Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 31: By 2050, one out of every five Indians will be over 60. That single fact flips the usual story of India being a “young country” on its head. A Shift Nobody Saw Coming For years, people talked about India’s youth—median age around 28, an unstoppable workforce everyone admired. Now, if…
Category: Health
India’s Doctor Shortage: Why It Exists and How Telemedicine Could Help
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 30: Walk into any district hospital in eastern Uttar Pradesh before lunchtime, ask a doctor how many patients they’ve seen, and you’ll probably be shocked by the answer. The truth is, in much of rural India, one government doctor still cares for tens of thousands of people. Sure, the country’s health…
Dr. Pruthvi Vaity Envisions a New Era of Longevity Medicine and Preventive Wellness in India
New Delhi [India], July 27: Across the world, healthcare is steadily evolving from a model centered on treating disease to one focused on preserving health, preventing illness, and optimizing quality of life. Among the clinicians contributing to this evolving conversation in India is Dr. Pruthvi Vaity, Medical Director of HealRx Aesthetics and Laser Clinic and…
Cheaper, Faster, Homegrown: Seven Indian Health Inventions Changing Global Care
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 28: When you don’t have much to work with and the stakes are high, you start thinking differently. That’s basically how healthcare innovation works in India. Instead of copying expensive Western solutions, people here create original fixes—sometimes in makeshift garages, sometimes in sweaty government hospitals, sometimes inside big company labs where…
The Rise of Health Insurance and Why Most Indians Still Go Without It
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 25: Ten years ago, if you were trying to sell health insurance door-to-door in a small Indian town, you’d mostly hear: “We’ve never fallen sick badly enough to need it.” People talked as if real illness was something distant—something that happened to someone else’s family. That’s not so true anymore. Sure,…
Why is LivLong365 Betting on Full Stack Healthcare, From Insurance to Care Delivery?
Thane (Maharashtra) [India], July 20: India’s healthcare system has been a fragmented, ad-hoc system for decades. A patient buys health insurance from one company, gets their blood test done at another lab that has no connection with the policy, consults with a doctor who has their reports at a completely different place, and then follows…
’70–80% of Medical Issues Don’t Need Hospitalization’ — Ashish Srivastava’s Visionary Day-Care Model
Director, KRA Healthcare Healthcare has a peculiar way of exposing the cracks beneath even the most well-planned urban lifestyles. Gated communities may have surveillance systems, security personnel and world-class amenities, yet when a medical emergency strikes, preparedness often gives way to panic. It is this overlooked reality that has shaped KRA Healthcare‘s community-first approach under…
AI Progress in Healthcare: How Intelligent Technology Is Transforming Patient Care
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 7: AI isn’t just a futuristic idea anymore—it’s here, woven into daily life whether you notice it or not. Netflix lines up your next show, Siri chimes in with the weather, and honestly, nowhere is AI making a bigger impact than in healthcare. It’s not the showy kind of change, but…
You’re Not Deficient. Your Diet Just Has Gaps.
New Delhi [India], July 01: There’s a word most people use for everything they take in a capsule form: supplement. Iron supplement. Vitamin D supplement. Omega-3 supplement. The word has become a catch-all and that’s exactly where the confusion starts. What a supplement actually is A supplement is corrective. It is designed to treat a…
Have You Heard of HIFU? The Non-Surgical Skin Tightening Treatment Celebrities Swear by to Combat Signs of Ageing
New Delhi [India], June 30: If you have been a keen observer of the latest trends in the world of aesthetics, there is a good chance that you might have heard of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU). This non-invasive anti-ageing treatment has become a rage in the beauty world and among celebrities for its skin tightening, facial transformation, and…