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Cheap “Whitening” Toothpaste, Serious Damage: How Fake Dental Products Sold at Bus Stands and Railway Stations Can Harm Your Teeth

From drugs reaching jails and rehab centres to poor treatment, India struggles with effective addiction care and too few quality rehabilitation facilities

An AIIMS study reveals that social pressures, economic dependence and family responsibilities-not altruism alone-drive a majority of women to become living kidney donors, raising troubling questions about gender inequity in organ transplantation

Rate-contract system to make advanced arthroscopic surgeries more affordable; patients to deposit charges directly with hospital instead of private vendors

With 576 substandard drug batches flagged in Q1 2026, the menace deepens, as missing city-wise data keeps Delhi’s wholesale hubs under continued scrutiny

Advanced machinery, forged paperwork and weak oversight fuel a ₹43-crore counterfeit medicine trail in Delhi, with life-saving drugs in the crosshairs

Cheap “Whitening” Toothpaste, Serious Damage: How Fake Dental Products Sold at Bus Stands and Railway Stations Can Harm Your Teeth

From drugs reaching jails and rehab centres to poor treatment, India struggles with effective addiction care and too few quality rehabilitation facilities

Landmark study of 61,000 TB patients finds PM2.5 exposure increases treatment-related death risk, threatening India’s TB-Mukt Bharat goal

Study Identifies TOMM20 as a Key Driver of Breast Cancer Growth, Offering Hope for Earlier Diagnosis and Targeted Therapies

ICMR-backed study exposes a silent public health threat as experts call for universal screening, premarital counselling and prenatal diagnosis to prevent hundreds of avoidable births with thalassaemia major every year

A new Lancet study projects an alarming rise in demand for kidney, liver, heart, and lung transplants by 2040, highlighting India's critical shortage of deceased organ donors