Emergency & Help
24/7 Emergency & General Advisory
🚨 24/7 Medical Emergency
Non-Emergency Advisory
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Mon–Sat
For appointments & general queries.
24/7 Emergency & General Advisory
🚨 24/7 Medical Emergency
Non-Emergency Advisory
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Mon–Sat
For appointments & general queries.
Common questions about Lifestyle articles on DOCTAR
Search in Lifestyle
Find articles by topic, doctor name, or keyword.
Showing 12 articles
Most of us think of air pollution as a lung problem, but the evidence tells a bigger story — it strains the heart, affects children's growing bodies, and can complicate pregnancy. This article breaks down what polluted air actually does inside the body, who faces the highest risk, and what practical
Health insurance premiums in India have jumped sharply in 2026, with some policyholders seeing hikes well above 10%. Medical inflation, higher claims, rising senior citizen risk pools, and a recent GST change on individual policies are all playing a part.
Junior doctors work long hours, often alone, often at night, and often without proper backup. This article looks at why hospital safety for junior doctors keeps slipping through the cracks — violent incidents, unsafe duty rooms, poor reporting systems, and the culture of silence around it.
The RG Kar Hospital case hasn't gone away. Two years after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata shook Bengal, the legal fight is still moving through courts. Sanjay Roy is serving a life sentence, but the CBI wants the death penalty, and that appeal is still pending. Meanwhile,.
NEET PG 2026 is finally official — NBEMS has confirmed August 30 as the exam date, after months of speculation among MBBS graduates. This piece walks through what actually matters right now: the registration and admit card timeline, who is eligible, the internship completion cutoff that trips up a s
Ozempic and Mounjaro have gone from prescription-pad names to household terms almost overnight. Search interest in GLP-1 weight loss drugs is climbing across the world, driven by celebrity mentions, TikTok before-and-afters, and genuine medical breakthroughs in obesity care. But there's a gap betwee
AI is quietly showing up in more corners of healthcare — reading scans, flagging skin lesions, spotting patterns in lab reports. Some of it works surprisingly well. Some of it doesn't.
GLP-1 medications — a class that includes Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound — mimic a natural gut hormone to lower blood sugar and reduce appetite. Originally approved for type 2 diabetes, this drug class has expanded into treatment for obesity, heart disease, sleep apnea, and more, with new o
Does intermittent fasting weight loss actually last? A 2026 one-year follow-up study says yes — people who did just 12 weeks of time-restricted eating kept more weight off a full year later than those who got standard diet advice alone. But a separate Cochrane review of nearly 2,000 adults found int
Scientists at the University of Cambridge tested 39 common sweeteners against 25 species of gut bacteria in the lab. About three-quarters of the sweeteners changed how at least one bacterial species grew, and effects got stronger — or weaker — when sweeteners were combined with medications, caffeine
A study of nearly 13,000 Brazilian adults found that people who consumed the most artificial sweeteners had noticeably faster memory and thinking decline over eight years than those who consumed the least. The effect was strongest in adults under 60 and in people with diabetes. Researchers stress th
Learn about safe skin tag removal in Kolkata, including causes, treatment options, recovery, risks, and when to consult a dermatologist.
