NDTV Lifeline

Is hearing loss just an ear problem, or could it also affect the brain? This episode of NDTV Lifeline explores the growing link between untreated hearing loss, cognitive decline, and dementia, while experts explain the warning signs, latest technology, and why early intervention matters.

Your gut does much more than digest food. It influences your mood, sleep, immunity, and overall well-being. In this episode of NDTV Lifeline, we explore the science behind the gut-brain connection, bust common myths, and share expert-backed advice on improving gut health through everyday nutrition and lifestyle choices.

Heart disease often develops silently, but it can be detected before symptoms appear. This episode of NDTV Lifeline explores how non-invasive heart tests, early screening, and simple lifestyle changes are transforming heart care and helping prevent future cardiac events.

Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue - it is rapidly becoming a public health challenge.
In this episode of NDTV Lifeline with Ambika Singh Kahma, we explore how rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events are reshaping the spread of infectious diseases across India. Why is dengue no longer confined to the monsoon? How are changing weather patterns disrupting influenza seasons? And what can individuals, communities, and health systems do to prepare?

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Women live longer than men yet often spend more years living with illness. So why has healthcare historically overlooked women's unique needs? In this episode of NDTV Lifeline, we explore why women's health deserves its own lens. From puberty and menstruation to menopause, bone health, and ageing, experts unpack the gender data gap in medicine and why a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work.

Watch the full conversation to understand the challenges, myths, and the need for more inclusive healthcare for women.

For decades, metformin has been the backbone of diabetes treatment. It's affordable, trusted, and taken by millions of Indians every day. But suddenly, there's a new buzz in diabetes care. Weekly injections like Ozempic and Mounjaro are being called the "game‑changers". Is the old pill outdated? Are injections really better? And if so, better for whom and at what cost? We find out in this episode. 

Men die younger. They seek help later, and often, they don't seek help at all. From heart disease to diabetes, prostate issues to mental health. Men delay care until it's too late. As June marks the Men's health month, we look at why men ignore early warning signs and how that silence is costing lives.

Millions of people sleep every night but never truly rest. Their breathing stops without them knowing it. This is Sleep apnea. On NDTV Lifeline podcast, we decode sleep apnea. Why it happens, how it harms the body, and how timely treatment, including breathing support machines like CPAP and BiPAP, can be life changing, with Dr. Randeep Guleria- Chairman of the Institute of Internal Medicine & Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Director of Medanta Medical School.