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Preventive Healthcare Alignment: National Mission Shifts Focus from Curative Protocols to Nutritional SecurityIn a major inter-disciplinary policy convergence targeting rural health metrics, the Indian Council of Medical...
Evolving Clinical Terminology: Experts Move From Misleading 'Cysts' Label to Comprehensive Endocrine DiagnosisIn an essential nomenclature update published in The Lancet, an international expert panel representing the gl...
Frontline Labour Protection: Free Clinical Screenings Mandated for Factory Cadres Aged 40 and AboveIn a significant expansion of industrial social security and occupational safety nets, the Union Ministry of Labour and E...
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has released India's first guidance document on Diabetes Mellitus in children. It sets out a national framework for screening, diagnosis, treatment and long-term management for c...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has released the 'Household Social Consumption: Health' survey conducted under the 80th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS).Illness: About 13.1% of pe...
NSS 80th Round Health Survey: A Snapshot of India’s Healthcare Transition The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has released the findings of the 80th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS), t...
The Partnership for Healthy Cities (PHC) Summit 2026, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, brought together officials from 55 cities and renewed the worldwide commitment to cutting disease. PHC is a network of 74 cities focus...
PHC Summit 2026: Accelerating Urban Health Action The Partnership for Healthy Cities (PHC) Summit 2026 was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from March 30 to April 2, 2026. The summit brought together health officials and...
The WHO Foundation has joined hands with Novo Nordisk to address childhood obesity in India. The partnership will run school-based health programmes and public awareness drives to encourage healthy living, balanced diets...
A recent analysis of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study found that India and China carried the highest metabolic disease burden in the Asia-Pacific region during 1990-2023. The study measures health loss in Disabil...
An ICMR-India Diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB) study reported a sharp rise in diabetes and prediabetes in Tamil Nadu, with diabetes prevalence among those above 20 rising from 11.1% (2008-2010) to 22.7% (2022-2023), a 104% increas...
In January 2026, the Government of India expanded its public health initiatives with a focus on improving accessibility, infrastructure, and preventive healthcare services. The expansion aimed to strengthen primary healt...
