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• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-23 · rss‘Broad daylight dacoity’, says Supreme Court on overpricing of essential cancer drugs. ‘It is very surprising that the authorities who are supposed to take action on this are silent,’ says Bench
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-23 · rssKarnataka launches action plan to cut salt intake by 30% by 2030. The plan focuses on reducing salt consumption at three levels: households, food consumed outside the home, and processed and packaged foods.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-23 · rssExtra 100 grams of ultra-processed foods daily related with 14% higher risk of heart event: study. Consumption of the energy-dense, high-on-sugar and salt products was also related with a higher chance of metabolic syndrome or diabetes (24%), depression and anxiety (27%), digestive diseases (31%) and high blood pressure (11%), the study found
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-19 · rss71% consumers in Mumbai rarely asked for prescription, survey finds; Maharashtra FDA acted against 880 drug licensees in three months. On prescription checks, 36% of 3,697 Mumbai respondents said chemists never refused to give them medicines without a prescription and another 35% said they did so very rarely
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-20 · rssStudy attempts to find out how India made expensive diabetes medicines affordable. India’s low medication prices are tied to its role as a major pharmaceutical exporter, supported by legislation that prevents ‘patent evergreening’ and enables generic drug manufacturing, says a study by diabetologists
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-20 · rssAn Indian woman phytochemist without parallel. Asima Chatterjee pioneered research on medicinal plants and plant-derived drugs, while breaking barriers for women in Indian science
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-16 · rssCan high prolactin be linked to repeated pregnancy loss or PMOS? For women experiencing recurrent pregnancy loss or difficulty conceiving, prolactin testing is a reasonable part of a comprehensive hormonal evaluation. However, results should be interpreted alongside other parameters. The condition, when properly identified and treated, is one of the more manageable contributors to fertility challe
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-16 · rssReading for pleasure cuts dementia risk, improves wellbeing: Study. The study said reading for enjoyment can bring huge benefits and reading with others, whether it's as part of a book club or a parent reading with their children, can bring even greater rewards
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-16 · rssNutrition, research and patient care.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-13 · rssAugust Krogh’s Nobel winning discovery of oxygen supply to muscles. August Krogh’s research showed how capillaries regulate blood flow to meet tissue oxygen needs
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-14 · rssDiet-exercise combo most effective for lasting weight loss: ICMR-NIN.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-12 · rssMelanoma in India: why the messaging needs to change to catch it early. Melanoma, in India, most commonly presents on the soles of the feet or beneath the nails, sites that are rarely examined and even more rarely associated with cancer. Powerful, personalised treatment tools are now available, but patients often arrive to early for them to be of use. This needs to change
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-12 · rss70% of yearly change in winter pollution in north India explained by western disturbances: Study. Winters with more frequent western disturbances tend to experience lower air pollution levels
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-09 · rssPaying attention to our packaged food.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-10 · rssWomen’s hearts are still being overlooked: this needs to change. For women to own their heart health, it is crucial to be aware of symptoms that may not always be ‘classic’ heart attack symptoms, understand their risk factors, and seek timely medical attention
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-08 · rssWHO report links smoking to infertility, says quitting can make meaningful difference. A study shows that tobacco smoking could lead to 40% higher risk of infertility in women, and lead to semen abnormalities and sexual dysfunction in men
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-08 · rssPost-traumatic mental condition may contribute to heart risk, study finds. A wide range of mental health conditions were considered as possible cardiovascular predictors, and machine learning was used to identify the 15 most important mental health disorder predictors of heart and brain outcomes
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-08 · rssDeaths due to passive smoking in India up 50 pc compared to 1990: Lancet study. Passive smoking is avoidable if smokers take steps to prevent exposing others to tobacco smoke
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-06 · rssGenetics of personality associated with major life outcomes, study finds. The authors wrote, Genetic analyses indicate that personality traits have widespread, potentially causal associations with consequential behaviours and life outcomes
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-06 · rssMore children under 12 in U.S. are being prescribed weight-loss drugs, study finds. Children living in higher-income communities were 55% more likely to be prescribed the medicines, suggesting emerging disparities in access, according to the study
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-09-06 · rssNot all types of dementia cause memory loss: what happens when it strikes early. Behaviour and personality changes, rather than memory loss, can be among the first signs of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which commonly affects people between 45 and 65
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-27 · rssMeta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children. The settlement ⁠was reached during a California federal trial over claims brought by 29 states, averting one of the highest-profile tests yet of allegations that social media companies harmed young users
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-27 · rssUnderstanding the historic $17.1 billion Meta settlement. The settlement came with certain conditions on how Meta should change its safety features on Instagram and Facebook
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-28 · rssMeta’s $18 billion settlement: Can Meta really implement teen controls and screen limits? Many caretakers believe Meta’s child protection measures could help combat social media addiction, but verifying the ages of tech-savvy children is a significant challenge
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-27 · rssFDA approves landmark pancreatic cancer drug that’s shown to improve survival. U.S. health officials have approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that offers a new approach to treating the deadly form of cancer
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-27 · rssChildhood cancer: India has the treatment, but not the reach or the data. The country’s capability when it comes to treating childhood cancer has expanded immensely. The challenge however is, we do not know how may children have cancer, and not every child with cancer is able to reach and afford these treatments
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-27 · rssThe high cost of India’s private health-care boom. The country needs private capital to expand health care, but investment cannot be allowed to shape clinical decisions, pricing and access in ways that make care unaffordable or unnecessarily intensive
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-26 · rssAll you need to know about: scoliosis. Scoliosis treatment centres in the country estimate that around 2-3% of the population could be affected. While in Western countries screening of school children is routine, the same cannot be said of in India
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-26 · rssPsoriasis cases are on the rise, say dermatologists. What are the causes and how do you treat the condition? Psoriasis plaques occur because of an overactive immune system, resulting in faster skin cell growth, leading to skin cells piling up on the surface; new medications are helping patients, however, the rise in non-communicable diseases and exposure to chemicals is causing an increase in case
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-26 · rssAll you need to know about: sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis is believed to be an exaggerated response of the immune system either due to a genetic disposition or due to environmental triggers
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-27 · rssPeripheral inflammation may drive brain damage in rare neurological disorder, finds NIMHANS study. The study demonstrated a clear association between inflammation in the peripheral immune system and neuroinflammation in patients with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-26 · rssTackling Ebola, head on, and other stories. On the Ebola crisis in the DRC, the H1N1 situation in India, eye health, what’s new and what’s missing in the field of genetics, and more
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-24 · rssTaking a leaf out of Amul’s textbook to help rare-disease patients. Just as Amul and the other cooperatives it inspired made India milk-secure and secured the livelihoods of millions of farmers, so too could a patient data collective have an outsized impact on drug discovery for most rare diseases, contributing to the health of many patients who currently have few treatment options
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-21 · rssBrain's white matter may help soften cognitive impacts of gray matter loss: Study. The study is among the first to examine the brain's superficial white matter in a community-based population from a low- and middle-income country
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-20 · rssSouth Asians are missing from global health databases: why this matters and what needs to change. Advances in AI are allowing scientists to mine vast amounts of genomic data to detect disease earlier, predict risk and tailor treatments to individuals. But at the heart of this lies an old, constant problem – the data used to build these tools lack diversity. South Asian scientists now want to build
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-20 · rssShigellosis resurfaces in Keralam; 3-year-old from capital hospitalised. Health officials renew public health warnings, urging people to be cautious about the food and beverages they consume outside their homes, especially during the festival season
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-19 · rssAI systems in smartphones may help detect eye diseases: study.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-17 · rssUnderstanding the link between the rainy season and your heart rhythm. While rain by itself is not a cause of atrial fibrillation, which is irregular or rapid heart rhythm, a few factors that occur with the monsoon can trigger it, especially in individuals who are at risk
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-17 · rssWhy do some people feel lonely even when they are loved? Emotional loneliness begins in childhood, not adulthood. Understanding that could reshape India’s response to a growing public health challenge
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-13 · rssWomen with endometriosis at 46% higher risk of diabetes, study suggests. Endometriosis was associated with a 46 % higher risk of type 2 diabetes compared with no endometriosis
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-11 · rssTrump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups’ guidance. Donald Trump called the announcement a ‘major victory for parents’ rights, religious and constitutional rights, and for the gold standard science’
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-08 · rssCDSCO issues guidance clarifying regulatory pathway for AI, software-based medical devices. It elaborates how software-based medical devices, including artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled products, will be regulated under the Medical Devices Rules (MDR), 2017.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-08 · rssFrequent falls and clumsiness in early childhood: just a phase or something more? Delays or problems with gross motor skills beyond a particular age may point to neurological or neuromuscular issues; it is important to be able to identify signs early in order to seek medical help
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-08 · rssExtreme heat puts South Asia’s jobs and growth at risk: World Bank. The World Bank says extreme heat should no longer be treated as a seasonal emergency, warning that rising temperatures threaten livelihoods, productivity and long-term economic growth across the region
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-08 · rssTowards nutritional literacy: navigating food labels, social media feeds and traditional wisdom to arrive at better diets. As consumers, we need to move beyond simplified narratives that classify every food as either ‘clean’ or ‘toxic’. Instead, we should understand what processing means, learn how to interpret labels, appreciate portion sizes, and focus on the quality of our overall eating patter
• BBC NewsAug 8, 2026 · rssBreast cancer checks missing most women under 50 who are at risk, says study. Up to 95% of younger women who are at higher risk of developing breast cancer are being missed by current NHS checks, researchers warn.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-05 · rssIndia’s cancer focus must shift to early detection. Cancer in India is still diagnosed predominantly after symptoms become severe enough to disrupt daily life. By then, opportunities for curative treatment have often been lost
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssHow excessive police force turns peaceful marches into medical crises. In India, information on the crowd control devices that security personnel possess and use is not easily available. Regular audits are necessary to ensure these devices meet quality standards and tests should be conducted in a manner that reveals the weapons’ full impact before they are deployed, per the UN guidance.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssWhat does the new research on Vitamin B12-based therapy for brain cancer reveal? The experiment found that a modified analogue of vitamin B12 known as nitrosylcobalamin (NO-Cbl) that was specifically designed to include nitric oxide, a substance that can kill tumour cells selectively, managed to pass the blood-brain barrier. While the research looks promising, there is still a long way to go befor
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssU.S. FDA approves first mRNA flu shot from Moderna. The shot, mFlusiva, was given a traditional approval for adults ​aged 50 to 64, and an accelerated approval ⁠for those 65 years and older
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssCan stress cause acne? Experts explain the science behind the skin–mind connection. Psychological stress can aggravate acne through inflammatory and hormonal pathways, while also influencing sleep, diet and treatment adherence. Dermatologists say managing stress should complement, not replace acne treatment
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssHealth Quiz: On infant and child nutrition. With World Breastfeeding Week having just come to an end, the focus has been on infant and child nutrition -- an area where India still lags. There’s a wealth of information out there on how to feed children and how to ensure they develop healthy eating habits. How much do you know? Take the quiz and find out!
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssDoctors’ associations oppose move to allow homoeopathy practitioners to prescribe allopathic medicine. Condemning the decision taken by the Maharashtra government, the IMA said it will launch a protest if the ‘illegal order’ is not withdrawn by July 10.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssBeyond the bedroom: why erectile dysfunction deserves medical attention. An occasional episode after exhaustion, heavy alcohol consumption, emotional strain or poor sleep is common, and does not necessarily indicate a disorder. The concern arises when the problem recurs, causes distress or leads to avoidance of intimacy
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssOkinawa: life in a blue zone. Ogimi, a village in Okinawa, is a lush landscape dotted with small farms where residents grow much of their own food, live with a strong sense of purpose, make time for leisure, and forge deep social connections within their community
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssTamil Nadu Budget 2026: Healthcare spending continues to rise in State. However, the health announcements in the Budget fell short to address the need to increase manpower
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssSometimes, they just want someone to listen: Inside Hyderabad’s Roshni support helpline.
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssIsrael schools the world on preventing hospital catastrophes during war. This, after the country has been condemned for the hundreds of healthcare units it has struck in Gaza after October 7, 2023
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-06 · rssTraditional diets shape unique gut microbes of Indian tribes. Research on Indian tribal populations shows that traditional diets foster unique gut bacteria distinct from industrialised societies; the findings highlight an urgent need for biobanking to preserve microbial diversity and develop region-specific probiotic therapies as required
• Health News, Wellbeing Tips, Diseases, Treatment and Nutrition | The Hindu2026-08-07 · rssHealth Ministry introduces strict measures against fake or fabricated data. Until now, applicants found guilty of submitting fabricated data were liable to face only rejection of applications or cancellation of existing licences; the new provisions go a step further by imposing a temporary ban on future applications, aimed at deterring repeated violations