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 …
Pune: Two more people have succumbed to swine flu in different hospitals in the city since Tuesday, taking the city’s H1N1 death toll to 29 so far this year. The virus has claimed six lives in the last nine days. At present, six people with the infection are in critical …
MUMBAI: The good and bad of Mumbai are both translating into an unhealthy portrait of the city. On the one hand, its status as the highest per capita income city could be fuelling its biggest health problems — namely the twin epidemics of diabetes and hypertension. On the other, being …
Chemists Say They Are Yet To Get Drugs With Revised Pricing From Monday the most essential drugs will go cheaper by10 to 50% as the revised prices fixed by the national pharmaceutical pricing authority comes into force. In the first phase the prices of 151 formulations will come down and …
For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world. Chile, one of the …
Washington: The US Food and Drug Administration has cracked down on what is widely considered alternative or natural treatment for diabetes, including ayurvedic and homeopathic remedies. Fifteen companies in the US, including some that procure alternative diabetes medication from India, have been served warning letters by the FDA, asking them …
London: Skipping breakfast, common the world over, has for the first time been associated with an increase in heart attacks. Missing out on the morning meal has been found to increase coronary heart disease risk, reveals a 16-yearlong study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Men who skip …
More than 3.5 million mothers and children under five die unnecessarily each year due to the underlying cause of undernutrition, and millions more are permanently disabled by the physical and mental effects of a poor dietary intake in the earliest months of life. By the time children reach their second …
Study Shows Excess Body Weight Is Linked To A Child’s Socio-Economic Status In a state in famous for malnutrition, one out of five teens going to private schools is either overweight or obese. This has been revealed in a study onducted by National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (N-DOC). The …
Mumbai: The government has banned three popular medicines — the widely prescribed anti-diabetes drug pioglitazone, painkiller analgin and anti-depressant deanxit — given the health risks associated with them. While pioglitazone is feared to cause heart failure and increase the risk of bladder cancer, analgin has been discarded globally over patient …
‘State has 36,000 HIV+ people in the grey zone who are unaware of the infection’ Of the 6.51 lakh units of blood collected in Karnataka from April 2012 to March 2013, 1,096 were found to be HIV positive and therefore discarded. Shockingly, of these, a mere 236 (21.5 per cent) …
New Delhi : In an article printed this week, British Medical Journal has raised questions about the safety of a class of “new-age” drugs touted not only as a wonder cure for type 2 diabetes but also hailed for its possible potential as a weight loss agent. The BMJ article …
Diabetes has become one of the leading public health issues in the country. The Government of India has a strong commitment to tackle this challenge through the National Program on Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) programme. A strong need was being felt to understand …
Cancer has been the leading cause of death in Taiwan for 31 consecutive years, local authorities said Thursday. Cancer is followed by cardiac and cerebrovascular disease in terms of mortality, according to statistics released by the island's health authorities on Thursday. Nearly 70 percent of last year's 153,823 Taiwan deaths …
The action plan provides a road map and a menu of policy options for all Member States and other stakeholders, to take coordinated and coherent action, at all levels, local to global, to attain the nine voluntary global targets, including that of a 25% relative reduction in premature mortality from …
Non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental disorders, and injuries have become the major causes of morbidity and mortality in Pakistan. Tobacco use and hypertension are the leading attributable risk factors for deaths due to cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and respiratory diseases. Pakistan has the sixth highest …
On July 10, 1976, a chemical explosion in Seveso, Italy, resulted in the highest known residential exposure to TCDD. Using data from the Seveso Women’s Health Study (SWHS), a cohort study of the health of the women, the researchers examined the relation of serum TCDD to diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and …
Washington: Scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher, have linked perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) — a chemical found in microwave popcorn bags — to cardiovascular disease. PFOA is also found in nonstick cookware, food wrappers, furniture, and even raincoats. Researchers from West Virginia University School of Public Health, Morgantown, looked at the …
Expressing concern over the growing problem of vitamin-D deficiency across the globe, the second international conference on “Vitamin-D deficiency and its health consequences”, held recently in Abu Dhabi, has stressed on creating awareness and education among the masses, especially women, to control this global pandemic. The prime objective of the …
The "zero-calorie" artificial sweetener has gone sour. The sweetener which became quite popular over the past decade has been found to increase blood sugar, making it anything but safe for diabetics, its USP. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine have found that "zero-calorie" sucralose — marketed as splenda, …
People taking hight protein diets, alcohol at risk Punjabis are fond of eating high-calorie food and many of them also love to have alcohol along with it. The protein rich diet, which they take affects their health. This is the reason that indiscipline dietary habits of Punjabis are giving Punjab …
