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Friday, November 14, 2025
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Topic: Global healthcare

India reaffirms commitment to global health equity at 78th World Health Assembly

Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava represented India at the assembly and assured the country's stance under the theme 'One World for Health'.

Women’s health is a moral issue & an economic opportunity—worth $1 trillion

Despite comprising 49.7% of the world’s population, women’s health receives just 5% of global healthcare research and development funding.

What if 10% of global clinical trials included African patients? It could benefit society, economy

Clinical studies to assess the treatment of schizophrenia with paliperidone palmitate in Rwanda were pivotal to catalysing research and development in other mental health areas.

WHO moves to strengthen global health security with new amendments

Global health body nears agreement on amendments to strengthen response to future public health emergencies.

Young people around the world are becoming unhappier & what we can do about it

Sustained healthcare, education and social media reforms must be implemented to support young people.

Ceftriaxone, among India’s most prescribed antibiotics, ‘increasingly resistant’ against pathogens

Monocef, a popular brand of the drug, has been among top-selling medicines these last few months. Ceftriaxone is ‘watch’ antibiotic, with high potential for antimicrobial resistance. 

Turn patients into consumers. It will be a better model for healthcare services

It is crucial to view citizens not merely as beneficiaries but as consumers of medical services. It allows consumers to play a more proactive role in their health.

Covid-19 has changed our future. Here are six key issues of global healthcare in 2022

How we respond to new challenges while continuing to address the pandemic will be critical, Deloitte's new 2022 Global Health Care Outlook report says.

This is how AI will change how radiologists work

From ‘Terminator’ to ‘Black Mirror’, we’re inundated with the idea that machines are slowly replacing humankind. This could not be further from the truth.

World was unprepared for Covid despite warning signs, says global panel

Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) says next pandemic will be more damaging if steps not taken, and added it will take 500 years to recover from the current Covid loss.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.