GURGAON: The harsh and dry summer is taking a toll on the health of Gurgaonites with hospitals reporting spurt in cases of gastroenteritis, dehydration and heat stroke.

Indians are eating out more often now, as many as eight times a month: report

PANAJI: Doctors across the state are reporting a surge of heat-related complications in patients with diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.

Finally here is a sure-shot-method of measuring a child’s progress towards obesity.

With doctors warning of a rise in the number of children being brought in with adult lifestyle diseases – including obesity, diabetes and hypertension – a multi-centre, cross-sectional study done on 10,842 children in five cities – Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune and Raipur – has now suggested healthy cut-off values of waist circumference for screening Metabolic Syndrome in Indian children.

Lifestyle interventions such as weight loss and exercise reduce risk of death from cardiovascular diseases in people at risk of diabetes, a new study published in Lancet has suggested.

Many research studies have shown that lifestyle interventions, such as exercise programmes or weight loss in people with impaired glucose tolerance (those at high risk of diabetes), can prevent progression to overt Type 2 diabetes.

With Holi just around the corner, doctors have begun warning people against chemical-laden colours available in the market.

Pune: Thirty-five-year old Subhash woke up one morning with intense abdominal pain. He thought it could be just a cramp or a result of indigestion. But the pain kept getting worse.

One in every 10 adults in India suffers from chronic kidney disease (CKD), and at any given point, nearly five lakh patients are in need of life-long dialysis or transplant, according to Sanjay K.

Elderly people with hypertension, diabetes and high protein in urine, are always at risk of renal diseases.

Not only has the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) failed to check the rising levels of noise pollution but it has also not booked any individual or organisation for violating noise p