Topic: Asia
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Mobile technologies will be increasingly deployed to enable people in Asia to monitor and manage their health, with the market expected to hit $7 billion by 2017, an industry official said.In parts of Europe and the United States, ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Mobile technologies will be increasingly deployed to enable people in Asia to monitor and manage their health, with the market expected to hit $7 billion by 2017, an industry official said.In parts of Europe and the United States, ...
(Reuters) - One in 10 adults will have diabetes by 2030, posing a huge challenge to healthcare systems around the world, according to a report on Monday.The number of people living with the disease is expected to soar to 552 million by ...
India is facing a twin epidemic of diabetes and high blood pressure, doctors have warned, after the results of a countrywide study suggested that one in five people had both conditions.The two-year study of nearly 16,000 adults in eight states found that ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - 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 experts warn that the festivities, coupled with genetic predisposition and lifestyle changes brought about by ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A large trial comparing treatments for typhoid has backed the use of gatifloxacin, an antibiotic launched by Bristol Myers Squibb in the United States but withdrawn amid worries about side effects.The trial, conducted in Kathmandu, Nepal, analyzed gatifloxacin, which ...
Indian housewife Sujata Budarapu was shocked when she was told that her two sons were on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes."It had never even occurred to me that this could happen. I had heard that outside India this happens to ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with diabetes in the United States and several other countries do not get effective treatment to control their disease, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, and health insurance, not personal wealth, plays a big role in determining which diabetics ...
The statistics concerning the global diabetes prevalence worldwide indicates that it has reached epidemic proportions. According to the World Health Organization, the increase in global diabetes prevalence worldwide between the years 2000 and 2030 arranged by region, are as follows: Only urgent ...
NVO) said it will commit up to $100 million to expand its Beijing R&D center. Novo Nordisk says the growth will make its center the largest wholly-owned foreign R&D operation in China. The first multinational pharma to open a China R&D facility, ...
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