chronic diseases

Growing up with chronically ailing parents

From a young age, my mother’s slowly failing health has familiarised me up-close with the morbid tapestry of our medical facilities.

Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes: Study

Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, a US study says, which found even low levels raised the chances of developing the chronic disease.

Medicare scare

Medicine cost eats up two-thirds of the money spent by people from their own pockets for health, pushing those with chronic diseases towards poverty, said speakers at a policy dialogue yesterday.

December 8, 2022
December 8, 2022

Growing up with chronically ailing parents

From a young age, my mother’s slowly failing health has familiarised me up-close with the morbid tapestry of our medical facilities.

June 30, 2018
June 30, 2018

Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes: Study

Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, a US study says, which found even low levels raised the chances of developing the chronic disease.

February 28, 2016
February 28, 2016

Medicare scare

Medicine cost eats up two-thirds of the money spent by people from their own pockets for health, pushing those with chronic diseases towards poverty, said speakers at a policy dialogue yesterday.