India is one of almost 100 countries participating in a global drive to raise awareness of hypertension. May Measurement Month (MMM) was billed as “one of the biggest public screening exercises the world’s ever seen.” Jointly led by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) and the World Hypertension League (WHL), MMM expected an outreach of …
This year, on August 8, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the World Economic Forum convenes a meeting of ASEAN countries, allowing senior decision-makers from a range of sectors to “facilitate greater collaboration between industry, government and civil society, and to work on shaping the brightest …
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A newly developed online “crystal ball” purports to predict a person’s risk of developing illnesses such as heart disease. A user can input lifestyle and metabolic measuremenets such as height, weight and daily exercise levels. The “crystal ball” then takes the information and uses it to predict the likelihood of future illnesses and a range …
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The obesity epidemic is accepted far and wide as laying the groundwork for a major global health crisis in the near future. Obesity tends to be identified with wealthy countries, such as the United States. However, it also has a pronounced effect on the developing world too, where 115 million people suffer from obesity-related health …
Heart conditions are on the rise in India. Over the last few decades, lifestyles have changed and become more sedentary as a result of industrialisation and the rapid growth of the IT industry. Consequently, surgeries such as angioplasties – which involves the widening of an artery or vein to clear blockages using coronary stents – …
Held hostage by potential heart attacks, the disparities in the cost of stents Read More »
India may be considered the pharmacy of the world in terms of drug production, but it imports nearly 80% of its medical devices. Barriers to entry being typically lower than other countries and this makes India a huge market for foreign product sales. Now, there are calls for India to begin creating home grown products. …
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