NEW DELHI: Sales growth of diabetes medicines has accelerated the fastest among all drugs sold in the country as pharma companies pushed their products to tap over 50 million people suffering from the lifestyle disease in India, making it the single largest home for diabetics in the world.

Oral anti-diabetes segment grew 29.7% for the nine-month period ended August 2010 over the year ago period

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) Thursday suspended manufacturing and import of the anti-diabetic drug Rosiglitazone.

The US FDA too had recently restricted its use after data suggested continued use of rosiglitazone (Avandia) could increase the risk of cardiovascular problems.

Mumbai: A Union health ministry committee on Thursday decided to ban widely prescribed diabetes pill, rosiglitazone (marketed as Avandia), with immediate effect all over India.

Bangalore: All of 10 years and diagnosed with diabetes? In a worrying trend, Bangalore doctors are seeing more and more youngsters with Type 2 diabetes.

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Silver Jubilee year will mark a series of programmes
Institute's graduation day will be held on September 30

Health Minister to inaugurate the Silver Jubilee Medical Exhibition

In a taste of things to come, food scientists say they have cooked up a way of using nanotechnology to make low-fat or fat-free foods just as appetizing and satisfying as their full-fat fellows.

The implications could be significant in combating the spread of health problems such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

However, experts say nanotechnology's future in food could be thwarted be

The family planning motto of