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Saturday, January 3, 2026
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Topic: Healthcare

18% Indians require assistive care solutions, says former DGHS Dr. R K Srivastava

He added that these solutions were to improve the quality of life and social inclusion of the elderly, long-term hospital patients and individuals with congenital or acquired disabilities.

How to know when someone is having a seizure–and how you can help in first critical minutes

For some people, seizure is a purely internal sensation. To an untrained observer, it may appear as though nothing’s wrong.

African-American women experience more pregnancy complications. Here’s why that needs to change

The long history of obstetric racism and the violation of Black women’s bodies contributes to their mistrust of the healthcare system.

Health insurance seeing a tectonic shift. Young adults moving away from state-funded systems

This transformation isn't just critical – it's inescapable and will shape the future of health insurance as we know it.

Too many corpses? Medical colleges face problem of plenty as more Indians go the ‘deh daan’ way

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Tech changing healthcare, need ‘uniform, progressive regulations’, FICCI report urges govt

Report by FICCI and consultancy firm KPMG says ‘new-age healthcare’ models offering patients more control over health and wellness management, health data and choice of providers.

‘20 ICU beds & 613 admissions, sign of statewide crisis’: Advocacy group’s report on Nanded deaths

Fact-finding team of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan visited the DSCGMC hospital where 24 patients died in 24 hours last month. Report says these deaths 'just tip of iceberg'.

Why are so many people dying in Maharashtra govt hospitals? A ‘half-hearted’ solution & same old story

14 people died in 24 hrs at Ghati govt hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, one of the Maharashtra public healthcare facilities that have courted headlines over a suspicious number of patient fatalities.

Tata Memorial Centre-led project makes waves with promise to cut cancer drug costs by up to 99%

23 hospitals from National Cancer Grid, a network of over 250 cancer centres, pilot ‘pooled procurement’ to improve negotiability for high-value oncology and supportive-care drugs.

What are Biden’s Medicare drug price negotiations & how they may influence countries like India

US govt has unveiled names of first 10 drugs whose prices will be subjected to negotiations between Medicare & manufacturers, amid massive pushback by the big pharma lobby.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.