Healthcare

The ‘sunshine vitamin’, has a long list of benefits from strengthening muscles to preventing cancers and optimising immunity. But a majority of us are not getting enough of it.

Fujifilm first launched its X-ray film in 1936 and went on to create the world’s first digital X-ray imaging system in 1983. Here's what revolutionising medical imaging in the healthcare ecosystem can do.

Renowned ENT surgeon Dr Jayant Gandhi and Dr Devangi Dalal have helped underprivileged children between the ages of 1 and 20 gain access to high-quality digital hearing aids, training and support, all free of cost.

On National Vaccination Day, here's how an old oil painting depicting three queens, who were part of the British Raj’s awareness campaign for the smallpox vaccine in India, is still making ripples today.

Ahmedabad-based Jahnvi Trivedi spent 15 years paying visits to doctors to identify the cause of her chronic and crippling period pain. She was eventually diagnosed with endometriosis, which affects 176 million women across the world.

Pune-based Amrit Kumar Bakhshy, former president of the Schizophrenia Awareness Association, talks about his daughter’s schizophrenia, his book on caregivers in India, and his role in helping draft the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017.

From hearts, tongues to bones, how Mumbai-based Anotomiz3D is using MRI scans to build affordable 3D anatomy models to eliminate risks and save lives.

Dr Bharat Vatwani and his wife, Dr Smitha, run the Shraddha Rehabilitation Foundation in Mumbai and Karjat, which aims to rescue and rehabilitate mentally ill patients off the roads, and reunite them with their families.

Shantanu Pathak, a Mumbai-based entrepreneur, was always motivated to work in the health-tech sector. But an unfortunate incident of a friend's high-risk pregnancy opened his eyes to the lack of access to quality pregnancy care -- a purpose he dedicated his life to. He is now being supported by the Marico Innovation Foundation to take his work forward.

Sudhir Wagamare spent almost two decades perfecting his expertise in innovating high-end paediatric and neonatal ventilators. It was during his B.Com course that Sudhir realised his potential to become an innovator, breaking the myth that only professional engineers could work on tech-based innovations. He is now being supported by the Marico Innovation Foundation to take his work forward.