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31 Jul

Caring for an Ageing India: Challenges and Opportunities

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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 you stroll through any middle-class neighborhood in Pune or Kochi, you can’t help but see more grey hair on morning walks, more elderly folks shopping alone, and more homes where the kids have left for Bengaluru or Toronto, leaving their parents behind. The United Nations…

30 Jul

India’s Doctor Shortage: Why It Exists and How Telemedicine Could Help

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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 numbers look better on paper these days. But out in the real world, the doctor shortage is as tough as ever and nowhere near solved. The Numbers Tell Two Different Stories Let’s talk numbers. Officially, India now beats the World Health Organization’s target — about…

29 Jul

Dr. Pruthvi Vaity Envisions a New Era of Longevity Medicine and Preventive Wellness in India

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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 Trainer at MAC International Academy. Through his work in physician education, regenerative aesthetics, preventive wellness, and longevity medicine, Dr. Pruthvi Vaity advocates a scientific, patient-centered approach that emphasizes healthspan as much as lifespan. According to Dr. Pruthvi Vaity, the future of medicine lies in helping…

28 Jul

Cheaper, Faster, Homegrown: Seven Indian Health Inventions Changing Global Care

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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 old rules get tossed out. Now, you’ll find these ideas in clinics from Nairobi to Jakarta. The limb that walks barefoot Everyone in India knows about the Jaipur Foot. Back in the ’70s, Dr. P.K. Sethi and sculptor Ram Chandra Sharma teamed up in Jaipur…

25 Jul

The Rise of Health Insurance and Why Most Indians Still Go Without It

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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, the change isn’t even everywhere, but it’s real. The numbers show just how much things have shifted: Indian insurers collected around ₹20,096 crore in health premiums in 2014-15. Fast-forward a decade, and that figure has ballooned to nearly ₹1,17,505 crore. Health insurance is now the…

20 Jul

Why is LivLong365 Betting on Full Stack Healthcare, From Insurance to Care Delivery?

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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 up with a third party for their chronic medications. This results in: Indian families continue to incur huge out-of-pocket expenses The largest portion of that spend is on routine outpatient needs like lab tests, doctor consultations, and medicines Health insurance only covered inpatient hospitalization to…

13 Jul

’70–80% of Medical Issues Don’t Need Hospitalization’ — Ashish Srivastava’s Visionary Day-Care Model

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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 the leadership of its Founder, Ashish Srivastava. In an insightful conversation with journalist Sweta Singh, Srivastava speaks about the philosophy behind KRA Healthcare, the vision driving its Emergency Health Desk initiative, and why the future of healthcare lies not merely in treating illness, but in…

07 Jul

AI Progress in Healthcare: How Intelligent Technology Is Transforming Patient Care

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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 behind the curtain, AI helps doctors, nurses, hospitals, and researchers tackle some of the toughest problems in medicine. It’s changing patient care without the fanfare. Sure, medicine has always been built on people—skill, experience, genuine care. But these days, everything’s busier: more patients, growing expenses,…

01 Jul

You’re Not Deficient. Your Diet Just Has Gaps.

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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 specific, diagnosed deficiency. Your doctor runs a blood test, finds your Vitamin D is critically low, and prescribes a high dose to bring it back to normal range. That is supplementation, a targeted intervention for a verified clinical gap. The problem is that most people…

30 Jun

Have You Heard of HIFU? The Non-Surgical Skin Tightening Treatment Celebrities Swear by to Combat Signs of Ageing

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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 collagen-boosting effects, all without surgery or downtime. So, how does this technology work, and what makes it an effective treatment for ageing-related skin concerns? Let’s understand from the experts. What is HIFU? HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) is a non-invasive cosmetic procedure used for skin…