pollen Counts across Europe
<p>A progressive global increase in the burden of allergic diseases has affected the industrialized world over the last half century and has been reported in the literature. The clinical evidence reveals
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Genes, lifestyle determine risk of Alzheimer's
New research into Alzheimer's disease is showing that genetic factors can interact with a person's lifestyle like fatty diets to increase the risk of getting the disease, doctors said. Doctors
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Sedentary lifestyles can lead to disability, even death: WHO
A sedentary lifestyle could well be among the 10 leading causes of death and disability says a WHO report released on the eve of World Health Day. WHO has estimated that 60 to 85 per cent of the
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Rapid urban assessment of air quality for Kathmandu, Nepal
As South Asia becomes more and more industrialized, populations are moving from an agrarian lifestyle to one that is increasingly urbanized. Increased industrialization and the growth of urban areas are
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India among 'top 10' in diabetes
Obesity, unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle are bringing about a sharp increase in diabetes prevalence. India is estimated to have the largest growing number of diabetes patients in the worlds.