Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Americans are getting fatter, and older. These converging trends are putting the USA on the path to an alarming health crisis: Nearly half of adults have either pre-diabetes or diabetes, raising their risk of heart attacks, blindness, amputations and cancer. Federal health statistics show that 12.3% of Americans 20 and …
China has a large burden of diabetes: in 2013, one in four people with diabetes worldwide were in China, where 11·6% of adults had diabetes and 50·1% had prediabetes. Many were undiagnosed, untreated, or uncontrolled. This epidemic is the result of rapid societal transition that has led to an obesogenic …
The prevalence of diabetes in China has increased substantially over recent decades, with more than 100 million people estimated to be affected by the disease presently. During this period there has been an increase in the rates of obesity and a reduction in physical activity. Many of the changes in …
Diabetes triples the risk of tuberculosis and is also a risk factor for adverse tuberculosis treatment outcomes, including death. Prevalence of diabetes is increasing globally, but most rapidly in low-income and middle-income countries where tuberculosis is a grave public health problem. Growth in this double disease burden creates additional obstacles …
The State of Human Development in the Pacific: A Report on Vulnerability and Exclusion in a time of rapid change examines the stark realities of a region in which one in four people are now living below their national basic-needs poverty line; and also have limited access to essential services …
Parts of Europe are reaching a "tipping point" where cardiovascular disease is no longer the leading cause of death, a study shows. Four million deaths each year - nearly half the European total - are due to cardiovascular disease. But a report in the European Heart Journal shows improving heart …
Researchers suggest obesity's effects on cancers vary depending on the type of tumour Being overweight and obese puts people at greater risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers, according to research in the Lancet medical journal. Scientists calculated individuals carrying this extra weight could contribute to more than …
Despite advances toward sustainable development, small island developing States (SIDS) continue to face many challenges, according to ‘Trends in Sustainable Development: SIDS,' a publication issued by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) as an input to the Third International Conference on SIDS. …
The major aim of this review is to assess the nutrition transition in Uttrakhand toward, to its contribution to the emerging epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases. Original Source
AFTER rising steadily for more than 10 years, the proportion of U.S. kids defined as obese due to a large waist circumference held steady between 2003 and 2012, according to a new analysis of national data. The new results echo recent studies that found the increase in U.S. obesity rates …
Morbidity due to non-communicable diseases accounts for a large share of disease burden in India The ninth edition of the National Health Profile, 2013, released here on Thursday, reveals that per capita private expenditure on health is three to four times higher than per capita public expenditure in all major …
Andheri (E) seems to be the hotbed of diseases, shows a study conducted by NGO Praja Foundation after analyzing health data from the civic corporation. If the high incidence of infectious diseases is a marker of quality of life, then Andheri (E) fares poorly with the suburb registering the highest …
Mexico is restricting television advertising for high-calorie food and soft drinks, as part of its campaign against obesity, the government says. Such ads will be banned with immediate effect on terrestrial and cable TV between 14:30 and 19:30 on weekdays and between 07:30 and 19:30 at weekends. Restrictions will also …
Death Certificates Show Higher Toll, Says NGO Report The city's ill-health graph is a bit skewed, claimed NGO Praja Foundation on Tuesday. It used data drawn from BMC's health department to show a huge disparity between the number of deaths the civic body attributes to diseases and the reasons given …
One in every four Sri Lankans face the risk of high blood pressure. The lack of exercise is one of the main factors for this, Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said. He said Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have become one of the main health challenges for Sri Lanka and the world. …
The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Chennai, India, using national and international age- and sex- specific body mass index (BMI) cut-off points. Original Source
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According to this WHO report 28 million people die each year from Non-communicable diseases in developing countries, mainly from cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes Current global mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) remains unacceptably high and is increasing. Thirty-eight million people die each year from NCDs, mainly from …
KATHMANDU: Noncommunicable diseases, also known as chronic diseases, are a major public health problem with a large number of people having at least one risk factor, according to a report of a survey conducted by the Nepal Health Research Council with the support of the Ministry of Health and Population …
A study done in four Caribbean countries has found that 30 per cent of children aged 11 to 13 were overweight or obese, a senior official of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has said. Dr Audrey Morris, the advisor on Food and Nutrition at PAHO, told a workshop to …
