Tag: health

Caring for an Ageing India: Challenges and Opportunities
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Caring for an Ageing India: Challenges and Opportunities

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 31: By 2050, one out of every five Indians will be over 60. That single fact flips the usual story of India being a “young country” on its head. A Shift Nobody Saw Coming For years, people talked about India’s youth—median age around 28, an unstoppable workforce everyone admired. Now, if […]

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India’s Doctor Shortage: Why It Exists and How Telemedicine Could Help
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India’s Doctor Shortage: Why It Exists and How Telemedicine Could Help

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 30: Walk into any district hospital in eastern Uttar Pradesh before lunchtime, ask a doctor how many patients they’ve seen, and you’ll probably be shocked by the answer. The truth is, in much of rural India, one government doctor still cares for tens of thousands of people. Sure, the country’s health […]

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Cheaper, Faster, Homegrown: Seven Indian Health Inventions Changing Global Care
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Cheaper, Faster, Homegrown: Seven Indian Health Inventions Changing Global Care

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 28: When you don’t have much to work with and the stakes are high, you start thinking differently. That’s basically how healthcare innovation works in India. Instead of copying expensive Western solutions, people here create original fixes—sometimes in makeshift garages, sometimes in sweaty government hospitals, sometimes inside big company labs where […]

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The Rise of Health Insurance and Why Most Indians Still Go Without It
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The Rise of Health Insurance and Why Most Indians Still Go Without It

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 25: Ten years ago, if you were trying to sell health insurance door-to-door in a small Indian town, you’d mostly hear: “We’ve never fallen sick badly enough to need it.” People talked as if real illness was something distant—something that happened to someone else’s family. That’s not so true anymore. Sure, […]

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You’re Not Deficient. Your Diet Just Has Gaps.
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You’re Not Deficient. Your Diet Just Has Gaps.

New Delhi [India], July 01: There’s a word most people use for everything they take in a capsule form: supplement. Iron supplement. Vitamin D supplement. Omega-3 supplement. The word has become a catch-all and that’s exactly where the confusion starts. What a supplement actually is A supplement is corrective. It is designed to treat a […]

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