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Festival cheer rings diabetes alarm for Indians

IT’S FESTIVAL season in India, with the celebrations providing a perfect opportunity for family outings, late-night parties and customary feasting on sweets. But health...

Sleep-deprived teens ‘in riskier behaviour’

THE TWO-THIRDS of US teenagers who get less than eight hours of sleep on school nights are more likely to smoke, drink and fight,...

Childless men more likely to die of heart disease

A DECADE-LONG study of 135,000 men found that those who did not have children had a higher risk of dying from heart disease than...

More overweight Indians go for obesity surgery, say doctors

THE LEADER of India’s main opposition party went under the knife this week to help him lose weight, throwing the spotlight on increasing use...

Diabetes ‘massive challenge’ as cases hit 366 million

THE NUMBER of people living with diabetes has soared to 366 million, and the disease kills one person every seven seconds, posing a “massive...

Weight Watchers works, scientific study finds

OVERWEIGHT patients told by their doctors to go to Weight Watchers lose around twice as much weight as people receiving standard weight loss care...

New breast cancer gene ‘may help predict risk’

SCREENING for mutations in a gene known as CHEK2 may help determine a woman’s odds of breast cancer if the disease runs in her...

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