42 episodes
Healthwise HT Smartcast
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Healthwise is a weekly podcast that brings you up to speed with the top of the mind Health, science and environment issues. You'll hear experts who'll help you better understand policy. So that you can make better choices, healthwise.
This is a Hindustan Times production, brought to you be HT Smartcast.
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Why Do People With Hearing Disabilities Still Lack Aids?
Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit in humans today. As per WHO estimates in India, there are approximately 63 million people, who are suffering from Significant Auditory Impairment. In this episode, Deepti Ahuja, head of content at HT Smartcast, speaks to Avinash Pawar, CEO at WSA - Wonderful Sound for All. Pawar says that despite the stigma surrounding hearing aids, they are trying to change the narrative through awareness campaigns such as #HearTheChange initiative.
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How CGM technology Can Help Empower You to Monitor Diabetes
Uncover the future of diabetes care with Prof. Ramzi Ajjan and Dr. Prashanth Subramanian. As diabetes cases surge by 44% in India, exceeding 101 million, technology emerges as a game-changer. Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) offers a lifeline, simplifying management through lifestyle modifications and regular monitoring. Join us to explore how CGM is revolutionizing disease management, and empowering individuals to lead healthier lives.
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40: Coronavirus mutation in the UK: what does it mean for us?
Officials in Britain sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus circulating in England. In this episode, @sanchx talks to Dr. Harsh Mahajan, Founder & Chief Radiologist, Mahajan Imaging about what does the mutation mean for us?
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39: High BP? Lowering risk of COVID complications
Adding to the anxiety of living our life in the new normal is leading to lifestyle related disorders such as insomnia, obesity, and high BP. Tune in to this episode as Dr. Ravi Kasliwal in conversation shares tips on how to deal with problems related to lifestyle changes and how best we can cope up with things like blood pressure and high cholesterol with unlimited activity and social restrictions.
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38: Will COVID affect two decades of malaria decline?
The Oxford University team is now set to begin phase-3 human trials of a promising shot against malaria, which will be tested on 4,8000 children in Africa in early 2021. Tune in to this episode as @sanchx answers 'Will COVID affect two decades of malaria decline?'
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37: Where do Covid-19 treatments stand?
Most Covid-19 treatments fall under three broad categories, antivirals that prevent the virus from multiplying, immune-modulators that regulate the immune response, and combinations that use multiple mechanisms of action. In this episode of Healthwise, Sanchita Sharma, Health & Science editor at HT will tell where do Covid-19 treatments stand?