
🖥️ GE HealthCare's "View" gets FDA clearance. Allowing radiologists access to diagnostic imaging from anywhere, via the cloud. (PharmaBiz)

👫 Not just for girls? Bengaluru oncologists urge HPV vaccination for boys too as HPV-linked throat and mouth cancers rise in men. (IndianExpress)
🚬 Stroke surge in young patients: Cocaine & amphetamines >2X risk (under-55s hit hardest), per Cambridge meta-analysis of 100M+. (TheGuardian)
🌡️ Pre-summer heat triggers hormonal havoc: Hot flashes, fatigue and anxiety on the rise for women. (IndiaTV)

🚫 No more obesity ads during cricket breaks? CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation) clamps down on GLP-1 promotion, making drugs like Ozempic prescription-only ahead of the generic wave in India. (TheHindu)
📋 217 of 804 registered organ transplant hospitals failed to report data to the National Registry Portal in 2025. (TheHindu)
⚠️ Eli Lilly warns third-party compounded versions of GLP-1 drug Zepbound contain an impurity of unknown toxicity, urging the FDA to do a nationwide recall. (Reuters)

🇮🇳 India
🕊️ India’s Supreme Court allows life-support withdrawal in the Harish Rana case, marking a pivotal moment for passive euthanasia and the right to die with dignity. (TOI)
🩸 India’s Supreme Court rejects a national menstrual leave petition, warning it could make women less hireable. Progress or penalty for women at work? (BBC)
⚖️ Centre tells the Supreme Court it will maintain the ban on blood donations by transgender people, gay men and sex workers, citing India’s HIV risk data. (TheHindu)
💧 After Indore, sewage-pipeline contamination across Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat has hospitalised hundreds and killed at least 24. (ETHealth)
📊 NMC mandates digital tracking of patient visits in medical college hospitals to improve data accuracy and transparency. (ETHealth)
🌏 Global
🦠 Drug-resistant infections head towards 8M deaths/year by 2050, yet the pipeline has shrunk 35% as Big Pharma abandons research for more profitable drugs. (TheGuardian)
🏅 Global first: Singapore's health authority (HSA) just got the highest possible rating (ML4) from the WHO for how well it regulates medical devices (PharmaBiz)

🇮🇳 India
🏥 SuperHealth's SuperSurgery launches in Bengaluru with fixed-price, zero-commission surgeries at 50% below corporate hospital rates. (ExpressHealthcare)
🔬 Practo founder Shashank ND is back with Cent, raising $5M to build an AI platform that detects cancer, cardiac and metabolic conditions early. (ET)
🌏 Global
💻 Hacked and hijacked! Iran-linked hackers wiped 200,000 systems across US medtech giant Stryker's offices in 79 countries, disrupting surgical supply chains at hospitals globally. (TOI)
✈️ Gulf patient boom busted! Middle East conflict halts flows to India; Apollo, Fortis, Manipal eye Southeast Asia & Africa. (ETHealth)
🧪 Lab tech consolidation: Agilent Technologies will acquire Biocare Medical for $950 million, strengthening its pathology diagnostics business. (PharmaBiz)
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