Health, wellbeing, Ayurveda, yoga and faith: evidence-aware reporting on the body, the mind and spiritual practice for Indian readers.
167 articles
In 2002 one study drove women off hormone therapy. Two decades later, the FDA and America's gynecologists have changed course, and many women are asking what they were never told.
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Four US medical societies want heart-risk assessment to start around ages 8 to 15 and to follow women through pregnancy and menopause. Pregnancy warning signs that are more common in South Asian women are part of the new framework.
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What a physicist's discovery about light and a psychologist's struggle with suffering reveal about the possibility of change.
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Waking at 3 a.m. with a racing mind? Cortisol's early-morning rise and lighter second-half sleep explain most of it — the liver-glycogen story is only a
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Ayurveda's vamkukshi advises resting on the left side after meals. Modern reflux studies back the left-side habit, but the heart and lymph claims don't hold up.
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From ashrams to Instagram: how yoga became India's most successful cultural export, what was gained in translation, and who captures the value.
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Groundwater falling a meter a year, 30-40% of treated water leaking from pipes. India's urban water crisis is already here — not a future warning.
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Educated urban Indians under 35 are reading the Gita and Upanishads not as religion but as philosophy — a selective intellectual recovery of Hindu texts.
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India's corporate hospitals rival the world's best while rural primary care collapses. Why the paradox persists — and what would actually fix it.
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India solved calorie hunger but not protein hunger. What national surveys show about protein intake, stunting, and why vegetarian diets need diversity to work.
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Ayurveda is going global — ashwagandha in every supplement aisle. What's genuinely evidence-backed, what's marketing, and what respectful integration looks
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By 2050, one in five Indians will be over 60. Pensions are fragmented, geriatric care an afterthought. The dividend is maturing — and India isn't ready.
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Purdue engineers built a smart drug capsule that survives the stomach and releases medication directly into the colon — a potentially cheaper, targeted
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Naperville's Happy Feet Walker's Club helps members build daily walking habits — and friendships — with group walks and new routes. Here's how to join.
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NASA's $18,000 bed-rest study at UTMB Galveston: 70 days in bed to understand how spaceflight changes the body — and how to counter it.
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Suchitra Sharma meets Kumari Shibulal, whose Sarojini Damodaran Foundation funds full scholarships for underprivileged students across India.
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In January 2015, five Disneyland workers contracted measles — including two who were vaccinated — as California's outbreak passed 53 confirmed cases.
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No food melts belly fat on its own — but eggs, oats, dals, nuts, and leafy greens make the calorie equation easier. Suchitra Sharma on eating for a flatter
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In 2014, 90-year-old Fort Lauderdale activist Arnold Abbott was arrested under a new city ordinance for doing what he had done for decades: feeding the
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You can't 'boost' your immune system like a phone battery — and trying can backfire. What actually keeps immune function working: sleep, movement, food, and
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