Healthcare

Economic Survey flags rising lifestyle diseases and obesity in India, urging stricter regulation and warning labels on ultra-processed foods to curb health risks

Sagility's profit after tax (PAT) grew 23 per cent year-on-year to ₹322.9 crore in Q3FY26 compared to ₹262.6 crore in the year-ago period

As digital health gains pace, Budget expectations centre on higher spending, insurance expansion and a preventive-care shift to fix India's healthcare gaps

Postbiotics are beneficial compounds produced when gut bacteria, including probiotics, break down prebiotics. In other words, they are not live bacteria, but substances those bacteria produce

Rising medical costs and insurance gaps are pushing more urban Indians to take personal loans for healthcare, with reliance highest in Tier-I cities, a Paisabazaar study shows

Price controls by the Indian regulator, USFDA actions, and concentration risk are key concerns

Dr Reddy's Laboratories reported a sharp fall in December-quarter profit as declining Lenalidomide sales in the US weighed on earnings, even as India revenues and branded businesses remained resilient

Industry body FICCI has re-appointed healthcare entrepreneur GSK Velu as Chairman of its Tamil Nadu State Council for 2025-26, marking his fifth straight term at the helm of the council

Delhi High Court upheld the patent office's rejection of a Japanese firm's cancer detection method using worms, ruling it barred under patent law as a diagnostic process

The Centre urged the Andhra Pradesh government to adopt a public-private partnership model to modernise its healthcare system. In a letter to State Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav, the Ministry of Health highlighted that collaborating with the private sector is the fastest way to bridge gaps in medical demand and expand service delivery across the state. The Centre urged Andhra Pradesh to extensively adopt the PPP model to accelerate healthcare expansion and improve availability, quality, and efficiency of services, said an official release on Wednesday. The Ministry suggested implementing PPP in rural and semi-urban areas, focussing on nuclear medicine, mobile units, dental clinics, radiology services, and cancer day care centres. It proposed an approach where private partners are engaged for 5 to 10 years. The Centre noted that nuclear medicine facilities for cancer and neurological care remain inadequate in smaller towns, urging expansion of PET CT, SPECT, and radiotherapy ..

Bessemer Venture Partners leads the Series B round as the healthcare chain bets on rising demand for rehabilitation outside hospitals

Should colostrum be discarded? Do babies need water in summer? Does holding them too much spoil them? In this episode of our fact-check series

Ahead of Budget 2026-27, healthcare, medtech and pharma firms seek tax relief, higher R&D incentives and stronger support for preventive care and domestic manufacturing

The Chhattisgarh-based arm of Coal India Limited (CIL) will take up the project through its corporate social responsibility (CSR) head, SECL spokesperson said

With this announcement, Even Healthcare reports operating break-even within six months of its first hospital launch. The fundraise also marks a 2x valuation milestone for the company

The Mumbai-based pharma company has commissioned a ₹165-crore formulations plant at Ambernath to support contract manufacturing and strengthen its presence in regulated global markets

Lupin has signed an exclusive licensing, supply and distribution deal with China's Gan & Lee for Bofanglutide, a fortnightly GLP-1 injectable for diabetes and weight management in India

Fitness firm Fittr is moving towards providing a holistic preventive healthcare service, combining diagnostics with doctor consultations, to target non-communicable diseases, according to its founder and CEO Jitendra Chouksey. The firm has earmarked investment of up to Rs 15 crore to set up company-owned diagnostic laboratories in five metro cities, while also collaborating with partners to expand its lab network to 5,000 pin codes across India, Chouksey told PTI. "We are moving towards a preventive healthcare ecosystem, where we are combining diagnostics with doctor consultations, along with coaching and wearable monitoring, to address one of the biggest pain points in the country today, which is the growing number of NCD (non-communicable diseases) deaths, which are happening in the country," he said. Earlier, Fittr operated primarily as a fitness company, where it used to render nutrition and training services with the help of its coaches, he noted. Chouksey was responding to a

A 44-year-old Indian-origin man has died of suspected cardiac arrest after waiting for more than eight hours for treatment in a hospital's emergency room area, a media report has said. Prashant Sreekumar began experiencing severe chest pains while at work on December 22, Global News reported on Wednesday. A client drove him to the Grey Nuns Hospital in southeast Edmonton, where Prashant was checked in at triage and then took a seat in the waiting room. His father, Kumar Sreekumar, soon arrived. He told me, Papa, I cannot bear the pain,' Kumar said. Kumar said his son told him and hospital staff the pain was a 15 out of 10. They did an electrocardiogram (ECG) on him to check his heart's function, but the family said Prashant was told there was nothing of significance and to keep waiting. Staff also offered Prashant some Tylenol for his pain. He waited, and waited some more. Kumar said as time passed, nurses would check Prashant's blood pressure. It went up, up, and up. To me,

The Rs 251 crore initial public offering of Gujarat Kidney and Super Speciality saw strong retail interest, closing with a 5.21-times subscription despite volatility in secondary markets