India is facing a silent yet significant kidney care crisis. With over 220,000 new end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients added every year, the need for 34 million dialysis treatments is created, and the supply-demand gap continues to widen. Today, the country has barely 50,000 dialysis machines to serve a population that requires more than double … Read more
Tech giant Microsoft, recently hit with a fresh round of layoffs, has developed a new medical AI tool that performs better than human doctors at complex health diagnoses, creating a “path to medical superintelligence”. The Microsoft AI team shared research that demonstrated how AI can sequentially investigate and solve medicine’s most complex diagnostic challenges—cases that … Read more
Bengaluru: Healthcare insurance provider Medi Assist Insurance TPA Private Limited (“Medi Assist TPA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Medi Assist Healthcare Services Limited, has completed its acquisition of a 100% stake in Paramount Health Services & Insurance TPA Pvt. Ltd. (“Paramount TPA”). The acquisition is indicated to add ₹4,000 crore in health premiums under administration. … Read more
New York: Well-known AI chatbots can be configured to routinely answer health queries with false information that appears authoritative, complete with fake citations from real medical journals, Australian researchers have found. Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be easily deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high volumes, they warned in … Read more
Imagine practising a surgery on a virtual version of your body before doctors operate on the real you. That’s not science fiction anymore; it’s happening in India. As quoted by TOI, senior heart transplant surgeon Dr K R Balakrishnan now makes a stop at IIT Madras before performing surgeries on complicated heart patients. At the … Read more
In a statement that straddles science fiction and near-future reality, Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang has revealed he’s putting off parenthood—for now. But not because of career demands or personal timing. His reason? He’s waiting for Elon Musk’s Neuralink to become mainstream. Yes, Wang wants his future children to be among the first humans enhanced … Read more
One evening, feeling overwhelmed, 24-year-old Delhi resident Nisha Popli typed, “You’re my psychiatrist now,” into ChatGPT. Since then, she’s relied on the AI tool to process her thoughts and seek mental support. “I started using it in late 2024, especially after I paused therapy due to costs. It’s been a steady support for six months … Read more
When Naman Gosalia’s father suffered a sudden heart attack without any prior symptoms or abnormal reports, it was a moment that shattered assumptions. Fit, active, and medically “normal” — he didn’t fit the profile of someone at risk. But that single emergency became the beginning of something much larger: AnginaX, an AI-powered cardiology assistant that … Read more
The pandemic was pivotal to healthcare’s digital transformation. Overnight, locked-down populations switched to telemedicine to consult their doctors. The pharmaceuticals industry leveraged the computing power of advanced digital technologies – cloud computing, machine learning and advanced analytics – to crash vaccine development timelines. India used its vast digital public infrastructure to manage the world’s largest … Read more
You don’t always hear the warning signs of a failing heart, but what if your watch could? India is facing a silent cardiac crisis. Heart diseases are claiming more lives here than ever before, with 272 out of every 100,000 people succumbing to it, more than the global average of 235. With heart-related conditions rising … Read more