Reimagining Healthcare through Media, Technology, and a Smart Services platform for all.
Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular SurgeonCardiac, Thoracic & Vascular SurgeonDr. Nene has 28 years of experience as a surgeon in mitral valve repair, open and endovascular aortic surgery, thoracic oncology and robotic and minimally invasive approaches for heart and lung surgery and is licensed to practise in US & India... Learn More
Healthcare InnovatorHealthcare InnovatorNow along with his team, Dr. Nene is committed to helping people improve their lifestyles and increase lifespans with a new healthcare venture. The vision is to achieve this through precision, personalized health approaches using a combination of media, technology, and smart services... Learn More
Tech InnovatorTech InnovatorCreated the edutech platform, “Dance with Madhuri” to help people learn dance from the masters, anytime anywhere. With users from over 206 countries & presence on iOS, Android, the web and DTH networks (Tatasky, Videocon, Dish, Airtel), as well as offline schools… Learn More
Producer & StorytellerProducer & StorytellerA storyteller at heart, Dr. Nene co-founded RNM Moving Pictures a world-class, platform-agnostic, digital content company along with Madhuri Dixit Nene. The vision is simple: Give people access to world-class information, services, Amazon self publishing, and products from domain leaders… Learn More
Reimagining Healthcare through Media, Technology, and a Smart Services platform for all.
Your chai isn’t the villain. The temperature might be. ☕🔥
A new study following 977,282 UK adults for more than a decade found something worth letting cool for a minute:
People who preferred their drinks “very hot” had around 3× the risk of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) compared with those who drank them warm. And even after accounting for temperature, 6+ hot drinks a day was associated with a 71% higher SCC risk.
Important context: this was an observational study, so it shows an association—not proof that hot drinks directly cause cancer.
The takeaway is wonderfully simple:
Don’t fear chai. Don’t fear coffee. Just don’t drink them scalding.
Sip. Pause. Let it cool a little. ☕
Because sometimes the healthier habit isn’t giving something up. It’s just waiting a minute.
Are you a “drink it immediately” person or a “let it cool” person? 👇
Study: Papier et al., International Journal of Cancer, 2026.
Your toothbrush is not heart medicine. But your mouth may still be giving you clues worth listening to. 🦷❤️
Bleeding gums, inflammation and poor oral health shouldn’t be brushed off as “just dental.” The mouth and cardiovascular system share risk factors and inflammatory pathways — even though brushing itself has not been proven to prevent heart attacks.
The smarter message is simpler:
Take care of your mouth. Pay attention to persistent changes. And don’t treat any part of the body like it exists in isolation.
One of the most interesting heart stories this week isn’t about a drug that failed to lower a number. It did lower Lp(a). The surprise is that, in the topline results, this did not translate into a significant reduction in major cardiovascular events.
That raises an important question: when a biomarker improves but outcomes don’t, what are we really learning?
Not that Lp(a) is irrelevant. Not that testing is useless. But that cardiovascular disease is rarely a one-number story. Genetics, blood pressure, LDL, diabetes, smoking, inflammation, age and time all matter.
And because these are still topline results, the full trial data will matter enormously in understanding the “why.”
Treat the whole risk picture. Act earlier. Stay curious.
I am thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining The Next Gene – Biosciences Summit , Asia’s Largest Bioscience Summit, hosted by Masters’ Union , on 19th September in Gurugram.🧬
Join me alongside leading minds in biotechnology, CRISPR, drug discovery, and digital health as we explore the future of human health and longevity.
Use my code DRSHRIRAMNENE500 to register and get your pass.
For more details, visit @the_next_gene
See you at The Next Gene! 🧬
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Three decades of heart surgery taught one surgeon something most patients never hear until it's too late: the same 3 mistakes walk into an operating room, again and again.
Skipping breakfast. Sitting for 10+ hours straight. Calling 5 hours of sleep "enough."
Remarkable. I would go further and say that community, family friends are the critical links to a great life. It’s who you have on the journey that matters…
For more than 70 years, researchers have tried to protect brain cells after an ischemic stroke - with promising ideas repeatedly falling short in human trials.
Now, a Phase 3 trial of loberamisal has reported an unusually encouraging result: at 90 days, 69.7% of treated patients