Scientists find new anti-diabetic drug from plant source, call it non-toxic, safe

Chalcone significantly inhibits the rise of blood glucose and brings back the glucose levels to normal much earlier than commercial anti-diabetic …

Online food products ‘too sweet’

While sweet taste was mentioned in 11 per cent of product reviews, saltiness was rarely mentioned

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 …

Increasing protein, dairy intake may help cut diabetes burden: Study

A new study has linked food preferences of individuals to prevalence of diabetes in various states of India

Residual pandemic: After effects of COVID-19 pervasive in India, thousands living with new ailments

Around 51 per cent of those who had milder forms of the disease also developed long COVID

WHO approves 2 new COVID-19 treatments

‘Baricitinib’ has been approved by WHO to be used with corticosteroids; synthetic antibody treatment ‘sotrovimab’ has …

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

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

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sweet Victory For Diabetics

Carbohydrate-based sweeteners available in the market are not good for diabetics. Recently, 15 students from IIT Madras tweaked lactobacilli used …

Study offers potential diagnostic & therapeutic tools for fatty-liver-induced diabetes

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Type 2 diabetes has been increasing rapidly in India

This diabetes drug can prevent cardiovascular, kidney diseases: Study

Dulaglutide reduced heart attacks and strokes by 12%, decreased risks of kidney failure by a third

Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science

Washing process has been shown to rinse up to 20% of the microplastics from uncooked rice

India’s diabetes epidemic just got more grim; Lancet report reveals why

High prevalence of diabetes & lack of infrastructure in rural India could accelerate obesity, prediabetes epidemic, notes study

100 years of insulin use: How it was discovered and where we stand today

Insulin treated its first patient in 1922, before which, those suffering from type I diabetes were rarely expected to live longer than a year or …

Fenugreek and onions are good for diabetic heart

The fibre-rich fenugreek seeds and sulfur compound-rich onion are now understood to possess significant sugar-lowering as well as lipid-lowering …