
As winter settles in, our habits shift to cosy meals, heavy clothes and lazier evenings, but unfortunately, so does the viral season. December often b...

At a time when medical advancements have transformed HIV from a fatal infection into a manageable chronic condition, myths and stigma still prevent co...

Vitamin C has a direct link with skin's thickness and its renewal. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Otago, Christchurch, a...

Heart disease in women often looks nothing like the dramatic, chest-clutching scenes portrayed on screen. In reality, symptoms are quieter, subtler an...

Over the past few years, a familiar scene has been unfolding across the country: teenagers returning from school tapping their phones to order instant...

Over 2 lakh cases of acute respiratory illness (ARI) between 2022 and 2024 were reported in Delhi, new government data shows.India’s biggest cities ar...

The average out-of-pocket expenditure for an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycle in India is crushing for most families—about Rs 2.3 lakh in private ho...

Nearly half of the packaged foods listed on India’s quick commerce and online grocery platforms are identified as junk, high in fat, sugar, salt (HFSS...

Persistent chest tightness and breathing discomfort, often brushed off as stress, acidity or seasonal asthma, may be early warning signs of lung cance...

The World Health Organisation (WHO), in its first global guidelines on Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) therapies for obesity, has said these drugs mus...

With dermal fillers becoming one of India’s fastest-growing aesthetic procedures, experts are sounding the alarm about unsafe practices, untrained inj...

Tattoos may be a form of self-expression for millions of Indians, but the inks used to etch those designs into the skin could pose hidden cancer risks...

Heart disease rarely arrives with drama. It brews quietly, shaped by small daily choices that slowly, relentlessly wear down the cardiovascular system...

Dengue, known for intense flu-like symptoms, crushing fatigue and body aches, reached record global levels in 2024 and researchers have attributed its...

New research confirms HPV vaccine can prevent cervical cancer, the second-most common type of cancer in Indian women.The study, by the UK-government-f...

Not just air pollution, even the type of food you eat determines your risk of developing lung cancer. A new study reveals that carbohydrates (one of t...

Air pollution is linked with so many lung diseases, including COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Besides genetic factors that could contrib...

India’s apex drug regulator has directed hospitals across the country not to discriminate against medical devices lacking certification from the US Fo...

Two recent suicides, a 16-year-old boy in Delhi and a 9-year-old girl in Jaipur have once again exposed how children's cries for help often go unheard...

New studies are changing what we thought we knew about fertility and ageing. A recent report on Daijiworld points out that men actually face a steady ...

A major international study has found that more than 80 percent of Indian patients carry multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) – or disease causing de...

A new paper in The Lancet has sounded the alarm on the explosive rise of ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption in India, drawing a stark parallel wit...

Donanemab—one of the two breakthrough therapies hailed globally for showing promising results in treating Alzheimer’s disease—has been approved by Ind...

When Mahima Chaudhry revealed she had no symptoms before her breast cancer diagnosis, it struck a nerve with women everywhere. How can something so se...

Dr. Sivaranjani Santosh, Hyderabad-based paediatrician, has again sounded the alarm after spotting ORSL, a sugary electrolyte drink, still being sold ...

As Delhi-NCR grapples with a continued spell of hazardous air quality, doctors across specialties are reporting a surge in complaints of fatigue, leth...

Most of us think of pollution as something that irritates the lungs, triggers a cough or worsens asthma. But the damage doesn’t stop in the chest; it ...

India recorded the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases globally in 2024, according to the World Health Organisation’s Global Tuberculosis Report...

The future of healthcare in India is changing fast, and the change is happening deep inside our bodies, at the level of our genes. Thanks to major pro...

Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind the weight-loss injection Wegovy, plans to intensify its efforts in India, positioning the drug...
Where should be the burial of the pilgrims martyred in the Saudi Arabia bus accident?