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How Tamil Nadu is isolating, eliminating chronic ailments using door-to-door screening

Tamil Nadu’s “Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam” (MTM), a scheme that takes health services to the doorsteps of people and which was profiled recently by WHO, may be a step in the right direction in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCD).

The Hindu

When and how to prune bay trees to improve both their shape and health

Every question you've had about pruning bay trees, answered by the garden experts

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Keep the weight off and diabetes stays away as new study shows benefits of slimming

Weight loss, and remission from type 2 diabetes, can prevent or delay the complications of the disease

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Special clinics set up in government hospitals in Kozhikode to address fever cases

According to the data collected by the Health department’s Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, 983 outpatient fever cases and eight inpatient cases were reported in government hospitals in the district on June 13.

The Hindu

Why DaVita returned $250 million to the government during the COVID-19 pandemic

CEO Javier Rodriguez says it would have been like accepting food stamps when you have a stocked pantry.

Fortune

The lesser-known risk factors for heart disease

Most people know that the risk factors for heart disease are high blood pressure, smoking, raised cholesterol and being overweight. However, many people who have a heart attack do not have any of these traditional risk factors.

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Oral Care for Native Health

A new dental clinic takes on tooth decay and diabetes in California’s largest Native American community.

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Expert warns of common disorder half of U.S. population has that can lead to dementia

Although the exact connection between this common disorder and dementia is unclear, one leading expert has described treating it as 'critical' to fighting off the brain destroying disease

Daily Mirror

What is Viking Disease, as researchers find its potential cause?

The disease got its nickname from its prevalance among Northern Europeans

Evening Standard

Does Medicare pay for Alzheimer's drugs? The answer is complicated and changing

There are no drugs or treatments to cure Alzheimer’s disease, but emerging drugs may slow disease progression.

Fortune

Deadly virus now 'highly likely' to hit UK in new climate change warning

A potentially fatal virus that is killing almost half of patients is now 'highly likely' to hit the UK alongside other illness spread by insects, that are 'marching north' because of climate change.

Daily Record

Dengue fever warning to Brits heading off to popular holiday resorts this summer

Brits planning to travel abroad are being warned about the risks of potentially deadly dengue fever - a disease spread by Asian tiger mosquitoes and which has been detected in the likes of Ibiza and southern France

Daily Mirror

Measles and whooping cough outbreaks in South Africa: a sign of low vaccination coverage, experts warn

The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000-2020, childhood vaccination led to the reduction of deaths in children under 5 by 50% to 5.4 million deaths per year. Vaccination currently averts…

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People with any of these 21 health conditions may be due up to £691 each month

There are now 3.3m people claiming PIP with thousands more on Adult Disability Payment.

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Study links inflammatory bowel disease to increased risk of stroke

IBD, which causes chronic inflammation of the intestines, includes Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and unclassified inflammatory bowel disease.

Inverse

“Viking Disease” Might Have Actually Come From This Ancient Human Cousin

New research finds that the genetic origins of Dupuytren's contracture were inherited from Neanderthals.

The Conversation

I suffer from the world's most beautiful disease - and also the most expensive to treat

My name is Antonio and I suffer from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA, for friends). My life expectancy was only a few years when I was born, almost half a century ago. And all because I “got” a rare, neurodegenerative disease, which is among the genetic diseases with the highest associated…

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Districts in Kerala told to ramp up monsoon disease surveillance

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Heavy drinking linked to lower muscle mass – here’s what you need to know

Heavy drinking has long been associated with various health problems, including cirrhosis of the liver, cancer and heart disease. But our latest study has found that these aren’t the only issues that excess drinking can cause. We found that heavy drinkers had lower levels of muscle mass than those who…

The Hindu

Ernakulam has a fourth of State’s dengue cases

Nearly one-fourth of dengue cases reported in the State over the past two weeks are in Ernakulam, indicating the alarming spread of the vector-borne disease in the district.

Manchester Evening News

Coronation Street star shares extra emotion behind on-screen death story amid own heartbreaking personal loss

Jane Hazlegrove has shared how she has been struggling with grief amid the soap's hard-hitting Motor Neurone Disease storyline

The Hindu

IISc. researchers design fluorogenic probe to detect enzyme linked to early stage of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, results in memory loss and compromises cognitive abilities in many people beyond the age of 60

Daily Record

Alzheimer's could be detected by taste and smell long before signs of memory loss

A new research study conducted by UK scientists is looking into a new smell and taste test that could help detect Alzheimer's disease long before its initial symptoms.

Daily Mirror

Barbara Windsor's ex-husband Ronnie Knight - who was infamously jailed for £6m robbery - dies

Barbara Windsor's ex-husband Ronnie Knight, who was jailed for a £6m robbery has died, aged 89 after battling with Parkinson's Disease

Salon

Toxic air requires new social contract

Last week’s hemispheric wildfire smog exposed just how unprepared we are for the climate crisis

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