Health

‘Buddy, I’ll be looking out for you’: Keralam puts students at heart of a new health network
Hyderabad researchers fed rats vitamin D-free diets for 20 weeks, found increased markers of heart cell death
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and a 3-year-old Chennai child’s fight for a new liver

Beyond pilgrimage and tourist trails: New data shows healthcare driving crores of domestic visitor trips
Body fights flu and COVID, but the price it pays may be a Parkinson’s risk
Keralam plans law to regulate private hospital treatment costs
For years, ‘VRK Diet’ promised a way out of everything from cancer to diabetes. Now, its claims are under legal scrutiny
Hyderabad’s cholesterol, sugar woes meet Bengaluru’s vitamin deficiency problem
What is resistant BP, the condition one in five hypertension patients may have in India
Rice alone isn’t the problem: How a refined-carb-heavy diet can raise metabolic and heart risks
You look healthy, your BMI is normal, but your waist may be telling a different story about your heart
The things we blame on age: When getting older becomes an explanation for everything
As advanced cardiac care reaches more Indians, the financial burden of treating heart disease becomes harder to ignore
When patented drugs become unaffordable, government can intervene: Kerala High Court
Bought for Rs 86, billed at Rs 4,528? Karnataka seeks new rules to make medicine pricing in private hospitals fairer
FSSAI drops two-phase food warnings, brings red warning for one nutrient, but a one-year wait raises questions
Semaglutide linked to lower psychiatric hospitalisation in bipolar disorder, but experts urge caution
Super El Niño: Karnataka may lose 1,870 lives, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala 1,680 each
Fake drugs in the market? CDSCO flags blood pressure drug Telma AM ‘spurious’, 220 medicine batches fail tests
Love your tea/coffee scalding hot? The habit might be tripling your risk of oesophageal cancer
Dirtier the air, the faster kidney function slipped, reveals study conducted in Chennai and Delhi
Goitre down, thyroid autoimmunity up: What four decades of iodised salt show in Indian children
India has no new anaemia figures. The ICMR survey meant to provide them is still being analysed
FSSAI moves to ban ‘analogue paneer’, orders products to drop ‘paneer’ label from analogue item
In India, generic competition slashes semaglutide prices after patent expiry, sales jump nearly sevenfold
AIIMS traces how cost, confusion and neighbours’ advice delay kidney ailment diagnosis in Andhra Pradesh
Western Ghats’ deforestation, climate change may have taken monkey fever beyond Karnataka
Karnataka launches salt reduction plan, targets 30% cut in salt intake by 2030

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Actor Prakash Raj addressing the demonstration at Manaveeyam Vidhi in Thiruvananthapuram. (Video grab) — Anti-SIR rage blunts BJP-ruled T’puram Corporation move to nip Manaveeyam protest

the march came days after police detained several protesters during a demonstration in Bengaluru on Monday. — Tricolours, slogans and dissent: Bengaluru protesters march days after police detentions

Abhijeet Dipke, Neha Bora — ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ march: Dipke detained in Delhi, AISA says Neha Bora held alone in police custody

Seva Dal condemned the appointment of Dushyant Kumar Gautam as Sikkim's Governor. — Seva Dal takes out candlelight march seeking justice for Ankita Bhandari

DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi joined students and young activists protesting the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Egmore. — ‘BJP benefits from DMK-TVK rivalry’: Chennai youth urge united fight against SIR

CM Vijay in Coimbatore. — Heavy rain foils Vijay’s Keralam visit; Stalin takes a swipe at CM

Dr Sudha Yadav was sworn in as Karnataka's Governor on Friday, 16 October. — From Kargil War widow to Karnataka Governor: The political journey of Dr Sudha Yadav

Madras HC — Madras HC directs Tamil Nadu police to grant permission for RSS marches

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Women alighting from a bus labelled as Priyadarshini bus in Thiruvananthapuram. — Private bus operators threaten indefinite strike from 3 November over ‘Priyadarshini’ scheme; Transport minister responds

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Gade Sai Krishna — Andhra Pradesh HC hands over Gade Sai Krishna case to CBI, orders compensation to his mother

Sajeev Joseph MLA handing over the ashes to Devika’s father, Prakashan. — Japan train accident victim Devika’s ashes handed over to family in Kannur

Four Keralites killed, over 30 injured as AC bus collides with lorry in Karnataka’s Mysuru district

YSRCP leaders' vehicles were attacked with stones and sticks, vandalizing and setting them on fire. — Tension on first day of local body polls nominations: Attacks and firing in air in Annamayya district