A new study found that it was very difficult for those with diabetes who were using insulin pumps to maintain good glucose values when they ate pizza.
Maintaining the balance of gut microbiota is important as an imbalance, also known as dysbiosis, can cause or aggravate different diseases, including but not limited to digestive problems such as inflammatory bowel syndrome, mental health issues like anxiety and depression and menstrual problems.
Dhruv Gupta explains how, as more and more young people fall prey to diabetes, organisaions get affected and how companies can contain the losses due to drop in productivity.
People with type 2 diabetes who took cinnamon supplements had lower fasting plasma glucose levels compared with people who didn't take them new research has found.
In an online chat with Get Ahead readers on November 7 Dr Phulrenu Chauhan from Hinduja Hospital answered queries on control and prevention of diabetes.
'Thirty per cent of the world's deaths in young people, due to heart disease, are encountered by people in India.'
Even as India is fast turning into the diabetes capital of the world, multinational drug companies are busy patenting new-generation diabetes medicines for exclusive marketing rights in the country.
Kejriwal, who has Type-2 diabetes, has been asking for insulin and a video conferencing with his family doctor but his requests are being denied by the jail administration, party spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said in a press conference.
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There is a growing concern amongst the medical community in India that if unchecked, India is likely to have 30 million diabetics by 2015 -- equivalent to diabetics in the rest of the world.
It's important to take breaks, spend time with loved ones and engage in activities like yoga or meditation to help relax and relieve stress.
The life insurance industry does not have a good track record when it comes to passing on tax benefits to policyholders, points out Harsh Roongta.
People who stay awake late are more likely to develop diabetes and metabolic syndrome than early risers, even when they get the same amount of sleep, according to a new study.
Around 7.4 per cent of Indians aged 60 and above are affected by dementia. This number is expected to rise from the current 8.8 million to 17 million by 2036, marking a 97 per cent increase.
Diabetic patients got a respite in Maharashtra and Gujarat when Pranav Agro industries launched its Smart Balance rice, low glycemic index health rice, on Tuesday.
A recent report has suggested that future patent expires in the cardiac and anti-diabetes space would form a good opportunity for smaller firms, given their franchise in these segments.
Dr A Ramachandran, president of the India Diabetes Research Foundation explains why Indians are so vulnerable to diabetes, and recommends some lifestyle modifications to fight diabetes.
The court would continue with the hearing on November 29.
'It's almost like the tissue of the lung has a cancer spreading to it, which is causing scarring and rapidly progresses.'
The United Kingdom extracted USD 64.82 trillion from India over a century of colonialism between 1765 and 1900 and USD 33.8 trillion of this went to the richest 10 per cent -- enough money to carpet London in notes of 50 British pound almost four times over.
Indian pharmaceutical companies are heavily dependent on China to source fermentation-based active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates to manufacture these medicines, but the coronavirus outbreak there has disrupted the supply.
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On average, at least one in three Indians today were pre-diabetic, two in three were pre-hypertensive and one in 10 were depressed, the 4th edition of Apollo Hospitals' flagship Health of Nation Report on World Health Day 2024, said.
M V Hospital for Diabetes & Diabetes Research Centre, one of India's premier centres for diabetic foot research and treatment recently launched India's first online Diabetic Foot Care forum as a part of a multi-level awareness campaign, titled "Foot care for people with diabetes".
A scientific investigation led by an Indian American may aid understanding of how insulin production eventually declines in type II diabetes. It raises the possibility of new types of drugs to prevent the loss of insulin production and to treat type II diabetes.In type II diabetes, which people of Indian origin seem prone to, the hormone insulin does not work effectively to lower blood sugars and the patients' bodies also do not make enough insulin.
rediffGURU Shreya Shah answers diet and nutrition related questions.
'It is not just the US and European opportunity, but it is a huge global opportunity.'
A scientist working at a government research institute funded by the University Grants Commission shares his experience.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system destroys cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone that regulates blood glucose.
'If she manages to throw out people, go for surgical operations, clean up her image, she will be victorious.'
Delhi cabinet minister Atishi and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Sanjeev Jha were present at the protest site.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic presidential candidate, in an op-ed on Saturday, recollected her frequent visit to India as a child, and her mother's mission to cure cancer.
rediffGURU Dr Vinod Kumar, a kidney health specialist at the Aster RV Hospital, Bengaluru, offers advice on how to keep your kidneys healthy and functioning well.
