It’s that time of the year when festivities have just concluded and most people are already looking forward to the year-end break. The good news first: Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda said the World Health Organization has recognised India’s “remarkable” progress in tuberculosis control, with a 17.7% decline in TB incidence from 2015 to 2023, and Prime Minister Modi said …
Sudden death of some youth after COVID-19 have been reported but at present there is no sufficient evidence to confirm the cause of such deaths, said the Health Ministry in Lok Sabha on Friday adding that to ascertain the facts regarding the apprehension of rising cases of cardiac arrest after the pandemic, the Indian Council of Medical Research is conducting …
For a State which takes immense pride in consistently coming at the top in the health index rankings of NITI Aayog every year, the findings of the ICMR-INDIAB study, which puts Kerala right on top with the worst overall indicators for long-term morbidity and mortality due to non-communicable diseases, has undoubtedly come a cropper. Kerala has known since the mid …
The final results of a long-term, cross-sectional, population-based study across 31 States, Metabolic non-communicable disease health report of India, by the Indian Council of Medical Research and India Diabetes paint a bleak picture of Kerala, which figures amongst the top three States with the worst overall indicators. The sample size was close to 4,000 The study throws up little surprises …
The addition of many new diseases or disease-groups and new health initiatives have prompted the Central government to widen and rename its programme for control and prevention of non-communicable diseases. In its communication, the Ministry said that since there has been an addition of diseases to the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke, …
The non-communicable diseases can be of long duration, and they may be a result of a combination of different factors including genetic, physiological, environmental, and behavioral Developing countries account for a high burden of non-communicable diseases and are home to a higher number of premature deaths from NCDs. While in the last decade India has introduced a few measures to …