A recent study published in The Lancet reveals a worrying trend: the risk of dying from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has increased in India, unlike the global decline observed in most countries. NCDs such as heart disease, chronic respiratory illnesses, and cancers pose growing challenges, particularly affecting Indian women over 40 and men over 55. Between […]
Here are the top health stories of the day: NEET PG 2025: Supreme Court postpones hearing by 2 weeks The Supreme Court of India has postponed the hearing of the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2025 examination-related case hearing. The top court bench was supposed to take up all the pending matters related to NEET […]
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi Employees State Insurance Hospital (IG ESI Hospital Jhilmil) has announced vacancies for the Senior Resident posts in different departments in this medical institute. ESI is a statutory body constituted under an Act of Parliament (ESI Act, 1948) and works under the administrative control of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, […]
Srinagar: Demanding a stipend hike for the MBBS interns in Jammu and Kashmir, the doctors have urged the Chief Minister, Health Minister, and Director of Health Services of Jammu and Kashmir to intervene. Currently, the MBBS interns in the Union Territory receive Rs 12,000 per month as their stipend. Highlighting the “urgent need for a significant […]
Acute myocardial infarction and acute kidney injury are life-threatening conditions caused by ischemia, resulting from reduced or blocked blood flow to organs. Although early restoration of blood flow improves survival, many patients still develop chronic heart or kidney failure. The mechanisms driving this transition from acute tissue injury to chronic dysfunction remain poorly understood, and […]
China: A new study has revealed that AOPT-LTL therapy significantly improves melasma by reducing melanogenesis, inflammation, angiogenesis, mast cell infiltration, and collagen degeneration, likely via inhibition of the SCF/c-KIT signaling pathway. The study, led by Bingrong Zhou and colleagues from the Department of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China, was published […]
Sweden: A new meta-analysis published in Clinical Rheumatology highlights that individuals with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) face a significantly greater burden of metabolic syndrome (MetS) compared with the general population and patients with other inflammatory arthropathies such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The study, conducted by Sara Andreasson and Anna Södergren from the […]
Children and young adults who spend excessive hours glued to screens and electronic devices may have higher risks for cardiometabolic diseases, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and insulin resistance, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. A […]
Exposure to high concentrations of air pollution may worsen Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by accelerating the buildup of toxic proteins in the brain and speeding up cognitive decline. For the first time, post-mortem tissue from people with AD revealed that those who lived in areas with higher concentrations of fine particulate matter in the air even […]
Apollo transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy devices by neurocare group have received FDA clearance for treating adolescents with major depressive disorder (MDD). Major depression affects an estimated 5 million adolescents in the U.S. each year, yet treatment options remain limited. Currently, only two oral antidepressants are FDA-approved for use in this age group, and both […]