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 …
Financial bids to be opened on May 25, scheme to be rolled out in a month PANJIM: For the first time in the country diabetes insulin will be covered under a State health insurance scheme, which is all set to be rolled out by the government in May this year. …
Ahmedabad: Heena Patel (38) is in shock. The doctors recently removed almost half of her face, including the right eye, in a surgery to save her life. Heena has seen many oral cancer patients undergo such surgeries but all she had was a fungal infection! "Heena is not alone, the …
Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcomes. The estimated trends in mean body-mass index (BMI), which characterises its population distribution, and in the prevalences of a complete set of BMI categories for adults in all countries. Original Source
Exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is known to increase risk of diabetes. The objective of the study was to determine which POPs are most associated with prevalence of diabetes in 601 Akwesasne Native Americans. Original Source
A week ahead of the World Health Day, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has highlighted the need for countries in the south-east Asia region to take vigorous and concerted action to prevent, treat and beat diabetes. The potentially fatal disease has reached epidemic proportions and is expected to spread further …
Diabetes and obesity are major threats to public health in the US and abroad. Understanding the role chemicals in our environment play in the development of these conditions is an emerging issue in environmental health, although identifying and prioritizing chemicals for testing beyond those already implicated in the literature is …
Experts Beg To Differ With Health Minister Even as the Union health minister J P Nadda made a pitch for vegetarian food by counting on its health benefits, doctors say a well-balanced diet, rich in all nutrients, is the key to healthy living. While most doctors agree vegetables, fruits and …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Cardiovascular Diseases in the Country, 08/03/2016. According to the report of National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (NCMH), there were 380 lakh cases of CVD in the year 2005 and these are estimated to rise to 641 lakh cases in 2015. A Statement showing …
High levels of insulin directly damage the lung structure, says global study Diabetes may be impeding the normal functioning of lungs and common medicines that are used to treat insulin resistance may actually be exacerbating conditions such as asthma, report a team of Indian, European and American scientists in a …
Hyderabad: Skipping iron rich foods such as spinach, meat and lentils seems to be costing city women their health as a whopping 40.52% of them were found to be anaemic in a recent survey . The shocking findings by SRL diagnostics -which runs a chain of 306 diagnostic laboratories across …
At a time when doctors talk of a diabetic epidemic in society, a well-known diabetologist in Chen nai has argued that the disease is over-diagnosed. Questioning the use of medication, Dr C V Krishnaswami has also advocated the use of alternative healing in diabetes treatment -methods that other doctors, asking …
Participants of Hispanic/Latino origin across the United States aged 45 to 74 years were enrolled into the Echocardiographic Study of Latinos (ECHO-SOL) and underwent a comprehensive echocardiography examination to define left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD). Clinical HF was defined according to self-report, and those …
Exposure to polluted air may increase the risk of obesity and lead to high cholesterol and more insulin resistance, a precursor of Type 2 diabetes, a new study has warned. Researchers from Duke University in US found that laboratory rats who breathed Beijing's highly polluted air gained weight and experienced …
The health ministry has chalked out an overarching National Multi-Sectoral Action Plan with the aim to reduce premature deaths from cancer, diabetes and heart diseases by 25% in the next 10 years (by 2025). The plan, which includes initiatives and measures from at least 27 government departments including ministries like …
Expenditure On Treatment 5 Times Govt's Allocation On Health The annual spend on account of diabetes treatment in India is pegged at Rs 1.5 lakh crore, 4.7 times the Centre's allocation of Rs 32,000 crore on health and three-fourth of the budgeted service tax collections this fiscal, with experts saying …
Six-year-old Karthik from Ramanagaram had his eye balls jutting out along with persistent fever since he was two. Born to a diabetic auto rickshaw driver and a mother who does odd jobs to earn money for his treatment, Karthik was diagnosed with cancer at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, six …
Visakhapatnam: Notwithstanding the successive governments’ tall claims, dengue and chikungunya cases continue to rattle Andhra Pradesh – if the number of cases registered over the last few years is anything is anything to go by. As the dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika virus (which has been currently gripping the …
Researchers have uncovered a novel mechanism behind the ability of the diabetes drug metformin to inhibit the progression of pancreatic cancer. Researchers found that metformin decreases the inflammation and fibrosis characteristic of the most common form of pancreatic cancer. The findings indicate that this beneficial effect may be most prevalent …
BHUBANESWAR: With diabetes fast assuming the shape of epidemic, not even sparing the backward regions and lower strata of the population in Odisha, the Government should act urgently to gear up its public health response systems, experts stressed. The State is simply not ready to tackle the disease that is …
The effects of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the body's physiological response to thermal stress is a relatively new topic in research. Diabetes tends to place individuals at greater risk for heat-related illness during heat waves and physical activity due to an impaired capacity to dissipate heat. Specifically, …
