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 …
Obstetricians and gynaecologists are pitching for a one-step test to detect signs of diabetes in pregnant women and as a possible step towards preventing the disease in their babies. The standard test involves cumbersome steps for screening and diagnosis, the cause for many dropouts, while the one-step, DIPSI test not …
Nearly 80 to 90 liver transplants are being performed in a year in Chennai, says expert VELLORE: With Hepatitis B and C being viruses which mainly damage the liver, India accounts for medium prevalence of hepatitis in the world. Approximately, the country has seven to eight per cent prevalence of …
Non-communicable diseases represent a new frontier in the fight to improve global health. Worldwide, the increase in such diseases means that they are now responsible for more deaths than all other causes combined. Commonly known as chronic or lifestyle-related diseases, the main non-communicable diseases are cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and …
Health Ministry warns that around 50 to 75 percent of Sri Lankans are prone to non-communicable diseases. Already five out of ten persons in urban areas and one out of ten persons in rural areas had been suffering from non communicable diseases (NCD), a spokesman for the Health Ministry said. …
On the idea behind the project The project was developed for the eighth edition of the annual International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition in synthetic biology, hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in November 2010. Under this project we developed an artificial sweetener. We wanted to develop something that could …
PUBLIC health programmes in India are focused on infectious diseases like cholera and malaria. But non-communicable diseases (NCDS) like cancer and heart ailments are known to kill more people. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad acknowledged rising incidence of NCDS at a two-day World Health Organization (WHO) meeting which concluded …
The objective of the study was to study the prevalence of prediabetes among school children in Mysore city. http://www.indianpediatrics.net/apr2011/295.pdf
he American Lung Association released its annual report on air quality, State of the Air 2011, which includes lists of the nation’s most polluted metropolitan areas. This year’s report finds that the majority of American cities most-polluted by ozone (smog) or year-round particle pollution (soot) have improved, showing continued progress …
The Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2010 is the first report on the worldwide epidemic of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, along with their risk factors and determinants.
Starting in 2011-12, the central government is planning to screen the entire population above 30 years of age for non-communicable illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension in five years. All pregnant women, irrespective of age, will also be part of this exercise. The ambitious plan is part of a national …
The energy drinks market in the country is worth Rs 200 crore and is growing unregulated and several studies confirm that energy drinks can be unsafe. But in India these drinks are labelled as proprietary food that has no prescribed standards. Read this special report in Down to Earth to …
In January, about 300 people in the US suffered health problems from excessive consumption of energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster; most of them were children and teenagers, as per the American Association of Poison Control Centers. The association has recently started tracking the toxicity of energy drinks that …
New Delhi: A thrice-a-week insulin shot instead of the once-a-day shot at present could soon be a reality. Doctors from India, Canada, US and South Africa have jointly tested the most promising new form of long acting insulin, Degludec, needed once every 48 hours, and found it to be as …
Indians should develop their own medical guidelines to tackle ailments like diabetes and heart disease, as the protocols currently used in India to treat them are more suited to westerners, says a latest International Journal of Obesity study. Experts say Indians face a higher risk of diabetes and heart disease …
Taking serious note of the spurt in cases of lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension, the BMC has proposed an allocation of Rs2 crore to combat the problem. This is a first of its kind effort from the civic body. In its budget, which was presented on Friday, the BMC …
Speakers at a seminar have said the number of diabetic patients in Bangladesh is increasing at an alarming rate as about 5.7 million people in the country are suffering from the disease. The number of diabetic patients is annually growing at a rate of three percent in the country and …
BHUBANESWAR: Deulisahi, an impoverished village in Jagatsinghpur district, and Krushnanandapur, a nearby village brimming with affluence, may be pictures in contrast. But they have queerly presented similar features of alarmingly high incidence of diabetes, prompting health researchers to conduct a study to find out the causative factors for this phenomenon. …
