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Diagnosing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries with high diabetes burden, like India, has become easy thanks to the revised 2013 WHO guidelines. Any…
That the Union Health Ministry takes critical decisions affecting a large number of people without any scientific basis does not portend well for public health in India. Neither the ban…
The Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) on Friday recommended revoking the ban on pioglitazone — an oral anti-diabetic drug which was banned on June 18. But the DTAB, which was…
A three-year study (2005-2008) undertaken on 204 subjects who had impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), a pre-diabetic stage, and who were on pioglitazone drug alone did not find any case of…
There is growing evidence that the ban the Union Health Ministry imposed on June 18 on pioglitazone — a widely used anti-diabetes oral drug — was taken with undue haste…
Published in The Hindu on March 8, 2012 For the first time in the country, 14,000 pregnant women will be screened for gestational diabetes (GDM), and equal number of women…
Published in The Hindu on February 2, 2012 It may not be providing any nutritional benefits, but added sugar does plenty of harm. There is a great body of…
Published in The Hindu on August 26, 2009 Universal screening of pregnant women for gestational diabetes (GDM) has got a shot in the arm. Women will no longer have to…
