Dakshin Dialogues

Dakshin Health Summit: Regional language social media content is transforming healthcare
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: Does oil make your hair grow? Read what experts say

Interview: Drug discovery and global partnerships — why India can’t remain a market
Dr Sivaranjani’s 8 year battle against misleading ORS firms and the role of social media
At Dakshin Health Summit 2025, experts discuss what happens when AI enters the aesthetic treatment

The Rs 10-30 lakh bubble: What young doctors do for Insta fame
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: ₹30 lakh Instagram docs and banned Pakistan creams
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: Inflammaging to GLP-1 drugs — Dermatologists decode science of anti-ageing
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: Do you know the hidden link between obesity, insulin resistance, and hair loss?
Snapchat dysmorphia and Korean glass skin: Gen Z dermatologist reveals mental health crisis behind filtered beauty
The GLP-1 revolution: Obesity drugs set to dominate next 50 years of medicine
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: Are protein powders causing hair loss? Experts raise red flag
Instagram ‘skin doctors’ vs real dermatologists: Dakshin Health Summit exposes digital quackery crisis
‘Skin cycling is real anti-ageing hack, not fancy cosmetics’: Derms at Dakshin Health Summit
Your mood mirrors your meal: Experts reveal anti-inflammatory diet secrets at Dakshin Health Summit
Dakshin Health Summit: Are anti-aging pills worth the hype or just expensive urine?
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: How to spot a quack dermatologist?
‘Inflammaging’: Experts warn of silent epidemic driving premature aging at Dakshin Health Summit
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: Is milk truly inflammatory?
‘Do no harm’: Dermatologists urge empathy and ethics to guide innovation in aesthetic medicine
Why India’s young are going bald too soon – and what dermatologists want you to know
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: South First launches year-long health campaign on diabetes and obesity
False cures, lasting scars: Experts urge urgent legislation to protect patients from quackery
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: An attempt to put science at the centre of healthcare discussions, research at the centre of public wellness
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: India needs advocacy, better laws and increased awareness on quackery, says Dr Rajetha Damisetty
Hyderabad all set to host South First’s second edition of Dakshin Health Summit
Dakshin Health Summit 2025: Tackling quacks, steroid abuse, social media disinformation, and aesthetic care
South First presents Dakshin Health Summit-2025: In Hyderabad, on 9 November
‘AI enablers will mine 70 years of government data’: Telangana IT Minister
Kerala’s rise in ease of doing business: What fuels historic leap?

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