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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 โ cheaper copies of complex biological drugs โ 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.
India loses a student to suicide every 55 minutes. Kota's coaching factories, the IIT pressure cooker and over 6 crore university students with almost no mental health support. The system is.
India has 1.46 million new cancer cases each year, and around 70 percent are diagnosed at Stage 3 or 4 when cure rates plummet. The problem is not cancer biology. It is the absence of screening.
India saw the world's second-largest COVID wave. Now an estimated 5 million Indians live with Long COVID, chronic fatigue, brain fog and organ damage that persists two years or more after.
Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common hormonal disorder in Indian women of reproductive age. Around 1 in 5 are affected. Most are diagnosed late. Long-term risks include diabetes, heart.
PM-JAY is the world's largest government health insurance scheme, covering 55 crore Indians for up to 5 lakh rupees a year. Six years of data reveal what works, what doesn't, and who still falls.
Stunting from chronic undernutrition affects 35 percent of Indian children under five. India still carries one-third of the world's stunted children and the deficit shows up in school.
Chronic kidney disease affects an estimated 220 million Indians. 90 percent don't know they have it. By the time symptoms appear, 60 to 80 percent of kidney function is gone. Dialysis costs.
IBS affects 14 percent of urban Indians, up from 4 percent in 2000. Ultra-processed food is rewriting the Indian gut microbiome, and science is finally catching up with what dal-chawal actually.
Patients from 180 countries now fly to India for cardiac surgeries, cancer care, and organ transplants โ at 20% of Western costs. Apollo, Fortis, and AIIMS are competing for the globe's sickest.
Cardiovascular disease is India's number one killer, responsible for 28 percent of all deaths. Indians have heart attacks 10 years younger than Westerners. The urban surge is accelerating.
India consumes more antibiotics than any country on Earth. Superbugs resistant to last-resort drugs kill 58,000 Indian newborns every year. The post-antibiotic era may arrive here first.
India has 39 of the world's 50 most polluted cities. 1.7 million Indians die from air pollution every year โ more than from any infectious disease. The damage is invisible until it isn't.
India has the world's largest diabetic population โ 101 million diagnosed, 136 million pre-diabetic. Most don't know. Most aren't treated. The cost is limbs, kidneys, and lives.
India has 27 percent of the world's tuberculosis cases and 36 percent of global TB deaths. PM Modi pledged elimination by 2025. The deadline has passed. Here's what happened and what comes next.
India's MMR fell from 254 to 97 per lakh live births in a decade, one of the fastest sustained declines globally. Three states still exceed 150. Here's what drove progress and where it stalled.
India has abundant sunlight, yet 70-90% of Indians show vitamin-D deficiency. The causes span biology, lifestyle, and diet, with effects from weak bones to metabolic disease.