Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 31: By 2050, one out of every five Indians will be over 60. That single fact flips the usual story of India being a “young country” on its head. A Shift Nobody Saw Coming For years, people talked about India’s youth—median age around 28, an unstoppable workforce everyone admired. Now, if…
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 30: Walk into any district hospital in eastern Uttar Pradesh before lunchtime, ask a doctor how many patients they’ve seen, and you’ll probably be shocked by the answer. The truth is, in much of rural India, one government doctor still cares for tens of thousands of people. Sure, the country’s health…
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New Delhi [India], July 27: Across the world, healthcare is steadily evolving from a model centered on treating disease to one focused on preserving health, preventing illness, and optimizing quality of life. Among the clinicians contributing to this evolving conversation in India is Dr. Pruthvi Vaity, Medical Director of HealRx Aesthetics and Laser Clinic and…
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 28: When you don’t have much to work with and the stakes are high, you start thinking differently. That’s basically how healthcare innovation works in India. Instead of copying expensive Western solutions, people here create original fixes—sometimes in makeshift garages, sometimes in sweaty government hospitals, sometimes inside big company labs where…
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 25: Ten years ago, if you were trying to sell health insurance door-to-door in a small Indian town, you’d mostly hear: “We’ve never fallen sick badly enough to need it.” People talked as if real illness was something distant—something that happened to someone else’s family. That’s not so true anymore. Sure,…
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Thane (Maharashtra) [India], July 20: India’s healthcare system has been a fragmented, ad-hoc system for decades. A patient buys health insurance from one company, gets their blood test done at another lab that has no connection with the policy, consults with a doctor who has their reports at a completely different place, and then follows…
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 7: AI isn’t just a futuristic idea anymore—it’s here, woven into daily life whether you notice it or not. Netflix lines up your next show, Siri chimes in with the weather, and honestly, nowhere is AI making a bigger impact than in healthcare. It’s not the showy kind of change, but…
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New Delhi [India], July 01: There’s a word most people use for everything they take in a capsule form: supplement. Iron supplement. Vitamin D supplement. Omega-3 supplement. The word has become a catch-all and that’s exactly where the confusion starts. What a supplement actually is A supplement is corrective. It is designed to treat a…
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New Delhi [India], June 30: If you have been a keen observer of the latest trends in the world of aesthetics, there is a good chance that you might have heard of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU). This non-invasive anti-ageing treatment has become a rage in the beauty world and among celebrities for its skin tightening, facial transformation, and…
New Delhi [India], June 30: We all love the monsoon. We eagerly wait for it as it brings much-needed relief from the scorching summer heat with rain and a cool breeze. The rainy season is all about getting drenched in the rain, eating your favourite snacks, and drinking hot tea while watching the rain from…