When Canadian model Elly Mayday was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, it wasn’t the end of her modelling career. Far from it. In fact, Mayday used her modelling career as a platform, courageously sharing her experience with cancer as she battled the disease. Mayday passed away on March 1st this year. In remembering her story, we …
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When it comes to smoking, the damage is not to the smoker’s health alone. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than a third of people worldwide are exposed to passive smoking. Exposure to this secondhand smoke is responsible for approximately 600,000 deaths every year. It is good news then that Delhi is cracking …
India faces sharply rising numbers of diabetes cases. For many people the disease is poorly managed due to a lack of knowledge – with wide-reaching health implications. One of these could be increased Alzheimer’s rates, as suggested by a new study. The study, carried out by the University of Southern California (USC), found that Alzheimer’s …
Mental health disorders affect roughly ten percent of Indians. 56 million Indians suffer from depression alone and 38 million experience anxiety disorders. Despite this, there is an enormous shortage of mental healthcare professionals across the country and much stigma is attached to the condition, dissuading many from coming forward and seeking treatment. “There is a …
A new study has established a relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the kind of sector of work among urban Indians. The research, published in the journal Economics and Human Biology, suggests a positive correlation between a high BMI – an indicator of obesity – and labour market activity. Put simply, the study could …
It is life beyond the camera, vanity and paparazzi that success stories are made of. Emilia Clarke – star of popular US series Game of Thrones – who has excelled in her role of Daenerys Targaryen, has revealed to The New Yorker how she not only won battles and vanquished kingdoms on the sets of …
India has a bad track record dealing with “invisible illnesses”. Those who suffer from mental health issues are still stigmatised and in more cases than not, cannot receive the healthcare they vitally need due to a lack of available mental health services. This situation is not only true for mental illness. While physical disabilities are …
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“It was something that I had never expected, I was really shocked,” Nandita Venkatesan said as she recalled finding out she had become re-infected with tuberculosis (TB) in 2013. It was six years after she was first diagnosed with the disease in 2007, some months before her eighteenth birthday. In a candid conversation profiled in …
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Economic growth coincides with decreased rates of stunting and wasting – but may also bring with it increased rates of obesity. This is according to a recent study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology which analyses how the burden of malnutrition changes as countries undergo economic development. The study analysed these findings in …
India faces a diabetes burden of untold magnitude in the coming year. There is a drastic need for new means of treatment. Fortunately, hope may be on the horizon. Researchers at the University of Utah in the US have developed a potential new therapy that targets dysfunctional immune cells in patients suffering from diabetes and …
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