GST on individual and family floater health insurance dropped to zero in late 2025. Premiums still rose. Here’s what’s actually driving the cost of your health cover, and what to do about it at renewal.
Is Half of India’s Vegetarian Population Really B12 Deficient? Here’s What the Studies Actually Show India doesn’t have a single nationwide survey measuring vitamin B12 deficiency — that number genuinely doesn’t exist yet. What exists instead is a patchwork of smaller clinical and regional studies, and they consistently point the same direction: a meaningful share […]
India Just Made AI Cancer-Screening Software a Regulated Medical Device — Here’s What That Actually Changes India records somewhere between 1.5 and 1.6 million new cancer cases a year, and roughly 870,000 to 900,000 deaths — the exact figures vary slightly depending on whether you’re reading GLOBOCAN’s 2024 country estimate or the ICMR-linked registry study […]
India Is Rolling Out AI to 70,000 Hospitals — Here’s What It Actually Does India’s National Health Authority is deploying an AI clinical decision support system called Smart Doctor across nearly 70,000 public and private hospitals, under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). It’s one of the largest single AI healthcare rollouts attempted anywhere, and […]
The Cancers You Can Actually Prevent When people think about cancer prevention, genetics and lifestyle usually come to mind first. A Lancet Oncology study published this year adds a third category that gets far less attention in everyday conversation: infections. In India, nearly 1.9 lakh cancer cases in 2024 — about 12% of the country’s […]
The AI Tools Already Working Inside Indian Hospitals Most conversations about AI in healthcare are still speculative — what it might do someday, what it could replace, what regulators haven’t figured out yet. But inside some of India’s largest hospital networks, a quieter shift has already happened: specific AI tools are in daily clinical use, […]
The Diabetes You Can’t Feel Coming You feel fine. You go to work, eat your meals, sleep reasonably well. By most measures, nothing’s wrong. And yet, according to India’s two largest recent health datasets, there’s a good chance your blood sugar has already started slipping — and you have no way of knowing it without […]