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India now has 12 million obese children under 19, according to ICMR data. School canteens sell junk food while ultra-processed food advertising targets children.
India collects only 11 million units of blood annually against a need of 15 million. The O-negative shortage is acute, urban blood banks run on single-day reserves, and the rural gap is catastrophic.
India has fewer sports medicine doctors than many US college programs. Cricket and marathons grew fast; specialist care did not, so preventable injuries end careers early.
Biosimilars — cheaper copies of complex biological drugs — are worth 50 billion globally. Indian companies are racing to capture that market, threatening to cut the price of cancer and.
Micronutrient gaps hit rich and poor: anaemia stays high, vegetarians often lack B12, and urban adults lack vitamin D. Fortification and better diets can bend the curve if delivery improves.
127 essential medicines are out of stock in government hospitals across 12 states. The shortage hits insulin, antibiotics and cancer drugs. Central procurement failure exposes PM Jan Aushadhi gaps.
India averages 6.1 hours of sleep a night, the lowest globally. Sleep deprivation costs India around 7.5 lakh crore rupees in lost productivity each year and drives a silent epidemic of.
India has 8 million blind people, more than any country. Cataract causes 66 percent of India's blindness. Yet India also runs the world's highest-volume, most cost-effective cataract surgery.
India averted a generalised HIV epidemic that experts had feared would reach 20 million by 2010. How it happened, what the data shows, and why 2.4 million Indians living with HIV still face.