Apart from focussing on lifestyle ailments, the report also highlighted on the shortage of trained staff in MCD and government hospitals

Visakhapatnam: Underfed children are not the only ones who are malnourished.

PATNA: Blame it on urban lifestyle, intake of junk food and lack of physical activities, obesity in children is increasing with each passing day.

Lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and diabetes are no longer just urban phenomena.

Patients reaching hospitals at a later stage a major reason for this, says a contributor to the global study

Obesity levels in India have more than doubled in children and tripled in adults over the past three decades, according to a new study that health experts say underscores India's twin challenges of

Thiruvananthapuram: If you thought you are safe indoors, here comes the shocker.

It was found that those in the 20-30 age group suffered from hypertension because of irregular sleeping pattern, untimely food habits and eating junk food.

The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built-up environment of cities instead of taller trees, research has found.