57% of Indian women are anemic vs. 25% of men, per NFHS-5 — and a fresh 2026 dataset of 9.3 million checkups finds almost the same ratio. Here’s why the gap exists and what to actually do about it.
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Breaking health research, new drug approvals, landmark clinical trials, and emerging science — summarised clearly for informed readers. Updated as major findings are published.
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 […]
Medically Written & Reviewed By Dr. Ajit Kumar, MD (Medicine) — Founder, Medimadad. About the Author | Editorial Policy A study presented at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting is getting attention for a genuinely striking finding: women taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy were roughly 30% less likely to develop breast cancer. It’s a […]
Medically Written & Reviewed By Dr. Ajit Kumar, MD (Medicine) — Founder, Medimadad. About the Author | Editorial Policy Millions of people on Ozempic and Wegovy lose more than just fat. They also lose muscle – sometimes significant amounts. And millions more cannot tolerate the nausea, vomiting, and appetite suppression that comes with GLP-1 drugs […]
Medically Written & Reviewed By Dr. Ajit Kumar, MD (Medicine) — Founder, Medimadad. About the Author | Editorial Policy The question I hear most from patients considering semaglutide isn’t about the science — it’s some version of “do I really have to inject myself every week?” For a genuine subset of people, that one detail […]
Medically Written & Reviewed By Dr. Ajit Kumar, MD (Medicine) — Founder, Medimadad. About the Author | Editorial Policy In 2023, India crossed 101 million people living with type 2 diabetes – officially surpassing China to become the diabetes capital of the world. The same year, a landmark Lancet projection study modelled that India is […]
Medically Written & Reviewed By Dr. Ajit Kumar, MD (Medicine) — Founder, Medimadad. About the Author | Editorial Policy In 1972, a Canadian research expedition collected soil samples from Easter Island – known in the indigenous language as Rapa Nui. The samples sat in freezer storage for years, largely forgotten. When researchers eventually analysed them, […]
Medically Written & Reviewed By Dr. Ajit Kumar, MD (Medicine) — Founder, Medimadad. About the Author | Editorial Policy How the Alzheimer’s Blood Test Works The Alzheimer’s blood test measures levels of a protein called phosphorylated tau 217 (p-tau217). In Alzheimer’s disease, abnormal tau proteins accumulate in the brain, disrupting neural communication and eventually causing […]