COVID-19 adverse impacts stronger in people with diabetes: Study

Individuals with type 1, type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 3 times more likely to have a severe illness or require hospitalisation compared to those …

Scientists pave the way for a new therapy for type 2 diabetes

They have found that an enzyme plays a major role in determining the ability of cells to detect and respond to the hormone insulin

India tops global charts for childhood diabetes and deaths

Obesity and poor lifestyle, including sedentary living, could have contributed to the rise

We’re on the hunt for novel ways to assess the risk of type 2 diabetes

How well can miRNA expression analysis perform in identifying prediabetes and full-blown diabetes?

This new protein may help diabetes patients with fractures

Diabetes patients are more susceptible to bone fractures and take longer than usual to heal

WHO approves 2 new COVID-19 treatments

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

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

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

Online food products ‘too sweet’

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

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

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 …

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

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

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 …

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

Residual pandemic: How India is battling long COVID

There is a huge number of people who have defeated COVID-19, but continue to suffer its debilitating long-term effects

Air pollution linked with cardiovascular diseases: Study

Tobacco had the strongest association with heart disease, followed by physical inactivity and low-quality diet

Countries join hands to prevent, control non-communicable diseases

Governments of Ghana and Norway formed the first group to fast-track progress towards reducing NCD deaths by a third

Half of all South Africans are overweight or obese. Warning labels on unhealthy foods help change that

Globally there’s been an increase in the availability and consumption of unhealthy food

Ayurveda: Regulation of this alternate system of medicine is urgently needed on many fronts; here is why

Ayurveda’s popularity has arisen since the pandemic; but many still equate ‘natural’ and ‘traditional’ with ‘…

COVID-19 blow to diabetes care: Africa cases to more than double

Ahead of World Diabetes Day, WHO urged governments to invest in diagnosis, health worker training to prevent surge