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India needs to prioritize prevention and wellness to check NCDs
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 7 (ANI): On the eve of the World Health Day, apex healthcare industry body NATHEALTH has made a clarion call to prioritize prevention and wellness to check growing burden of non-communicable disease (NCD) in the country.
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Chronic non-communicable diseases on the rise in urban India
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 10 (ANI): Practo, the leading healthcare platform, recently released the second edition of its Annual Healthcare Map of India, which highlights some of the key consumer health concerns.
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New report by George Institute urges mHealth community to go beyond '
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 8 (ANI-NewsVoir): Scaling up pilot projects in the area of technology-enabled health care delivery requires a concerted effort that involves going beyond the quick-fixes and working towards a sustainable health solution that can help tackle the rising burden of communi
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It's 'No Tobacco Day' in Punjab today
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Nov. 1 (ANI): To reduce prevalence of tobacco and nicotine use and to prevent the spread of non-communicable disease, the Government of Punjab will observe Tuesday as 'No Tobacco Day'.
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South-East Asian countries pledge againsts non-communicable diseases
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 6 (ANI): South-East Asian countries recently adopted the 'Colombo declaration' to manage the growing epidemic of non-communicable diseases that kill 8.5 million people annually.
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Catch them young to keep them healthy, says PRB report
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 22 (ANI-Newsvoir): "Promoting healthy behaviours among young people is key to curbing a growing epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)", say Toshiko Kaneda, Senior Research Associate, and Reshma Naik, a senior policy analyst, the authors of a new report by the
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