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Patients are bringing AI diagnoses and prescriptions to clinics: What does it mean for doctors?Artificial intelligence is changing healthcare. Patients now use AI for diagnoses, sometimes challenging doctors. This creates pressure and...
18 Aug, 2025, 04.57 PM IST
'Sickest generation': What RFK Jr's report says about American children and how to 'make America healthy again'The White House has released a report, spearheaded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., highlighting a public health crisis among Ame...
22 May, 2025, 11.46 PM IST
Renowned psychiatrist Dr Thomas Szasz’s video on ADHD resurfaces: 'No behavior or misbehavior is a disease'An old video of psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz has resurfaced, sparking debate on mental health diagnoses. Szasz criticized the use of psych...
24 Mar, 2025, 06.02 PM IST
Can ADHD be diagnosed with a two-minute test? Here is what experts sayA two-minute test by WHO and Harvard claims to determine ADHD with six questions, drawing both support and criticism. While some find it a ...
21 Mar, 2025, 04.49 PM IST
Are you really obese? Experts challenge BMI as only measure of obesity, propose new guidelines for better healthA new report from global experts calls for redefining obesity beyond the traditional body mass index (BMI) measurement. The experts propose...
15 Jan, 2025, 11.50 PM IST
Are you really obese or it is a false diagnosis? Scientists say obesity needs a new definitionExperts recommend reevaluating the diagnosis and treatment of obesity by moving beyond BMI to a more comprehensive health assessment. They ...
15 Jan, 2025, 07.31 PM IST
AI-supported breast tumour screening detected more cancers, cut radiologists' workload: studyCalled the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence (MASAI) trial, the study said it was the first randomised controlled trial ev...
02 Aug, 2023, 04.36 PM IST
Why are too many older adults being told they have kidney disease?A growing cadre of physicians are combating what they call an over-diagnosis of this condition in the elderly.
05 Nov, 2021, 08.41 AM IST
Theranos’s empty promise to cure a fake problemElizabeth Holmes employed a conspiratorial tone, painting herself as a preventive medicine crusader going up against the medical establishm...
27 Mar, 2019, 09.29 AM IST
Add a dose of Harvard to the Bezos-Buffett-Dimon health mixOne of Atul Gawande's targets as the head of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMogran's new healthcare venture will be health insurer profit...
21 Jun, 2018, 03.41 PM IST
Is Kerala experiencing an over-diagnosis of thyroid cancer?One constant factor that plays in the minds of the lay population is the presence of high-background radiation that is seen in large parts ...
16 Apr, 2017, 12.09 PM IST
Breast cancer to grow 50 per cent by 2030The number of breast cancer cases diagnosed in the US in 2030 will double due to several factors, including changing lifestyle and increasi...
21 Apr, 2015, 05.14 PM IST
- WHO for regulation of India's '5-star' private hospitals
The India chief of World Health Organization today favoured regulation of private hospitals and tax-based financing of universal health cov...
13 Sep, 2012, 07.07 PM IST