India accounts for the largest number of people

Anita Joshua

NEW DELHI: The Government is planning to make diabetes and hypertension check-ups mandatory for rural India. This was disclosed here on Sunday by Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad while addressing the SAARC Diabetes Conference.
Formulating scheme

FAT in the liver is the new marker for obesity-related complications such as diabetes, heart diseases and strokes. People trying to reduce belly fat to avoid these diseases will have to rethink their lifestyle. The finding is good news for metabolic scientists who have hypothesized for long that liver fat is the most important metabolic disruptor of the body but there were

Who were the first Indians? Were they the chocolate-hued Dravidian southerners or the dark-skinned tribals that inhabit East India and the Andaman islands? Was the relatively fair Indo-European population of the North the original settler? Or did the Mongoloid-featured Tibetan-Burmans beat the rest to it? When and how did the pioneers reach India? What routes did they take?

How can countries that gave the world finger-licking good food

Breathing polluted air for even two hours can boost blood pressure, potentially raising the risk of cardiovascular disease in those exposed to smog, a new study suggests.

In Talks With GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer & Novartis
Mohit Bhalla ET NOW

WOCKHARDT, a troubled drugmaker with huge debts, is in talks with GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Novartis to sign a deal that would give marketing and research rights of its diabetes drugs under development to one of the global companies, two persons familiar with the development said.

Ramya Kannan

CHENNAI: Here is some sobering news for the country: Diabetes is no longer a disease of the affluent urban residents. Clearly it is creeping up on rural and low-income groups as well.

The new H1N1 swine flu is estimated to have infected about 800,000 people in New York City in the spring, a top U.S. health official said on Sunday, citing a study due to be released later this week.