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Vicious cycle

Cost of treating hypertension itself leads to stress

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US sets mercury emission limits

India still far from setting standards for toxic pollutants from power plants

Moneymakers

Is UN giving in to industry?

UN adopts resolution to fight chronic lifestyle diseases, without targets or commitments

Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free

Elderly & lonely

India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …

Hidden industry hand

Attempts are on to derail UN initiative to declare noncommunicable diseases a global priority

The link between blood pressure and suicides

India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

Wake up and smell the air

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Court revoking ban on cough remedy worries health activists

They say continuing availability of the drug poses health risk

Every breath you take

Pollutants in the air damage more than the lungs, warn health experts

One in four Indians above 30 risks dying of lifestyle diseases: WHO

Report shows India has no multi-pronged plan to reduce NCDs or a proper monitoring and surveillance system

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