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 …
LATELY things have not been going smoothly for Koel Dutta. A homemaker in Kolkata, the 38-year-old has asthma. Doctors have put her on Pediapred—a class of glucocorticoid steroids—for the past one year. Since January, Dutta was getting fractures easily. Once she tripped on the doorstep and fractured her wrist. The …
Rupali Mukherjee | TNN New Delhi: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has directed pharma biggie GlaxoSmithKline to stop enrolling new subjects worldwide for conducting safety studies of controversial diabetes pill, Rosiglitazone (Avandia) till regulators decide whether the drug will be banned. In India, at least 20 cities including …
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: At daybreak, this 45-year-old woman in Chhaniyan village in Vadgam taluka of Banaskantha gets ready for her morning walk. And, when she leaves, she has in tow a rather strange company. Held in her hands are ropes that are pulling along a buffalo. It is …
P.Sunderarajan NEW DELHI : Soon, insulin-dependent diabetic patients may be able to lead a more relaxed life, without having to constantly monitor their glucose levels and frequently take insulin shots. A team of scientists at the National Institute of Immunology here, led by its Director Avadhesha Surolia, has developed a …
Mumbai, 4 JULY: President Pratibha Patil today called upon the medical community to evolve a comprehensive strategy to tackle the emerging threat of lifestyle diseases and provide health care to the rural areas. Inaugurating the 1,500-bed Seven Hills Hospital, billed as the largest private sector health care facility in Asia, …
Teena Thacker Following a recent study by the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), stating that anti-diabetic drug Rosiglitazone may be associated with an increased risk of life-threatening diseases, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on Friday put on hold the clinical trails of the drug going on at …
Rupali Mukherjee | TNN Mumbai: Long-suffering diabetics can find daily insulin jabs painful and cumbersome, so a new, once-a-week shot may soon revolutionize treatment for thousands suffering from the dreaded disease. Researchers have found that a long-acting medication, exenatide, if injected once a week, improves blood sugar control and induces …
Replacing traditional foods with imported, processed food has contributed to the high prevalence of obesity and related health problems in the Pacific islands.
Brown A Better Option, Is Rich In Vitamins And Minerals, Says Research Washington: In a finding which has implications for Asians, including Indians, whose staple food is rice, scientists claim to have found that eating white rice could increase one
Obese diabetics will soon have a better option to reduce their weight and consequently their blood sugar levels, with a new drug, Victoza (liraglutide), all set to be launched in India this month. Already launched in Europe and the US, the drug will hit the stores in India
Acute exposure to ambient air pollution has been associated with cardiac outcomes, often within hours of exposure. The incidence of effects within the population depends on a number of factors, including genetic differences. Baja et al. examined the associations of air pollutants with heart-rate
NEW DELHI: Sixty-two per cent of diabetics in the Capital have inadequately controlled blood sugar levels despite treatment while another 27 per cent have kidney complications. In addition, 65 per cent of the diabetic patients are hypertensive. This has been revealed in a recent study by Aventis Pharma Limited (Sanofi-aventis …
HONG KONG: People who move from villages to cities to work are more likely to end up obese and suffer from diabetes compared to their siblings who remain behind, a large study in India has found. The study, involving 6,510 participants from north, central and south India, found that half …
India, like the rest of the world, is experiencing an epidemic of diabetes, a chronic disease characterized by dangerous levels of sugar in the blood that cause cardiovascular and kidney disease, which lower life expectancy. The prevalence of diabetes (the proportion of the population with diabetes) has been increasing steadily …
HAKAM SINGH, 59, runs a taxi business near the Inter State Bus Terminus at Kashmere Gate in New Delhi. He sits in a one-room office that overlooks the long rows of neatly parked black and yellow cabs. From morning till night, every day, he tends to phone calls while calculating …
Recent epidemiological studies suggest that diabetes mellitus is a strong risk factor for Alzheimer disease. However, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. In this study, to investigate the pathophysiological interaction between these diseases, we generated animal models that reflect the pathologic conditions of both diseases. We crossed Alzheimer transgenic mice …
Increasing prevalence of childhood obesity calls for comprehensive and cost-effective educative measures in developing countries such as India. School-based educative programmes greatly influence children's behaviour towards healthy living. We aimed to evaluate the impact of a school-based health and nutritional education programme on knowledge and behaviour of urban Asian Indian …
