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The latest National Commission for Indian System of Medicine circular reinforces the legal status of registered AYUSH practitioners and seeks to prevent their public mischaracterisation while affirming their place in India’s healthcare workforce
Read article →Why NCISM says Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, and Sowa-Rigpa doctors cannot be called “quacks”
Read article →The Union Health Ministry has urged people to monitor alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels as an early indicator of liver injury. Experts explain what ALT measures are, who should be tested, and why both high and normal ALT levels require careful interpretation
Read article →When did the outbreak start? What is the progress on the vaccine?
Read article →The World Bank says extreme heat should no longer be treated as a seasonal emergency, warning that rising temperatures threaten livelihoods, productivity and long-term economic growth across the region
Read article →Kerala has reported 49 deaths—30 confirmed to be due to leptospirosis and 19 suspected cases—in the month of July, 2026 alone. There have been 1,381 confirmed and 922 probable cases of leptospirosis so far in 2026 with total deaths of 115, including 52 probable leptospirosis deaths
Read article →India, which has a long history of addressing the challenges of undernutrition, has to pivot to attack the curious phenomenon of overnutrition that evolving lifestyles have now laid at its…
Read article →Lung cancer continues to pose a significant public health challenge in Karnataka, accounting for over 6% of all new cancer cases in the State. According to data released by the…
Read article →The prevalence of prediabetes and obesity among adolescent school children in Chennai has risen sharply over the past 17 years, according to a new study that compared data collected in…
Read article →People who want to give birth at home or without the help of doctors are going to Reddit, Instagram, and YouTube to both give and take medical guidance. Lives have already been lost
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