Mortality by degrees

Ignorance is no bliss

Coronary heart disease is more prevalent among the poorly educated rural Indians than the well-educated

Powder benefit

Indians consume almost 10 grams of salt per day: Study

Almost 1.65 million deaths every year are due to heart disease caused by consuming more than 5 grams of salt per day.

Tricky thin, booze

It pays to be optimistic

Carry on drinking

Shattering a myth

Coffee drinking does not lead to heart diseases

A little big secret

Stanching the bleeding heart

Carrying a particular set of genes puts you on higher risk of heart diseases: study

The study is based on analysis of genomic DNA samples from over 750 individuals from Indian population

Treated, but partly

The Indian government has heavily slashed the prices of coronary stents. Will patients with heart conditions benefit from it?

Bombay gasps

Heart disease, stroke among top killers in India

The prevalence of heart disease, stroke increased by over 50% in the past 25 years, with the highest in Kerala, Punjab & Tamil Nadu, …

More Indians were diagnosed with hypertension than diabetes in 2017

Latest data from the National Health Profile 2017 confirms a previous study which said that hypertension is a bigger concern than diabetes in India

Heart-warming discovery

छह वर्ष तक के बच्चों के लिए क्या-क्या हैं पोषक आहार

पर्याप्त मात्रा में पौष्टिक आहार के आभाव में बच्चों का शारीरिक विकास प्रभावित होता है इसके साथ-साथ मानसिक एवं सामाजिक विकास भी ठीक तरह ...

27 साल में 92 फीसदी बढ़े हार्ट फेल के मामले, दूसरे नंबर पर भारत

1990 से 2017 के बीच हार्ट फेलियर के मरीजों की संख्या में जो वृद्धि हुई है उसमें से करीब 29.9 फीसदी चीन और 16.6 फीसदी भारत ...

Blueprint to tackle non-communicable diseases released

It has a list of good practices and gives structure to an otherwise unregulated field

महिलाओं में 21 फीसदी तक हृदय रोग बढ़ाने के लिए जिम्मेवार है मानसिक तनाव: अध्ययन

अध्ययन में 1991 से 2015 तक प्रतिभागियों पर नजर रखी गई, ताकि महिलाओं में कैंसर, हृदय रोग और ऑस्टियोपोरोसिस को रोकने के बेहतर तरीकों ...

New mobile app may help in addressing heart disease in rural areas

A group of Indian and Australian scientists has developed and tested a mobile application-based system that promises to help doctors and health …

South Africa faces highest risk of deaths from non-communicable diseases

South Africans are more likely to die from NCDs even though the country is threatened by a prolific HIV epidemic 

Now, dial a motorbike ambulance in case of a heart attack in Delhi

The idea is to reach with medical help much faster, given the high density traffic in the city where movement of four-wheeler ambulances becomes …

India is moving at jet speed, people should be able to move too

1 in 4 men and every second woman in India are physically inactive; can Indian construct cities which are creators of health, environment and equity?

Why we should test everyone's genes to predict disease

If a test could reveal the diseases you and your family might be more likely to get, would you get it?