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World Health Day 2024: Is India Facing A Growing Non-Communicable Disease...

The latest report indicates significant growth in non-communicable diseases across the nation and says the country is witnessing the fastest rise in cancer cases. A 2023 report states NCDs were...

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School-Based Health Interventions: Addressing Non-Communicable Diseases...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become a global socio-economic strata. While traditionally associated with adulthood, there has been a concerning rise in NCDs among children, posing a significant...

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Common Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) Among Adolescents In India

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) have emerged as one of the biggest health and development challenges of the century. NCDs are non-communicable diseases i.e., they are not passed on from person to...

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Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: How India Is Empowering Medical Officers...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a group of conditions resulting from excess build-up of fat in the liver, often seen in people who are overweight or obese. Left untreated, NAFLD can get...

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Physical Inactivity Can Make 500 Mn People Prone To Noncommunicable Diseases...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published the first-ever global status report on physical activity, highlighting the economic burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) attributable to physical...

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WHO Reveals The True Scale Of Noncommunicable Diseases: Every 2 Seconds,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a new report highlighting the true scale of the threat posed by noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Every year, 17 million premature deaths occur due to...

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Genomics: A New Era Of Evidence-Based Healthcare Management

Healthcare delivery continues to be more reactive than proactive. This means that we usually seek medical help post the onset of clinical symptoms, instead of taking preventive steps to monitor our...

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Type 2 Diabetes Increasing Among Children in India: How Schools Can Help...

Earlier type 2 diabetes was prevalent among adults but now it is witnessed frequently among children.  Poor lifestyle choices and unhealthy eating habits are blamed for the increasing diabetes cases...

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WHO says migrants, refugees in Europe vulnerable to diseases

Migrants and refugees may be susceptible to non-communicable and communicable, as well as chronic diseases due to poverty or change of lifestyle to less physical activity and healthy food, the World...

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Venkaiah Naidu says modern lifestyle diseases turning into killers

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday urged the medical fraternity to campaign against modern day lifestyle as non-communicable diseases (NCD) were turning into killers. Inaugurating the GEM...

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WHO says migrants, refugees in Europe vulnerable to diseases

Migrants and refugees may be susceptible to non-communicable and communicable, as well as chronic diseases due to poverty or change of lifestyle to less physical activity and healthy food, the World...

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Venkaiah Naidu says modern lifestyle diseases turning into killers

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday urged the medical fraternity to campaign against modern day lifestyle as non-communicable diseases (NCD) were turning into killers. Inaugurating the GEM...

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Farhan Akhtar supports campaign to fight non-communicable diseases

Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar is leading Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and Amar Gandhi Foundations’ public health campaign to create awareness about non-communicable diseases. Citing...

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Malnutrition and air pollution leads to shortening lifespan of Indians, says...

India is undergoing a rapid disease transformation. According to the report published by ICMR and The India State-level Disease Burden Initiative that compared health loss caused by different diseases...

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Non-Communicable Diseases & Injuries continue to be the largest killer in India

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2016 data released today reveals that Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Injuries continue to be the main cause of death among people of all age-group in India....

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Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) account for higher number of deaths among...

What do you think leads to higher number of deaths in teenagers in India? Well, if you think it is a communicable disease, then you are wrong. An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) report...

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Yoga can help fight against non-communicable diseases, health minister says

Yoga can contribute to resilience against non-communicable diseases and can be used for preventing and controlling many other lifestyle diseases, Health Minister J.P. Nadda said on Wednesday. ‘Major...

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Diabetes, cancer and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on the rise, says...

‘Promoting healthy behaviours among young people is key to curbing a growing epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)’, say Toshiko Kaneda, Senior Research Associate, and Reshma Naik, a senior...

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Practising yoga will reduce risk of non-communicable diseases: WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday urged people across the world to incorporate yoga in their daily life. It said that such a practice will reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases...

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Dr Harsh Vardhan announces campaigns to beat rampant diseases in India

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Health Minister, announced a slew of government campaigns to tackle major communicable and non-communicable diseases in India. In addition to improving the overall health, these...

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