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Inside India's Gut Health Craze: Miracle Detox or Dangerous Fad?

1 week ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Vishal Singh

New Delhi: As gut health becomes India's newest wellness obsession, a controversial detox trend is making waves-and splitting expert opinion. From health-focused millennials to wellness-aware seniors, Indians are increasingly turning inward-literally. A 2023 survey by HealthifyMe revealed that 68 per cent of urban Indians now consider gut health their top wellness priority.
Too much sitting increases risk of future health problems in chest pain patients

2 weeks ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Keith Diaz

Columbia University New York: For patients hospitalised with chest pain, the amount of time they spend sedentary afterward is linked to a greater risk for more heart problems and death within a year. That's the key finding of a new peer-reviewed study my colleagues and I published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
CDSCO issues Cardio, Neuro devices revised classification draft; Seeks industry comments by month-end, ET HealthWorld

1 month ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Abhijeet Singh

The draft list issued by CDSCO includes 351 cardiovascular and 202 neurological-related medical devices. As per the notice, industry stakeholders must share their comments by April 30, 2025.
US Tariffs On Medical Devices: Indian Med Device makers face stiff test as US tariffs take effect, eyes diplomatic escape, ET HealthWorld

1 month ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com

US Tariffs On Medical Devices: Over the recent tariff announced by the US President, industry bodies in India have called the move a significant challenge to the sector's growth and stakeholders have voiced to explore bilateral routes for a balanced approach to serve mutual interest.
US Senate confirms Trump's Medicare and Medicaid nominee Oz

2 months ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Richard Cowan |Ahmed Aboulenein

Washington: The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted on Thursday 53-45 along party lines to confirm Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician nominated by President Donald Trump, to oversee government health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid. As Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Oz, who has never held public office, will oversee a wide-reaching agency with annual spending of $2.6 trillion that oversees health insurance for more than half of Americans.
HIV workers race to plug funding gaps after Trump USAID cuts

2 months ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Kim Harrisberg

Johannesburg: T arryn Lokotsch can see the U.S. aid money she desperately needs to help South African rape survivors sitting in her organisation's bank account, but she cannot touch a cent of it. Since U.S. President Donald Trump froze funds under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in January, even the donor-funded cars Lokotsch and her colleagues use to visit rape victims have sat idle.
Bidding war for UK healthcare REIT Assura heats up after new $1.96 billion bid

2 months ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Shashwat Awasthi |Aby Koilparambil

Bengaluru: British healthcare REIT Assura has received a 1.5 billion pound ($1.96 billion) indicative cash-and-stock bid from Primary Health Properties , above an earlier offer it had rejected, but below a U.S. consortium's all-cash bid. This is the seventh proposal in as many weeks fielded by Assura, which runs more than 600 healthcare properties with an investment value of more than 3 billion pounds, and counts Britain's state-backed National Health Service as a customer.
KKR nears deal to buy Japanese medical gear maker Topcon, sources say

2 months ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Makiko Yamazaki |Anirban Sen |Kane Wu

Tokyo: Private equity firm KKR is nearing a deal to acquire Japanese medical gear maker Topcon, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the latest sign of increased leveraged buyout activity in Japan. If the talks are successful, a deal could be signed in the coming days, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the discussions are confidential. The price being discussed has not been disclosed yet.
HPV infection linked to higher heart risk

2 months ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Nancy Lapid

New York: Human papillomavirus, along with causing several types of cancer, appears to significantly increase the risk of heart disease, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session in Chicago this week.
Gates warns White House he can't fill shortfalls in US global health funding

2 months ago | health.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Jennifer Rigby |Jonathan S. Landay

London: Bill Gates is personally lobbying Trump administration officials to keep funding health programs worldwide, from childhood vaccination to HIV treatment, and warning that his foundation cannot step in to fill gaps, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Gates, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder turned global health philanthropist, met with the National Security Council as well as Republican and Democratic lawmakers in recent weeks to press that case, the sources said.