Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, 57, recently recalled facing a health scare in Udaipur Central Jail, where he was lodged due to an alleged Rs 30 crore cheating and fraud case. Bhatt, who admitted to having “a serious autoimmune disorder called axial spondyloarthritis”, opened up about suffering from fever for nights together. “It must have been three...
Does a normal blood pressure mean all is well? This is a common and dangerous misconception: the belief that a healthy blood pressure reading is a clean bill of health for the entire cardiovascular system. While blood pressure is a vital metric, it is only one piece of a complex puzzle. To get an insight...
Hyderabad-based cardiologist Dr Syed Akram Ali recently shared a worrying case of a 37-year-old who, despite running 5 km daily, eating no junk, sleeping on time, and having no vices, needed two stent placements in his heart. “A healthy man with no junk food, ran 5 km had 2 stents. He ran 5 km every...
Hyderabad-based cardiologist Dr Syed Akram Ali recently shared a worrying case of a 37-year-old who, despite running 5 km daily, eating no junk, sleeping on time, and having no vices, needed two stent placements in his heart. “A healthy man with no junk food, ran 5 km had 2 stents. He ran 5 km every...
Mobile app developed to boost clinical workflow of community health officers, ETHealthworld Published On Apr 14, 2026 at 07:11 PM IST New Delhi: In a major step towards strengthening primary healthcare delivery and enhancing digital health services, the Union Health Ministry on Monday launched a dedicated mobile application designed to support and streamline the clinical...
4 min readNew DelhiApr 14, 2026 07:00 PM IST A new study published in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal has found that cases related to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) are “projected to rise to 1.8 billion by 2050, driven largely by population growth and lifestyle changes, including increasing rates of obesity and...
Jaggi Vasudev, popularly known as Sadhguru, recently had a conversation with actor Alia Bhatt in which he disclosed his sleep habits. The founder of the Isha Foundation told Alia, “For almost 27-28 years, I have managed with 2.5-3 hours. But two years ago, I broke my head twice. I cracked my head twice. I went...
4 min readNew DelhiApr 13, 2026 10:00 PM IST As conversations around longevity and ‘bio-hacking’ gain momentum, a drug once reserved for highly specific medical use is now being discussed in a very different context. Rapamycin, originally discovered in the 1970s and later approved for use in transplant medicine, is being positioned by some as...
The human body is highly adaptable. It continuously reconfigures and reorganises itself in direct response to the demands placed upon it. Its musculature is not a static structure, but a highly dynamic system that responds immediately to both activity and inactivity. When regular activity is removed, the human body does not simply stop or pause...
3 min readNew DelhiApr 13, 2026 04:00 PM IST The idea of having both insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar levels isn’t just possible — it is the hallmark of Type 2 diabetes. While the body can initially compensate for insulin resistance by producing more insulin, blood sugar levels inevitably rise once the pancreas can...
