obesity

Nov 10, 2021

Obesity is one of the significant global health challenges, having a severe socio-economic impact.  It is basically an imbalance in calories consumed versus calories expended. Over the past two to three decades, it has grown to be a global epidemic and impacting people across age and geographic regions, which ...

Jan 13, 2021

Obesity today is a global crisis; the number of cases is on a continuous rise. As per the WHO,  “during the years 1975 to 2016, the prevalence of overweight or obese children and adolescents aged 5–19 years increased more than four-fold from 4% to 18% globally”. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years ...

Jul 15, 2020

The global healthcare system over the past few decades has transformed exponentially. Today we are living twice as long as our ancestors have lived before. Infrastructure development, technological advancements (such as accurate diagnosis and lesser medical errors), public-private partnerships in healthcare, availa...

Feb 21, 2020

The Middle-East and North-Africa region (MENA), which encompasses some of the world’s wealthiest economies, extends unparalleled opportunities to multinational corporations with expertise in medical devices. There is a conspicuous disparity in the economic prowess across the countries, but most of them have shown r...

Jan 29, 2020

The 21st century has been a remarkable century for humankind, as a lot of innovation, research and development has taken place in the field of healthcare, due to which we have been able to increase the overall lifespan of the human beings.  However, the central question is, are we able to increase the healt...

Aug 31, 2018

NICE Rejects Gilead Sciences’ Yescarta on Cost Concerns The United Kingdom’s government-funded health service isn’t being so nice to Gilead Sciences’ CAR-T blood cancer treatment Yescarta. The country’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said the therapy is too expensive for th...

Nov 15, 2017

One of the top five risks for human health includes poor air quality, while the others are blood pressure, smoking tobacco, diabetes, and obesity. The poor air quality has contributed to around 8% of deaths around the world, according to a 2015 statistic and long-term exposure has created health hazard risks such as...