Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 24 A community survey of a village in central Kerala has returned a prevalence estimate of 14.6 per cent for type-2 diabetes, one of the highest prevalence rates reported in any Indian State.

Diabetic Association of Bangladesh has taken initiative to bring 50 percent diabetic patients of the country under the treatment of the Association's health service by 2020.

This was informed at a press conference organised by the Association at the BIRDEM conference room in the city yesterday.

An early warning system in the making to prevent diabetes with over 45 million diabetics in the country, India is called the diabetes capital of the world. Doctors advise eating healthy and exercising for an hour daily to keep obesity at bay

Federal regulators on Friday approved a potential blockbuster diabetes drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca.

The Food and Drug Administration said it approved the drug Onglyza to reduce blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes, which affects 24 million people in the United States.

A panel of health experts laid out a plan on Wednesday for vaccinating certain people first in the likely event that not enough swine flu vaccine will be available to immunize every American in time for the expected surge of cases this fall and winter.

Bhutan has joined the global map of countries affected by the pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus, initially known as swine flu, with four Bhutanese having tested positive for the flu, of whom two were detected within the country.

The two cases in Bhutan were confirmed on Monday in a three-year-old girl and a 38-year-old woman, both residents of Thimphu but from different families.

Diabetic donors

Indian population shows established risk factors of cardiovascular disease about 10 years earlier compared to western population. A recent study has found that young people in the age-group of 30 to 39 years show the exponential increase of risk for heart disease and diabetes.