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• From Muhurat Births to Mental Health Crises: A Gynaecologist’s Wake-Up Call for Mother’s Day

  Dr. Haritwal identifies advanced maternal age as the most prominent driver of high-risk pregnancies. More women are choosing to have children later in life, often due to career aspirations, late marriages, or fertility delays. She also points out the rise in non-medical C-sections, driven by convenience, social status, or even astrology, with the “too posh to push” mindset leading to longer recovery and future complications.

  

• The Growing Need for Dialysis Access: Why Advocacy Matters

  Actual care costs must guide reimbursement rates, which also need to reward quality standards being met and delivering superior clinical outcomes, including AV fistula prevalence, andinfection-prevention efforts in order to sustain long-term healthcare operations.

  

• When the immune system targets the brain: understanding CNS autoimmunity

  Detection of neural autoantibodies with accurate laboratory assays in patients with compatible clinical-MRI phenotypes allows a definite diagnosis of antibody-mediated CNS disorders, with important therapeutic and prognostic implications.

  

• Reimagining Healthcare: India’s Leap with AI, Bioscience & Ethics

  India is transforming healthcare by harnessing AI for greater access and affordability, accelerating bioscience innovation, and addressing ethical challenges in research. Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Dean of Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University explores how trust, scale, and grassroots integration are key to making intelligent, inclusive, and humane healthcare a reality.

  

• India’s Prisons at Breaking Point: Overcrowded, Understaffed, and Starved of Healthcare

  India’s prisons are turning into catastrophic death zones. Alarming levels of overcrowding, with some jails operating at up to 477 per cent capacity, is making prisons tough to survive. Compounding the crisis is the severe shortage of healthcare resources—one doctor for every 775 inmates—far exceeding recommended standards. States like Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand report one doctor for over 1,000 prisoners. Against the benchmark of one psychologist for every 500 inmates, India has only 25 psychologists for the entire prison population—an average of 1 for every 22,928 prisoners. No state meets the benchmark.

  

• "Unlocking Growth Requires Smoother Approvals and a Favorable Investment Climate": Abhay Soi

  Max Healthcare CMD Abhay Soi has called for regulatory reforms and quicker approvals to help private hospitals scale up and support India’s healthcare goals. Speaking to ETHealthworld he flagged outdated zoning laws, licensing burdens, and misaligned Ayushman Bharat pricing as key hurdles. Soi urged the government to enable self-certification for established hospital chains, noting that red tape delays expansion and drives up patient costs.

  

• Disconnected Care and Digital Overexposure Fuel India’s Autism and ADHD Surge: Dr Samir Dalwai

  Early diagnosis and interventions are crucial to improving the child’s quality of life. India falls woefully short in terms of awareness, both within and external to the medical fraternity.

  

• Nadda Calls for Private Hospitals to Strengthen Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

  Union Health Minister JP Nadda called on private hospitals, including Max Healthcare, to join the Ayushman Bharat Mission. He highlighted the importance of integrating with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission and Health Account to strengthen India’s healthcare system, improve access to affordable care, and support the government’s goal of achieving a Viksit Bharat by 2047.

  

• India's Malaria Elimination Strategy: Digital Health, AAMs and Genetic Innovation

  Dr Sita Rama Budaraja, Advisor, Health, Tata Trusts, underscores that addressing healthcare gaps in marginalized communities, while building trust and resilience into systems, is key to achieving malaria elimination by 2030.

  

• Opportunity in crisis? India's medical device sector eyes post tariffs world

  In a recent webinar hosted by ETHealthworld, industry experts examined the implications of recent US developments on Indian medical device manufacturers. While the panel noted that US tariff measures could potentially backfire, they emphasized that India must focus on fixing domestic fundamentals and addressing the China conundrum to derive meaningful value from the evolving global trade landscape.

  

• Investing in TB Vaccines Is Urgent for India and the Asian Region: Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

  Acknowledging India’s contribution to TB vaccine research, Dr. Swaminathan noted that the overall TB vaccine pipeline remains stagnant, with several candidates stuck in early trial phases for over a decade.