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8 in 10 Indian professionals surveyed were found to be overweight and nearly half had prediabetes or diabetes, according to Apollo Hospitals' yearly Health of Nation (HoN) Survey. The study drew on nearly 3 million preventive health assessments across Apollo's pan-India network, which included 500,000 corporate health assessments and 100,000 assessments of people under the age of 30. It emphasised the need for individuals to look beyond disease prevention and proactively optimise their health. ...Read More >
Hyderabad : India's most common health risks are arriving earlier and staying hidden longer, according to the sixth edition of Apollo Hospitals' Health of the Nation 2026 (HoN 2026) report, released today on World Health Day. Based on over three million preventive health assessments conducted across the Apollo ecosystem in 2025, the report makes a compelling case for proactive healthcare, an approach that goes beyond preventing disease to help individuals optimise their health and become the bes ...Read More >
Satna/Bhopal, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress MLA Vikrant Bhuria on Wednesday expressed shock over contaminated blood transfusion to the children suffering from thalassaemia at the government hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Satna, describing it a 'systemic failure', which may 'destroy' children's lives. Young Congress MLA Bhuria, who is also a Doctor (MBBS) by profession, said that the mandatory medical norms for collecting blood samples and testing them at multiple stages might be the reason for ...Read More >
Mumbai: After reviewing studies conducted over 34 years, a group of Indian neonatologists concluded that shorter antibiotic courses could be as effective as traditional longer courses for serious infections such as sepsis among newborns. The review was published in an indexed and peer-reviewed UK journal, 'Lancet Clinical Medicine'. The main finding was that a seven-day antibiotic course, instead of the traditionally recommended 10-14 days, was sufficient in most newborn babies with proven blood ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 16: PrecisionRNA Biotech Pvt. Ltd. (Prerna), a leading healthcare innovation company from Hyderabad, today announced the launch of Cantel™, India's first microRNA-based blood test for breast cancer screening. This groundbreaking test is set to transform early detection by offering a simple, convenient, and highly accurate alternative to traditional methods, addressing the critical screening gap that has led to late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer in India. ...Read More >
MUMBAI - India's regulator has restrained Jane Street Group from accessing the local securities market, dealing a severe hit to the US trading firm that generated more than US$2.3 billion (S$2.9 billion) in net revenue from equity derivatives in the South Asian nation in 2024. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said it would seize 48.4 billion rupees (S$722 million) from Jane Street, which it claimed is the total amount of unlawful gains made by the fund, according to the order. ...Read More >
Kuppam (Chittoor dist): Andhra Pradesh on Thursday took a significant leap in healthcare innovation with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu inaugurating the state's first Digital Nerve Centre (DiNC) at the Kuppam Area Hospital. This initiative, a collaborative effort with Tata Trusts and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aims at integrating all health services under a single digital platform, beginning in Kuppam and slated for statewide expansion. The DiNC is designed to seamlessly connect ...Read More >
Srinagar, June 28: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today chaired a high-level meeting with members of civil society organisations, religious leaders, elected representatives, and representatives from the trade and business communities to review arrangements for the upcoming Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra. Among those present were Chief Minister Omar Abdullah; Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo; Special Director General (Coordination) S.J.M. Gillani; Principal Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor and CEO of Sh ...Read More >
123 Nagpur: New medicines are proving so effective that in about 25% of patients battling heart failure, the heart's pumping power can be restored to normal."Heart failure is no longer a hopeless condition. With newer medicines, around a quarter of heart failure cases are reversible. This means the heart's pumping capacity can be regained. Moreover, in about 50% of patients, we can now control heart failure very effectively," said Dr JC Mohan, a leading cardiologist in India and key speaker at t ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a major medical breakthrough, scientists from Israel and the US have developed a simple blood test capable of detecting a person's risk of developing leukaemia, a deadly form of blood cancer. The findings were published in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine and reported by Xinhua news agency. The new test could potentially replace the current invasive diagnostic method -- bone marrow sampling. This traditional method requires local anaesthesia and can cause significant discom ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) A team of Israeli and US researchers have developed a simple blood test that can detect a person's risk of developing leukaemia -- a deadly blood cancer. In the study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, the researchers suggested that this test may replace the current more invasive method of bone marrow sampling used to diagnose certain blood cancers, Xinhua news agency reported. The team led by researchers from Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jan 27 (PTI) An analysis of blood samples of children and teenagers with long Covid has revealed a "distinct protein signature in plasma", which researchers say can help develop a blood test for diagnosis. Long Covid refers to the symptoms, including chronic fatigue, that persist despite recovering from acute COVID-19 infection. The condition, including causes, treatments and diagnostics, continues to be studied around the world. Researchers, including those from the Catholic Univer ...Read More >
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