Health

Climate-linked health risks in India: 1 in 3 children underweight, 1 in 7 women deliver outside hospitals
Rs 5 gutka, Rs 10 beedi—lakhs in medical bills: Centre taxes machines fuelling India’s cancer crisis

Interview: Teens are ruining their skin. Dr Jenny Mathew tells what they should do
Chennai study reveals stigma, risk factors driving tuberculosis among trans women
What is Auramine O, banned industrial dye found in roasted chickpeas?
Respiratory viruses drive early surge in seasonal fevers in Tamil Nadu
Your brain develops through five stages, and adulthood starts at 32—not 25
Teens in heavily polluted Delhi are twice as likely to be obese as peers in southern cities
How Bengaluru’s government hospital gave fresh life to two-year-old Filipina
When guests recline in sunshine with IV lines: What happens when weddings turn clinical?
Taste trumps nutrition: How Indian adolescents choose what to eat
One twin drowning in blood, the other starving, Chennai hospital’s precise timing saves two fragile lives
Behind India’s low WHO numbers: The violence women don’t report
Fortis performs Karnataka’s first ever robot-assisted deceased adult donor kidney transplant
In Hyderabad, college students consume junk food thrice a week, fully aware of the risks
Interview: How viral skincare advice is reshaping dermatology in India’s semi-urban districts
India’s new tuberculosis vaccine for adolescents, adults set for market launch
Why even educated men are falling for footpath ‘jadi-booti’ cures for sexual health
Interview | AI strengthens, not replaces traditional systems, Dr Sharon Baisil
Uranium in Bihar groundwater found in breast milk, but experts say breastfeeding is safer
Hyderabad couple perform Rs 7,000 piles surgery; 17-year-old patient dies weeks later
After Coldrif, October testing reports reveal two more cough syrups failed quality checks in Tamil Nadu
In Telangana’s Nalgonda, ICMR finds when mothers carry low fat, children carry stunted growth
How vegetables, fish, poultry and milk may be driving your antibiotic resistance
Dakshin Health Summit flags explosion of irrational steroid combinations in skin creams
Interview: Why do children go bald? Dr Kavish Chouhan answers
Half of Hyderabad’s elderly battle hypertension as rice-heavy diets fuel obesity crisis: ICMR study

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