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Cycles, pregnancy, menopause, and the care around them.
Formal breast self-examination as a cancer-screening tool has been de-emphasised in Western guidelines because studies didn't show it reduced breast cancer mortality. But breast awareness — knowing what your breasts…
Fertility treatment generates dense documentation across months to years — cycle after cycle of monitoring, medication, procedures, and emotional weight. A well-organised record makes the specialist visits more…
Perimenopause — the years leading to the last menstrual period — can last 4-10 years. Symptoms are variable, often dismissed, and rarely tracked systematically. Yet the changes have real consequences for daily life…
The immediate postpartum period gets attention, but the six months after delivery are when subtle problems compound if not tracked. Postpartum depression, breastfeeding challenges, contraception decisions, delayed…
A pregnancy generates more medical documentation than most non-hospitalised episodes of care. Nine months of visits, scans, blood work, weight tracking, symptoms. A well-organised record makes each visit efficient,…
A menstrual cycle is not just a fertility signal. It is a monthly readout of hormonal, metabolic, and reproductive health. Cycle changes often signal PCOS, thyroid problems, stress patterns, or perimenopause years…
The decade after menopause is when several long-term health trajectories are set. Cardiovascular risk, previously lower than men's, catches up and eventually surpasses. Bone density drops sharply in the first 5…
The health of both parents in the six months before conception influences the pregnancy more than any intervention during it. A pre-pregnancy check identifies conditions that need optimising, updates vaccinations…
Every Indian health insurance policy has a waiting period for pre-existing conditions — typically 2-4 years — during which no claim related to those conditions is payable. It's the single most-litigated part of…
Corticosteroids — prednisolone, dexamethasone, hydrocortisone, and topical versions — are among medicine's most powerful drugs. They also carry more common and serious side effects than most patients realise. In…
Polycystic ovary syndrome affects around 10% of Indian women of reproductive age and is often diagnosed years after symptoms began. Once diagnosed, treatment is highly individual — some women need weight management,…
More than half of Indian women aged 15-49 are anaemic, per the National Family Health Survey. Most are told to take iron for a few months, feel slightly better, stop, and drift back into anaemia within a year. The…
Major life events restructure a family's health care in ways that a record system needs to keep up with. Marriage combines two people's records into one family. Pregnancy adds intense record-keeping for a specific…
Every AI prescription reader worth using produces a draft, not a decision. The draft is the AI's best guess at what the doctor wrote; the decision is yours, made in 90 seconds by comparing the draft to the photograph…
The Ayurvedic idea of ritucharya — adjusting food, sleep, and daily routine to the season — sounds mystical when described in Sanskrit and mundane when described in modern language. The mundane version is often…
There is a version of the conversation about Ayurveda where every condition can be helped, and there is a version where none can. Both are wrong. For chronic mild conditions, thoughtful traditional practice…
You hand the prescription over. The pharmacist reaches for the branded strip on the top shelf, punches the price into the machine, and hands you a bill. What you do not see is the shelf on the right, where the same…
A pregnancy generates more paperwork than most people expect. Nine months of monthly visits, four or five ultrasound scans, three sets of blood work, and a delivery-preparation file that gets consulted at three in…
A pregnancy that begins with a genetic surprise is a much harder pregnancy than one that begins with a plan. India carries a large share of the world's rare inherited disease — an estimated 25 to 30 million people…