This sensor may help detect early stages of diabetes

Indian scientists develop sensor to detect low levels of RBP4 biomarker

Potato against diabetes

Spicy cure

Heart matters

A new drug that improves the survival of diabetics with heart problems

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 …

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

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

Health in news on April 17

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around health

US $13 million will be spent annually to treat obesity in India by 2025

The World Obesity Federation says that investment in obesity treatment will be effective in reducing mortality due to non-communicable diseases

Scientists in India develop biosensor to detect diabetes-related complications

Till date, there has been very little effort to quantify levels of Methylglyoxal in the blood or food products we consume

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 …

Healthy veggies

A vegetarian diet can improve the functioning of lungs and also control blood sugar in diabetics

Diabetes on the rise in India

White paper at national summit emphasises capacity building, training of healthcare workers

It's all in the food

Good nutrition matters even in the womb

Diabetes and summer-borns

Bytes

Food guide for diabetics

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

Mobile health system can help regulate hypertension, diabetes: study

Basic parameters such as blood sugar and cholesterol need to be fed into the mHealth system, called mWellcare

A fruit to treat diabetes

Elandha vada is a traditional nutritional snack that is fast disappearing from our food basket

Why being able to distinguish between a good and a bad fat matters so much

Despite the increase in cardiovascular disease in the developing world, not enough is being been done to improve public awareness of the benefits …

Kerala imposes 14.5 per cent fat tax on branded restaurants selling junk food

A 2016 study published in the International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries found high incidence of Type-2 diabetes among the …