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Air pollution and dementia risk

Urban air pollution is a key risk factor in developing dementia claims a study recently published in the BMJ Open. Does this finding suggest a future spike in dementia cases in India’s metropolises? The study may shed some light on why Alzheimer’s disease is becoming more prevalent in India. Two decades ago it was a …

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India’s seniors are lonely and depressed. How do we address this crisis?

Maya Devi is 85-years-old and living with her daughter in the city of Jammu. But she would not be here for long and soon shift to her younger daughter’s house in Delhi, then soon to her other daughter’s house. This is an arrangement worked among her daughters after her son’s death when her daughter-in-law asked …

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Why India should know its multivitamins

Do you consume multivitamins every day? Are you intrigued by the numerous adverts about gaining extra energy in your stressful life? Has your physician, dietician or gym instructor prescribed you multivitamins to improve wellbeing? If yes, this article is meant for you. It’s important to understand the significance of multivitamins before popping that pill. Research …

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How India curbed an outbreak within a month

In May, news reports were released the world over that a disease touted by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of ten potential upcoming large scale epidemic was found in India. The disease, the Nipah virus, is a worrisome prospect. The disease has a seventy percent mortality rate, making the threat to life considerable. …

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More to Swachh Bharat than building toilets?

Swachh Bharat, or Clean India, is typically seen as just an endeavour to place toilets in villages and encourage hand washing. While these things seem like simple measures to improve sanitation, the knock on effect of doing so could have far more wide ranging consequences. Three of seven most common causes of disease and death …

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India’s most common infectious disease

Tuberculosis is now the world’s most deadly infectious disease. Global infection rates are falling, however, India holds the highest number of individuals harbouring the disease. India accounts for 27 percent of the ten million people who developed TB in 2017 according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) 2018 Global TB report. Though the disease is …

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1.5 degrees and what it means for India

A recent UN report has predicted a 1.5 °C temperature rise globally by 2040 – with potentially devastating implications for India. The state of the environment and the health of a nation are closely tied. This is being brought to the forefront of India’s attention currently with ever more evidence arising linking the country’s catastrophic …

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What’s driving obesity in India: Calories or Carbs?

Let us investigate the reasons behind the rise in obesity in India. India has the third highest obesity rate in the world. If this fact isn’t alarming enough, then here are the details. In 1975 1.3percent of our population was obese. In 2014 it rose to 3.7percent and in 2017 it stood at five percent. …

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Vigilance against eradicated and eliminated diseases is vital

India’s recent polio scare has highlighted that maintaining vigilance against the disease is of the utmost importance — even four years after its eradication in the country was declared. The Union Health Ministry confirmed the contamination of a number of batches of vaccines with type-2 poliovirus vaccine in three states: Maharashtra, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh. …

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World Mental Health Day: How India is dealing with its silent crisis

Around 150 million Indians are in need of mental healthcare. This is according to government data, which highlighted the significance mental disorders among the population at 10.6 percent. Depression alone affects 56 million people and anxiety disorders affecting 38 million. When experts convened for the third High-Level United Nations Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) last …

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