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55 per cent people above 60 years suffer from chronic disease: Survey
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Shivani Kale
UPDATED ON JAN 07, 2021 12:34 PM IST
According to a report, around 40 per cent have some form of disability and 20 per cent suffer from mental health issues. Also, 27 per cent of this population group, which translates to roughly 35 million people, have multi-morbidities.
Real-time observation helpful in Stem cell for vascular diseases: Study
Seoul | By Asian News International | Posted by Shivani Kale
UPDATED ON DEC 21, 2020 10:25 AM IST
A study has found out that Stem cell treatment for vascular diseases can be predicted through real time observation.
Central team to visit Andhra Pradesh to investigate unknown disease
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Nilavro Ghosh
PUBLISHED ON DEC 07, 2020 07:31 PM IST
People afflicted with the mysterious disease suddenly fell unconscious after suffering from fits and nausea. It started in the One-Town area of Eluru and most of the victims were in the 20-30 age group while there were about 45 children below the age of 12 years.
Study suggests patients receiving low dose steroid at increased risk of cardiovascular disease
Washington [US] | By Asian News International | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
UPDATED ON DEC 04, 2020 08:46 PM IST
While high doses of steroids are known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, the impact of lower doses is unknown. A study suggests that even low doses of glucocorticoid may increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
Study reveals Covid-19 infection rates low in people with rheumatic diseases
Washington [US] | By Asian News International | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
UPDATED ON NOV 07, 2020 04:20 PM IST
A new study shows that the Covid-19 infection incidence has been low in people with rheumatic diseases, and most of those infected experience a mild course of illness.
Study focuses on new insights into a potential target for autoimmune disease
Washington [US] | By Asian News International | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
UPDATED ON OCT 27, 2020 04:09 PM IST
New findings from a multi-institutional team suggest that targeting the molecule DEL-1 could be an effective way to treat conditions where taming an inflammatory or autoimmune response is desired.
Forgotten diseases hit poorest billion
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON SEP 16, 2020 10:30 AM IST
These conditions account for over a third of the burden of disease among the poorest, including almost 800,000 deaths annually among those aged under 40 years, and killing more people than HIV, tuberculosis and maternal deaths combined.
Tripura villagers say Covid-19 an urban disease, shun door-to-door survey
Hindustan Times, Agartala | By Priyanka Deb Barman| Edited by Sabir Hussain
PUBLISHED ON JUL 28, 2020 07:36 PM IST
Authorities have so far failed to convince the villagers to take part in the door-to-door survey.
Amid pandemic, vector-borne diseases worry Kerala as monsoon breaks
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | By Ramesh Babu| Edited by Sabir Hussain
PUBLISHED ON JUN 01, 2020 06:33 PM IST
The monsoon brings in a lot of diseases like dengue, leptospirosis, H1N1, chikungunya and other ailments in Kerala.
The disease travels east
Hindustan Times | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAY 17, 2020 07:02 PM IST
With the return of migrants, states with weak health infra are now seeing a spurt
Without clean water, fighting diseases is a pipe dream
UPDATED ON MAR 22, 2020 08:54 AM IST
As the number of coronavirus cases detected in India rises, health professionals have suggested frequent hand-washing as a precautionary measure. But getting people to do this may not be easy as many households across the country do not have adequate hand-washing facilities, according to the National Family Health Survey (2015-16).
Here’s what you can do to keep colorectal cancer at bay
By By Dr. Ashok Kumar Vaid
UPDATED ON APR 01, 2020 08:24 AM IST
Expert talks about the risk factors of this disease that is among the top 10 cancers in India.
Should the State pay for treatment of rare diseases?
By Shyel Trehan
PUBLISHED ON FEB 14, 2020 06:19 PM IST
Treatments for rare diseases are often not developed, because pharma companies aren’t able to recover research and development costs, and when treatments are developed, they are extremely expensive
10 kids die of unknown disease in Udhampur
Hindustan Times, Jammu | By Ravi Krishnan Khajuria
UPDATED ON JAN 18, 2020 11:32 PM IST
Dogra informed that the disease has not been diagnosed as yet and a high-level team of experts will reach Udhampur on Sunday to explore the cause and suggest remedies.
India’s immunisation drive: Battling diseases, ensuring a healthy future
By Harsh Vardhan
UPDATED ON DEC 24, 2019 07:52 PM IST
The government aimed to increase the immunisation coverage of children to 90%. The result was heartening
High burden of hypertension in Punjab: PGIMER for developing of district level plan for prevention of disease
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
PUBLISHED ON NOV 26, 2019 12:41 AM IST
The unadjusted prevalence of hypertension in Punjab is 35.7% (men 41%, women 25.4%) against the prevalence in India which is 25.3%
6 infants die of unknown diseases in Odisha’s Malkangiri in less than 1 month
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | By Debabrata Mohanty
UPDATED ON NOV 11, 2019 02:02 AM IST
The CDMO, however, ruled out Japanese Encephalitis or Acute Encephalitis Syndrome that resulted in the death of 103 children in the district three years ago.
Insomnia symptoms linked to cardiovascular diseases
Asian News International | By Asian News International, Washington D.c.
UPDATED ON NOV 07, 2019 02:36 PM IST
Less or troubled sleep can lead to stroke, heart attack or other cerebrovascular or cardiovascular diseases claims a new study.
Brain strokes not an ‘elderly people’s disease’, hitting those below 45 increasingly
Press Trust of India | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON OCT 24, 2019 05:04 PM IST
The Indian Council for Medical Research estimates one person suffers a stroke every three seconds in the country and a death is reported every three minutes.
New technique can track down causes of rare genetic diseases
Press Trust of India | By Press Trust of India, Los Angeles
UPDATED ON OCT 13, 2019 06:02 PM IST
For the new technology, the researchers, including those from Scripps Research Institute in the US, applied the fact that each person inherited two copies of every gene, or alleles - one from the mother and another from the father.
Self-silencing linked to heightened risk of stroke, cardiovascular diseases
Washington D.C. | By Asian News International
UPDATED ON SEP 25, 2019 10:21 AM IST
Although self-silencing has been linked to worse mental and self-reported physical health in women, it has not been previously examined in relation to women’s cardiovascular health.
India to use Artifical Intelligence in TB care, sets deadline to end disease by 2025
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Rhythma Kaul
UPDATED ON AUG 30, 2019 08:49 PM IST
The Central TB Division of the health ministry on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence to explore the application of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technology in its fight against the disease.
Mosquito-borne diseases a big global concern
Hindustan Times | By HTC
UPDATED ON AUG 30, 2019 05:25 PM IST
Mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and chickungunya pose a great threat to more than half of the world’s population. In 2007, malaria alone caused over 435,000 deaths in the world, while due to this deadly disease more than a thousand people lost their lives in India in the last four-and-a-half years. Read about how these diseases spread and what species of mosquitoes transmit them.
Waterborne diseases kill four children in UP
AGRA | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUL 25, 2019 05:56 AM IST
In the wee hours of Tuesday, siblings Lucky (5) and Laxmi (7), hailing from Anand Nagar locality of Firozabad, had died during treatment.
Bihar orders survey of areas affected by encephalitis
Hindustan Times, New Delhi/ Patna | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUN 19, 2019 10:36 AM IST
A government survey will be undertaken at the Muzaffarpur blocks from where 60-70% of the AES cases have been reported, said Bihar’s chief secretary Deepak Kumar.
Cause of AES that has killed over 100 children in Bihar remains unknown
Hindustan Times, Patna | By Arun Kumar
UPDATED ON JUN 18, 2019 07:48 AM IST
AES cases in Bihar’s litchi-cultivation region were misdiagnosed as Japanese encephalitis (JE) till late 1990s since the symptoms and the seasonal outbreak of the two diseases are similar.
Maha’s two-month card: 17 outbreaks of waterborne diseases
Pune | By Nozia Sayyed
PUBLISHED ON JUN 02, 2019 10:40 AM IST
The drought-like conditions in the state prompted the department to initiate a pre-monsoon drive and identify cases of waterborne diseases which are largely suspected to break-out in areas with poor portable drinking water.
Drug-resistant diseases as big a threat as climate change: UN
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Sanchita Sharma
PUBLISHED ON APR 30, 2019 07:38 AM IST
Antimicrobial (including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungal and antiprotozoal) agents are critical to fight diseases in humans, animals and plants, but misuse and overuse is making an increasing number of them ineffective.
Oral infections in childhood may increase risk of cardiovascular diseases in adulthood
Asian News International | By Asian News International, Washington D.c.
UPDATED ON APR 30, 2019 10:31 AM IST
Periodontitis in particular has been studied extensively, and currently, it is considered an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic vascular diseases.
Study finds why women get autoimmune diseases far more often than men
Asian News International | By Asian News International, Washington D.c.
UPDATED ON APR 21, 2019 01:12 PM IST
A research conducted on mice discovered that having too much molecular switch called VGLL3, which regulates immune response genes in skin cells, lead to autoimmune diseases.