Category: Health
Juvenile justice, child labour and welfare among top NCPCR complaint list in 2024: govt report
<!--><!--><!--><!--> The complaints regarding child labour and children in distress totalled nearly 20,000 cases. By 2024-end, 19,645 were pending |Photograph used for representational purpose only ... Read More
Study projects kidney cancer cases could double in next 25 years globally
<!--><!--><!--><!--> The authors wrote, “Globally, 434,840 individual cases and 155,953 individual deaths were recorded in 2022. In total, 745,791 new cases (up by 72 %) ... Read More
Experts stress the need for research and physician training to expand medical uses of cannabis in India
Cannabis and its derivatives are gaining attention in medical circles, but experts stress that their use must be cautious and evidence-driven. In India, clinicians say ... Read More
AI therapy apps keep experts and regulators on their toes
In the absence of stronger federal regulation, some states have begun regulating apps that offer AI “therapy” as more people turn to artificial intelligence for ... Read More
On regulating AI chatbots’ interactions with children | Explained
The story so far:On September 16, at a U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing about the harms of AI chatbots, three parents, who filed lawsuits against ... Read More
Why we are losing young lives to heart disease and how we can tackle this
The theme of this year’s World Heart Day, “Don’t miss a beat” is an urgent call to action to raise awareness about the devastating nature ... Read More
Going beyond the metaphor ‘young at heart’
In a country where more than half the population is under the age of 35, India should ideally be seen as a land of vitality, ... Read More
Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions
At a Senate hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, on the corruption of science, witnesses presented an unpublishedzstudy that made a big assertion. They claimed that ... Read More
What your child’s platelet count and haemoglobin levels could be telling you
<!--><!--><!--><!--> Haemoglobin is an iron-containing protein in the red blood cells that gives them their colour. It circulates in the bloodstream, carrying oxygen from the ... Read More
Govt report estimates one-third of India’s children age 5-9 have high triglycerides
<!--><!--><!--><!--> Data gathered via government’s ministries and departments, such as National Family Health Survey 2019-21 and Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey 2016-18, were compiled | Image ... Read More