Disability burden highest in diabetics
Across the world, India included, even as longevity has increased during the period 1990 to 2013, the number of years both men and women live with disease and disability has…
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High blood pressure linked to memory loss
Published in The Hindu on August 25, 2009 Studies done on a small number of people have shown that uncontrolled hypertension (high blood pressure) can cause memory loss in people…
A vaccine boost to India’s polio fight
Published in The Hindu on November 29, 2015 After nearly five polio-free years, and with the launch of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) injection in the national immunisation programme tomorrow…
