Report by the Central Pollution Control Board in the matter of In re: News item appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023 titled “Delhi, Chennai studies hint at pollution link to diabetes” dated 14/12/2023. CPCB has duly identified 131 cities exceeding National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) consecutively for five …
More than four lakh children suffering from type-1 diabetes in the country are dependent on supplemental insulin, and the number is increasing every year, said doctors and experts at a programme on Monday. They made the remarks at a day-long New Year celebration programme organised by Bangladesh Diabetic Samity (BADAS), …
Scheme To Be Launched At All Medical Colleges And District Hospitals In The State From April 7 Jaipur: As instances of lifestyle diseases are on the rise, the state government is intensifying the fight to check its growing threat on the urban as well as the rural population. In one …
Hill States Have Highest Rates Of Diabetes, Hypertension New Delhi: Surprising trends have emerged from the health ministry’s first-ever large-scale study to check for diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure) by actually testing blood samples from the country’s general population. In the first phase of the study that checked 1.06 …
India needs to wake up to the threat from rising air pollution, which has been declared as one of the top 10 killers in the world by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, which tracks deaths and illnesses from all causes across the world. According to the latest GBD, …
Factors in 2010: diabetes, high blood pressure, tobacco smoking, including second-hand smoking, and alcohol use The three leading risk factors for global disease burden in 2010 were high blood pressure, tobacco smoking, including second-hand smoking, and alcohol use, while in 1990 the leading risks were childhood underweight, household pollution from …
Even as one in four deaths worldwide in 2010 was caused by heart disease or stroke — the top two killers that have remained constant for the past 40 years — human mortality caused by climate change has shown the most dangerous spurt over the last four decades. The Global …
Non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease killed two out of three people in 2010 — a larger share than in 1990, when they were responsible for every second death in the world. Of the 52.8 million people who died worldwide in 2010, ischaemic heart disease and stroke accounted …
The discovery of a new gene causing Type 2 diabetes in the Indian population by an entirely Indian cast of researchers has opened up a hitherto unknown and new line of enquiry into the mechanism of the disease. According to a paper published in the December edition of Diabetes, the …
To date, over 19,000 poor patients have benefited from tertiary-level hospital services The Centre, Karnataka and the World Bank today signed a $70 million additional credit agreement for the ongoing Karnataka Health System Development and Reform Project to further support improvements in health service delivery, particularly for the underserved areas …
Karachi—Every four out of ten people in our country is either suffering from diabetes or is at high risk to be inflicted with it, said Dr. Zahid Mian, associated with institute of diabetology, Baqai Medical University. In a public awareness program arranged with the support of a local NGO here …
Publicly-held biotechnology major Biocon Ltd on Friday announced it had entered into an agreement with the US-based $21-billion Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) to further develop its IN-105, an oral insulin product candidate. Biocon will use BMS’ expertise in clinical trials and get help in redesigning Phase-II trials of the blockbuster drug. …
The National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke has been implemented in four districts of Haryana-Mewat, Ambala, Kurukshetra and Yamunanagar. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said here yesterday that the programme had been launched by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in …
India has 63 million people living with diabetes and is only second to China in terms of global diabetes cases warns this Diabetes Atlas 2012 released by International Diabetes Federation today on World Diabetes Day. World Diabetes Day 2012, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has released the latest global and …
New Delhi: Diabetes, traditionally linked to a rise in blood sugar level due to a combination of lifestyle and hereditary risks, may also have some connection with the brain. In a mega study, a team of Indian scientists have discovered a neurological link to type II diabetes (T2D), a finding …
These guidelines provide recommendations on the diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes and the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary health care in low-resource settings. The target users are health care professionals responsible for developing the protocols which will be used by health care staff …
New Delhi: Testing blood sugar levels will now take just about a minute, cost less than Rs 2 and require 1,000 times lesser blood than what glucose meters currently use. In what will be a real boon for a majority of India’s 61 million diabetics, many of whom have to …
Previous studies have suggested that diabetes mellitus (DM) is an outcome of exposure to air pollution, and metabolic detoxification genes affect air pollution–related outcomes. The researchers evaluated associations between air pollutants and markers of insulin resistance (IR), an underlying mechanism of type 2 DM, and effect modification by GSTM1, GSTT1, …
Apart from increasing nutrition of schoolchildren, the move will help to boost production The Agriculture Ministry has asked the States to include millets in the mid-day meal scheme to increase the demand for the cereal and, thereby, enhance farm incomes.Millet crops or coarse cereals are known for their high nutritional …
If you are a high-pressure executive, beware of your amygdala. That almond-shaped fear centre deep inside your brain gets jittery every time you log 60-plus hours a week, face 24x7 demands, unpredictable work-flows, endless jet lags, flexible global hours, late nights or sleeplessness. It puts your brain on alert and …
With non-communicable diseases (NCDs) expected to rise in years to come, the Planning Commission, in its proposed health chapter for the 12th Plan, has recommended a package of policy interventions for the escalating threat of NCDs like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases which will emerge as major …
