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 …
The first-ever lab study of junk foods in India by Centre for Science and Environment published in Down To Earth exposes dubious claims by fast food giants. Junk food is bad for health. Its definition tells its inner story—food that is high on calories and saturated fat but low on …
Every 17 seconds a person in the world is diagnosed with diabetes, it kills more people than HIV/AIDS and breast cancer combined, and an estimated 183 million people are unaware that they have diabetes. Diabetes is rife in Kuwait. The true incidence is not accurately known but what is certain …
Forget the sales pitch on the box and read the fine print. Is the promised 'low-fat' low enough, the 'multigrain' whole or refined? Sugar-free’ cream cookies, ‘wholegrain’ cereal bars, ‘all-natural’ fruit juice: it’s hard to ignore the screaming labels on superstore shelves, but can you take them at face value? …
Delhi-based NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has alleged that leading food manufacturers are guilty of “large scale misbranding and misinformation” by claiming that their food products contain zero trans fats even though tests show heavy doses of it. Most popular “junk foods contain very high levels of trans …
In January 2005, drug product patent protection was reintroduced in India to comply with the agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. How are the multinational pharmaceutical companies responding to the new policy environment? Is India likely to see monopolisation of the industry and high prices, which was …
The government proposes to convert the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) into a National Health Mission to provide health care to the urban poor also, in the course of the 12th Plan. Universal access to free generic essential medicines in public health institutions in a phased and time-bound manner will …
Mumbai: There may soon be changes in the labelling of widely-used cholesterol lowering drugs — statins — sold in the country. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that patients taking statins may face a “small increased risk” of higher blood-sugar levels and diabetes. Doctors here said that these …
Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it every day may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new U.S. study. Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank diet soda …
Mediator, a drug licensed for use by diabetics that became widely prescribed in France as a slimming aid, "probably" caused at least 1,300 deaths before it was withdrawn, a study published on Thursday said. Mahmoud Zureik of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), who co-led the probe, …
Food insecurity refers to the inability to afford enough food for an active, healthy life. Numerous studies have shown associations between food insecurity and adverse health outcomes among children. Studies of the health effects of food insecurity among adults are more limited and generally focus on the association between food …
Meet from Feb 9 to focus on yoga, naturopathy as preventive cure The State has as many as 68,000 children living with HIV/AIDS, out of a total of 1.98 lakh people affected by the syndrome (by the end of December 2011), according to Medical Education Minister S A Ramdas. Speaking …
A study on the apparent diabetes resistance of a tribal community in Rajasthan has found that they have the highest occurrence of the HLA gene, which makes the body predisposed to diabetes, in India, and possibly the world.The genetic profiling of the Raika community — a nomadic camel rearing tribal …
Exposure to nitrogen oxides in air causes increased risk of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in African-American women, a new study has revealed. Researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Centre (SEC) at Boston University assessed the risks of incident hypertension and diabetes associated with exposure to nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate …
Animal and cross-sectional epidemiological studies suggest a link between air pollution and diabetes, whereas the limited prospective data show mixed results. We studied the association between long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and incidence of diabetes.
Several studies have raised the suspicion that the body mass index (BMI) cut-off for overweight as defined by the WHO may not adequately reflect the actual overweight status. The present study looked at the relationship between BMI and body fat per cent (BF %) / health risks (hypertension and type …
Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan on Sunday announced establishing diabetes research centre at the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) and hoped it would help Pakistan sharing the international research efforts on this disease. He made this announcement while talking to foreign delegates of three-day International Conference on Diabetes …
KARACHI: International Diabetes Federation (IDF) president-elect Sir Michael Hirst has said that more than 300 million people have diabetes, representing six percent of the world’s adult population, with numbers increasing fast everywhere. This he said on Sunday while addressing the second session of a 3-day Second International Conference on Diabetes …
