Editor’s Word on World Tuberculosis Day
March 24, every year is observed as the World Tuberculosis Day. This international observance is aimed at promoting public health awareness on the deadly Tuberculosis epidemic, worldwide, that claims about 1.7 million More...
New finding related to muscle’s glucose balance
From times immemorial, we have known that exercise plays an important role in body’s fitness. It also has protective effects against medical disorders such as diabetes. However, the exact mechanism interplaying More...
Combination drugs for Diabetes and BP
Jaipur, India: Free drug distribution centres in Rajasthan’s government hospitals will soon, make available – combination drugs for diabetes and blood pressure. This would facilitate their treatment for the More...
Novo Nordisk partners with American Cooking Stars
Princeton (USA) – Novo Nordisk, the world leader in diabetes care, is teaming up with American cooking stars Paula Deen and her sons, Bobby and Jamie Deen, to launch Diabetes in a New Light™,a national initiative More...
Countries need to change their mindset to tackle non-communicable diseases: WHO chief
Countries need to change their present mindset to successfully tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, adding that governments will need More...
A promising strategy for Type1 Diabetes cure
Novel strategies for treating patients having type 1 diabetes are being explored. In one of the recent findings, a therapy using stem cells seems to re-educate abnormal immune system cells, allowing the pancreas More...
Obese to beautiful: A desire for few more years of life!
Jill Knapp, weighed 237 pounds before she finally, began her fight against obesity. The journey from being just another overweight to ending up among the top six contestants of the sixteen amazing women at Mrs. More...
“Low fat diet, best” – just a myth!
Nutrition researchers disagree with the popular belief that low fat diets are better and healthier than moderate or high fat diets. To bust the old, low fat diet related food myth, nutrition experts at Harvard School More...
Sleeping less: In genetics?
Living in various sections of the society, belonging to a range of lifestyles existing these days, many of us would have wondered as to how some people manage sleeping less. While for many of us- a seven hour sleep More...
Better medication for newborns and infants with diabetes
Diabetes: a life-long undesirable gift of high blood sugar levels; could affect individuals of any age, including infants and children. It is usually caused by dearth of insulin (a hormone produced by pancreas for More...