Sweetened soft, fruit drinks linked to diabetes regular consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes in African-American women, say researchers from Boston University

A new study adds to arsenic's notoriety as a cause of cancer and favored murder mystery poison by suggesting it also plays a role in diabetes.

People in India may not know much about baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1960) in the US, but this generation has provided the majority of the country's leaders in politics, science, business and the arts. They have been credited with building several institutions, and in some ways, with building contemporary America itself. One of their less well-known achievements was to start the physical fitness revolution. Now they are on the verge of starting a similar revolution: one of mental fitness.

High Sugar Levels Impair One's Ability To Fight Infection: Study Diabetes has now been found to be fuelling India's deadly tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. In fact, according to researchers, it may be to blame for more than 10% of TB cases in India and China.

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BS Reporter / New Delhi July 09, 2008, 0:14 IST Drug price regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has increased the prices of 19 imported insulin-based medicines. The decision is in response to requests made by importers Eli Lilly and Pfizer, who wanted an increase in the prices of specific brands on the grounds that the rupee had depreciated against the dollar, leading to an increase in the import cost. The price revision covers 13 brands of Eli Lilly and six of Pfizer.

Donald G. Mcneil Jr. As the world's population ages, gets richer, smokes more, eats more and drives more, non-communicable diseases will become bigger killers than infectious ones over the next 20 years, the World Health Organisation is reporting.