Rare diseases may affect only a small percentage of India’s population – but because the population numbers more than 1.3 billion, this still adds up to a large number of people. Seven crore (70 million) Indians suffer from over 14,000 identified rare diseases. This huge burden of rare, often complex and difficult to diagnose diseases …
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Late diagnoses could lead to 76,000 breast cancer deaths a year by 2020, claims a new study. Breast cancer: Common and deadly The study, published in the Journal of Business Research, says a lack of awareness surrounding the disease is causing late diagnoses. This increases the risk that, when detected, the cancer is too …
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In India, when it comes to the rising number of cancer deaths in recent years, it seems poorer women are at greater risk. Two thirds of female cancer patients are from low socio-economic backgrounds. Indian women account for around 30 percent of the country’s cancer burden. The most common cancers in women are breast cancer, …
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Malaria can be carried by a number of mosquito species, the most common of which is aedes aegypti. However, more species exist that can adapt to differing conditions, allowing the reach of the disease to expand. Worryingly, the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR) has detected the presence of two mosquito species in and around …
Thyroid disorders are far more prevalent than had previously been assumed claims a report published by global diagnostic chain SRL Diagnostics. India lacks an effective national policy to tackle the scope of the issue, the authors say. The actual figures vary depending on the study. The high level of variation within the results is largely …
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States have run out of HIV medications with no sign of replenishment, despite the recent HIV/AIDS bill. In May, an HIV/AIDS bill was launched by the Health Ministry that was hailed as a historic accomplishment in the fight for human rights for those infected with the condition. The bill was however called out by many …
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India has over 1.3 billion people, nearly 20 percent of the world’s population. Despite this, in genetic databases only 0.2 percent of genomes sequenced are Indian. Genome sequencing databanks have been dominated by European genes since the concept came to fruition. In 2009, 96 percent of genomes sequenced were of European ancestry. As of 2017, …
Rural populations are estimated to make up 70 percent of the total population in India. Despite this only three percent of doctors operate out of rural locations. This creates the foundations of a highly unequal healthcare system in which those in rural areas often fall through the gaps in terms of access. Many in India …
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Diabetes is no longer just a disease of the rich. This is according to a recent study in The Lancet, which says that diabetics are becoming increasingly more prevalent among the urban poor. Using data sourced from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Department of Health Research of the Union Health Ministry, …
A disease that seemingly all but disappeared since World War II, is returning at an alarming rate. It was associated with Assam but is now being diagnosed across many parts of North India. Scrub typhus, an exotic disease spread by mites, had disappeared from the public eye for many decades. The disease is typically …
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