About this app

The Medindia Mobile App gives you instant access to almost a million pages of content on health and wellness from one of the top health websites in the world on your smartphone.


View articles and get the latest news on health, medical conditions & diseases,lifestyle & wellness, diet-and-nutrition, as well as access hundreds of interactive health calculators, polls, quizzes, animations, slides, videos and much more. In addition, browse and search one of the most comprehensive databases on generic and brand name drugs, pricing, usage and side effects. You can also search a database over 200,000 doctors in India, and find details on hospitals, chemists, medical colleges, pharmaceutical companies, ambulance services, blood banks, eye banks, and NGOs.


Key Features:


Health News: Read the latest news and special reports on health. Browse by consumer health categories or by medical condition. Search from an archive of over 135,000 news items by keyword, category or condition. Updated daily with 40 to 50 news stories and special reports added every day.


Diseases & Medical Conditions: Access information on medical diseases and conditions from A to Z, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and FAQs in easy to understand language.


Special Reports & Articles: In-depth reports on health topics, lifestyle and wellness, diet and nutrition, fitness and exercise, beauty tips, home remedies, and alternative medicine.


Health Calculators: Access over 129interactive health calculators that range from calculating your BMI to computing the calories needed to lose weight and a mini-health check-up.


Drug Information and Pricing: Look up information on thousands of drugs including generic names, trade and brand names, pricing (in India), manufacturers, usage and side effects.


Animations, Slideshows, Videos: Browse and view animations on everything from Acoustic Neuroma to Yoga for health.


Healthcare Directories: Search and find doctors by specialization, city, address or name from a directory of over 200,000 doctors. Also search and find pharmacies, hospitals, surgical suppliers, ambulance services andpharmaceutical companies. (Data is currently mostly from India but will soon include US doctors and companies).

Nutrition Facts: Get all the nutrition facts including total calories, carbohydrates, fat, protein, essential vitamins, calcium, iron & more for over 8100 food items ranging from Acron Stew to Yams and everything else.


Plus access to hundreds of health quizzes, polls, amazing and interesting health facts and much more.

New features

Bugs have been fixed to improve the app's performance.

App Permissions

Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to read from external storage.