Is UN giving in to industry?
UN adopts resolution to fight chronic lifestyle diseases, without targets or commitments
Over 20 million deaths, 300 million life years lost due to COVID-19, estimates WHO
Health progress for various indicators slowed down since 2015; burden of non-communicable diseases increased since 2000
Hidden industry hand
Attempts are on to derail UN initiative to declare noncommunicable diseases a global priority
India is 20 yrs behind in managing non-communicable diseases, shows survey
Pilot assessment in Shimla and Udaipur shows high prevalence of hypertension, diabetes and poor health infrastructure
Diabetes on the rise in India
White paper at national summit emphasises capacity building, training of healthcare workers
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
Eat at your own risk
Junk food is bad for health. Its definition tells its inner story—food that is high on calories and saturated fat but low on nutrition.
Not so young at heart
Young hearts are more stressed out than they used to be. They bear much more pressure these days just to beat. Heart disease is no more an …
Non communicable diseases causing more premature deaths in India now
World Bank report says heart diseases have replaced TB and sepsis as two of the five leading causes of deaths between 1990 and 2010
Time to wake up to threat of NCDs
As the UN begins its meeting to devise strategies to tackle NCDs, Indian public health activists say it was a wake-up call for the health …
Non-communicable diseases: The unrecognised public health threat
Health is rarely the topic of discussion at the UN general assembly. But starting September 19, the UN began a high-level meeting to debate a …
Countries commit to tackling non-communicable diseases
A UN declaration, which was signed by several heads of states, asks food manufacturers to reduce salt, free sugars and saturated and industrially …
Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa — why this is wrong
Financial links between corporations and academic institutions are well known to lead to conflicts of interest
From hypertension to cancers, alarm bells ringing in India’s tribal belts
Tribal people are facing triple burden of diseases
India won’t meet UN targets to reduce premature mortality from major non-communicable diseases: ICMR-NCDIR
NCDs account for 66 per cent of all deaths in India, of which 22 per cent were premature deaths in 2019
Yeast shows the way between nature and nurture
Odisha carries a huge burden of snakebite deaths — but it is avoidable
Right education, access to antivenoms and effective governance need of the hour
Global Diabetes Compact to increase access to testing, treatment: WHO
About half of all adults with type 2 diabetes remain undiagnosed
Who is cooking our recipe books?
A subtle marketing drive is changing our food habits and we do not even know it
Blueprint to tackle non-communicable diseases released
It has a list of good practices and gives structure to an otherwise unregulated field
Healthcare takes biggest hit as conflict intensifies in Iraq
Polio and other communicable diseases pose threat
World Health Assembly: health issues of women, children and elderly in focus
Health facilities available for older people are unequally distributed across the world
You just got fatter
Lateral Thoughts: Will WHO norms on artificial sweeteners help consumers?
Guidelines are just beginning of process of purging these toxins from food chain
Low and middle income countries have seen greatest rise in obese children between 1990 and 2014: Report
At least 41 million children around the world obese or overweight, it says