Obesity medicine: In a significant breakthrough, scientists are developing a cream to reduce body weight, DailyMail.com reported. The latest discovery in obesity medicine will be available in less invasive creams and patches, known as transdermal drug delivery systems. The new technology could be leveraged to help millions of people uneasy about needles benefit from these…
New Delhi: The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), a body under the health ministry, has named five lifesaving drugs as having shown serious side effects. The drugs are Metronidazole, an antibiotic; Luliconazole, an antifungal; Dalteparin, used for cancer treatment; diabetics drug Gliclazide and Tramadol, a painkiller. During a recently conducted analysis of adverse drug reactions (ADRs),…
For years there has been a push to recognise obesity as a disease in its own right, and therefore something that needs to be treated in and of itself, rather than just as a risk factor for other things, such as diabetes, heart disease, strokes and some cancers. And there is indeed much evidence that…
Schoolchildren at a stall in Vijayawada. The Indian Nutrition Rating system allows foods high in fat, salt and sugar, and ultra processed foods, such as biscuits, flaunt two stars on the packet when they might otherwise have four warning signals. Similarly, a soft drink that should have a high warning in sugar instead gets two…
In India, 21.8 crore men and 23.1 crore women, totalling up to 44.9 crore or nearly a third of the country’s projected population, will be overweight or obese by 2050, predicted a study published in Lancet. One of the major reasons that is driving the obesity epidemic in the country is the surge in consumption…
India could have over 440 million obese and overweight people by 2050, the second highest in the world after China, while the US, Brazil and Nigeria will rank third, fourth and fifth, respectively. The study expects that nearly 60 per cent of adults and a third of all children across the globe will be overweight…
