The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Obstetricians and healthcare workers must pull out all stops in bringing down pregnancy related deaths was the primary objective of the maternal and perinatal health workshop sponsored by Asia Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and annual conference of Tiruchi Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society (TRIOGS) that concluded here on Sunday. …
Haryana government on Friday banned manufacture, storage, distribution or sale of Gutkha, Pan Masala, Zarda (chewing tobacco) or other items with tobacco and nicotine content. This was decided at a meeting of the Haryana cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The ban will come into effect on August …
New Delhi: The amount of salt and sugar on the menus of fast food companies in India may soon come under the scanner. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said it would like to see the Union health ministry regulate the use of salt and sugar in the fast …
New Delhi: Diabetes patients monitoring glucose levels regularly will attest to the fact that testing strips — expensive and sometimes hard to get — are a downside. By the yearend, the sugar test could cost just Rs 2, take about 10 seconds and draw far less blood than the regular …
NEW DELHI, 24 JUNE: Urban India seems to be in the grip of an epidemic of non-communicable diseases with a latest government survey revealing alarming trends of one in every seven people suspected to be suffering from hypertension and one in nine from diabetes. The screening of almost 75 lakh …
Under its health systems project, the Tamil Nadu government has earmarked Rs 158 crore to enhance infrastructure facilities for early detection and treatment, and awareness creation on non-communicable diseases during the current financial year. The state government would provide a special focus on non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular and …
Escalating costs of commonly used drugs across the country has consumers complaining about health care slowly but surely becoming unaffordable. With costs of drugs used by heart patients, diabetics and those used by persons with high blood pressure and cholesterol levels registering a upward trend, drug market watchers state that …
The world health statistics 2012 report, released by the World Health Organisation on Thursday, focuses on the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) across the world. The report says that one in three adults worldwide has high blood pressure, which is directly responsible for a majority of deaths from strokes …
Changmey health assistant Karma Wangdi has an old patient of his to see in the evening. His patient Sangpo, 58 from Kharmey under Shongphu gewog in Trashigang has been bed-ridden for almost a year following a stroke that left one side of his chest and an arm paralysed. He had …
Exposure to nitrogen oxides in air causes increased risk of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in African-American women, a new study has revealed. Researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Centre (SEC) at Boston University assessed the risks of incident hypertension and diabetes associated with exposure to nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate …
Mumbai: One in every five Indian adults living in urban cities suffers not only from hypertension but also diabetes. In Maharashtra, one in three persons is struck by the twin epidemic. These are some of the highlights of India’s largest clinic-based survey to assess the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension. …
This atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control documents the magnitude of the problem, using global cardiovascular mortality and morbidity data. It demonstrates the inequities in access to protection, exposure to risk, and access to care as the cause of major inequalities between countries and populations in the occurrence and …
A comprehensive strategy for the prevention and control of NCDs must integrate public health actions to minimize risk factor exposure at the level of the population and reduce risk at the level of individuals at high risk. Such a combination of the population approach and the high risk approach is …
Lifestyle-related diseases are now killing more Indians than the infectious ones. India’s disease pattern has undergone a major shift over the past decade, says the World Health Organisation (WHO). The latest WHO data paints a worrying picture. At present, out of every 10 deaths in India, eight are caused by …
The government will screen five crore people from across the country for hyper-tension and diabetes. Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that these lifestyle diseases pose a huge health risk. Inaugurating a camp to screen slum-dwellers in Delhi for the lifestyle diseases, Mr Azad said,
Skinny and visibly weak, 39- year-old Rajkumar Haribhajan Patil had been suffering from contractions in the chest, and feeling panicky and restless for the past five years. In January 2010, he suffered severe palpitations and was rushed to a private clinic in Warud, in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district. Doctors diagnosed him …
Rapid urbanisation of rural India is steadily pushing the common man’s aspiration levels. Increase in stress and forced lifestyle changes have offered the most conducive base for the rise and rise of hypertension, say doctors and researchers. Achieving a clear perspective on the country’s health, particularly its rural part, is …
Researchers and policy-makers around the world stress on reducing salt intake to control hypertension because its key triggers— stress and faulty lifestyle—are difficult to control. A human body removes extra salt through the kidney. When its intake is excessive, the kidney fails to perform its job and salt starts circulating …
Money matters and no one knows it better than Murlidhar Dhurve, a 55-yearold farmer in Maharashtra suffering from hypertension for almost four years now. “I sustained chest injuries in an accident four years ago. It was then that doctors at the hospital said I was also suffering from high blood …
It was once associated with the rich and urban. Today, hypertension is fast spreading in rural India. This is a cause for concern because hypertension, if not checked, can lead to heart and kidney diseases. Healthcare facilities are already poor in villages, where nearly three-fourths of Indians live. For the …
