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Conrad Sangma urges doctors for collective approach to healthcare in Megha
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Shillong (Meghalaya) [India], July 25 (NewsVoir): With the rising burden of non-communicable Diseases in the North-east Region and Meghalaya (Global Burden of Disease 2016), the Public Health Foundation of with the support of Ministry of DONER organised specialised Training Programmes for
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AXA, PHFI announce partnership to reduce burden on NCDs
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3 (NewsVoir): India is currently faced with the dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), causing damaging effects to the health and development of the country.
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Yoga helps against non-communicable diseases: WHO
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): Routine physical activity is central to life-long health and wellbeing.
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Undiagnosed hypertension one of leading risk factors for deaths
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): Non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes have overtaken communicable diseases as the leading causes of mortality in urban areas, as per a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
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Yoga, Ayurveda: Key to wholesome wellness
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 31 (ANI): 61 percent of the deaths in India in the age group of 30 to 70 are due to non-communicable diseases such as heart disorders, diabetes, and cancer, according to a WHO report published in September 2017.
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Mentoring Frontline Health Workers as the Champions of NCD Prevention
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 20 (ANI-NewsVoir): Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for 60 percent of deaths in India each year. According to a WHO report, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, and diabetes constitute 82 percent of all NCD deaths globally.
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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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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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