High on health, low on popularity

The Phalsa fruit is available for only a few weeks in a year. Yet, it's sweet and sour taste will leave you asking for more

For a good night's sleep

Most urban Indians dread bedtime. Sleep disorders ensure that 93 per cent of the people living in cities don't sleep well or worse, are not able …

Tuberculosis India-2014

Tuberculosis is no longer a disease afflicting only the poor. Its thrives on deprived/distorted lifestyle and on the offshoots of the so-called …

Foetal tissue can cure terminal diseases

Tissue taken from aborted foetuses and implanted into the bodies of patients suffering from several incurable diseases has shown encouraging results

Sweet smell of sugar

Researchers have developed a painless technique for diabetes patients to regulate their glucose levels

Potatoes to the rescue

Genetically engineered potatoes can help prevent diabetes and tackle diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis

World Diabetes Day: Family key for its detection & prevention

The theme for World Diabetes Day 2018 and 2019 is family and diabetes

Sweet poison?

Small is risky

Diabetes-free potatoes

Fatal Flavour?

Artificial sweeteners: the new threat to your health

Good news for diabetics

Boost to blood filters

Calcium-absorbing drug can lower kidney damage in diabetics

A shot a month

India develops advanced insulin for diabetics

Strip tease

Using diabetes strips? It’s time for a rethink

Ghanaians are eating more fast food: The who and the why

More men consumed fast food than women because men do not often cook or lack basic cooking skills; consumption was also a display of social status&…

Not even a glimmer of hope for health worldwide, warns report

Epidemic of chronic diseases, social inequalities and COVID-19 will worsen the future of global health 

Diagnostic test for pre-diabetic condition feasible: Study

Scientists from Pune-based National Chemicals Laboratory have found that in pre-diabetes condition, blood has abundance of glucose bound to units …

Lollipops, fizz, chips

Twenty-five years ago, small shops would sell foods produced by local home-food processors, but that important part of the informal economy seems …

Jamun: A healthy way to welcome the monsoon rains

The jamun fruit has a host of therapeutic properties and the best time to eat it is during the monsoon, when the tree is fruiting

Rural South Africa has a high burden of undiagnosed non-communicable diseases: Study

A health-screening programme in KwaZulu-Natal showed that most seniors, especially women were living with a chronic health condition

Deep look into eyes can tell if you are diabetic

Scientists captured and compared infrared images of iris, the region that corresponds to the health of pancreas (causal gland for diabetes) and …

Bacterial study gives fresh insights on diabetes and fibrosis

The results offer a better understanding of how carbohydrates are taken into cells

From hypertension to cancers, alarm bells ringing in India’s tribal belts

Tribal people are facing triple burden of diseases

Simply put: Diseased India