Wellbeing, fitness, public health and medical breakthroughs.
With dengue, malaria and chikungunya cases historically peaking after the rains, civic bodies led by Delhi are activating sentinel hospitals and stepping up mosquito control ahead of the dangerous monsoon months.
Drawing on the hard lessons of COVID-19, the ICMR is inviting proposals for AI systems to detect emerging pathogens across people, animals and the environment, in a bid to predict outbreaks rather than react to them.
The National Medical Commission says 2026-27 will be the final admission cycle for postgraduate diploma medical courses, with seats set to convert into MD and MS degree programmes from 2027-28.
The National Medical Commission's reported plan to discontinue postgraduate medical diplomas and convert eligible seats into MD and MS programmes is stirring debate over India's specialist training and seat availability.
Eight women developed serious complications, including kidney failure, after Caesarean deliveries at a Jodhpur district hospital, prompting a high-level probe and the closure of its operation theatre.
Food regulator FSSAI has reportedly issued notices over health and nutrition claims on packaged foods, sharpening scrutiny of labels like 'no added sugar', 'high protein' and 'immunity support'.
India's drug pricing regulator has merged its grievance portal with its price-checking tool, letting citizens verify medicine prices and file complaints from one place.
India's drug regulator CDSCO has marked 159 medicine samples as not of standard quality for May 2026, with one declared spurious, renewing scrutiny of batch-level quality control across the pharmaceutical supply chain.
India has crossed five lakh organ donation pledges, a landmark for transplant awareness, but doctors warn the real test is converting promises into timely, ethical and well-coordinated donations.
A cobra bite that killed a toddler in Pune district has reopened questions about hospital reporting, fast anti-venom access and the deadly cost of delayed treatment in rural India.
The Union government has mandated periodic registration renewal for ART and surrogacy clinics, tightening oversight of India's fast-growing fertility sector to protect patients, donors and surrogates.
India's wellness conversation is maturing from quick fixes to prevention, with better sleep, longevity tracking, gut-friendly diets and sober-curious living emerging as the dominant health priorities of 2026.
With semaglutide patents beginning to expire, a wave of low-cost Indian generics is widening access to GLP-1 weight-loss and diabetes drugs, even as doctors urge caution against misuse.
With the southwest monsoon advancing, health departments across India are scrambling to contain dengue, malaria and chikungunya after an unusually early spike in cases reported before the rains even arrived.
Cooling centres, ORS distribution and time-band work rules are spreading across Indian cities this summer, but experts say informal workers and the elderly remain dangerously exposed.
Indians are moving beyond aesthetics toward functional strength, mobility and recovery, as a maturing fitness culture blends gyms, apps and the outdoors in pursuit of long-term health.
New validation data and menstrual-blood research suggest a future where a condition that takes years to identify could be flagged from a simple sample rather than surgery.
Months after the nationwide rollout began, India's free HPV vaccination campaign for adolescent girls is reaching deeper into states as authorities race to dent the country's heavy cervical cancer burden.
The agency's most comprehensive assessment yet shows voluntary donation rising past 85 percent, even as low-income countries remain far short of what their patients need.
Fresh data underscoring India's shortage of public hospital beds has reignited debate over whether the country's health infrastructure can keep pace with rising demand and a fast-growing private sector.
A new corporate mental health report finds counselling sessions rising sharply since 2023, with workers in their early twenties driving the change and finance emerging as an unexpected hotspot.
Health officials say the once-predictable rainy-season cycle of dengue is blurring, with infections surfacing earlier in the year and surveillance now stretching across almost all twelve months.
As NIMHANS conducts India's second National Mental Health Survey, researchers are shifting the lens from illness to wellness, amid mounting evidence that young Indians are struggling more than ever.
Researchers at the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition found that adults with poorer vitamin status carried a markedly higher predicted risk of dementia, pointing to diet as a lever for healthy ageing.
A needle-free, AI-designed vaccine aimed at an entire family of coronaviruses cleared an early-stage human trial, generating broad immune responses without serious side effects.
A nationwide effort to connect clinics digitally is widening access to doctors and diagnostics far beyond the big cities.
With the patent on semaglutide lapsing in 2026, Indian generic makers are lining up their own versions, and the government plans incentives to spur local production.
Real-world data presented at a major oncology meeting hints that GLP-1 medicines, already widely used for diabetes and obesity, may reduce the odds of certain cancers advancing.