OnlyMyHealth

About OnlyMyHealth

OnlyMyHealth is an Indian health and wellness website based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, publishing at onlymyhealth.com. Founded in 2009, it operates as a brand of the Jagran group — launched by MMI Online Limited, the internet division of Jagran Prakashan Limited, and now part of Jagran New Media's portfolio of digital properties. The site publishes health and lifestyle content in Hindi, English and Tamil, covering disease management, fitness, diet and nutrition, home remedies, parenting, beauty and healthcare news, with content verified by health experts.

Launch by the Jagran group

OnlyMyHealth.com was launched in beta in 2009 by MMI Online, the internet division of Jagran Prakashan Limited, the publisher of the Dainik Jagran newspaper group. The launch was announced by afaqs! with the headline "Jagran Prakashan launches health and lifestyle portal Onlymyhealth.com", noting that the online health-information category was still nascent in India and that few large health portals operated in the country. At launch the site carried about 10,000 articles and offered information on medicine, diseases, lifestyle, yoga, alternative-medicine therapies, parenting, pregnancy and children's health, alongside videos, slideshows, recipes and directories of doctors and hospitals. MMI Online had tied up with Harvard Medical School as a content partner, and MediaNama's report on the launch noted that the site was available in both English and Hindi, with content tailored differently for the two audiences.

MMI Online and corporate ownership

OnlyMyHealth is described on its own about page as a product of MMI Online Ltd, characterised as a strategic online division of Jagran Prakashan, one of India's leading media conglomerates. MMI Online was founded in October 2008 as an incubation centre for new online business ideas, and it also ran Jagran Junction, a bilingual blogging platform. Today OnlyMyHealth sits within Jagran New Media, the group's digital arm, which lists it as its leading health website in three languages. The corporate lineage connects the site to one of India's largest newspaper groups, giving it the backing of an established media conglomerate active in print, radio and digital platforms.

Content verticals

The website publishes across a wide range of health and lifestyle topics: disease and symptom guides, diet and weight-loss advice, fitness, home remedies, pregnancy and parenting, beauty and haircare, and national and international health news. Its about page states that every article on the site is verified by a health expert, and that its panel of experts spans dieticians and nutritionists to paediatricians and cardiologists, allowing readers to hear directly from specialists. The site also runs interactive tools, communities and tailored advice features, positioning itself as a complete destination for health and lifestyle information rather than a news-only portal.

Languages: Hindi, English and Tamil

From its launch, OnlyMyHealth has published in English and Hindi, reflecting the bilingual strategy of the Jagran group. A Tamil-language section was introduced in August 2023, extending the site to a third language and to readers in Tamil Nadu and the Tamil diaspora. The multilingual approach is central to the site's positioning: health information in India is consumed overwhelmingly in regional languages, and the site's growth strategy has been to serve readers in the languages they are most comfortable with. The Wikipedia entry on the site lists its available languages as Hindi, English and Tamil, with its headquarters given as Uttar Pradesh, India.

Reach and audience

The site's own media materials have claimed close to 14 million unique users, citing Comscore data for April 2023, and describe it as a decade-old website trusted by readers for their health needs. Third-party reporting noted a 35 per cent increase in monthly traffic within the health category in April 2024. Jagran New Media, the site's parent digital arm, reported a reach of over 97.5 million users across its properties as of March 2024, publishing more than 7,000 stories and 40 videos a day across its portfolio, which includes jagran.com, naidunia.com, inextlive.com, punjabijagran.com, gujaratijagran.com, english.jagran.com, the women's portal herzindagi.com, the education site jagranjosh.com, the fact-checking site vishvasnews.com and the gaming vertical jagranplay.com.

HealthCare Heroes Conclave and Awards

OnlyMyHealth organises the HealthCare Heroes Conclave & Awards, an event recognising contributions to healthcare in India. The inaugural edition was held in October 2020 with a focus on COVID-19 response efforts, and Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan attended as a guest. The fourth edition of the conclave was held in February 2024. The awards programme has become a recurring property for the brand, bringing together healthcare professionals, policymakers and industry figures, and generating event content that feeds back into the site's editorial output.

Awareness campaigns and partnerships

In May 2023 the website collaborated with HerZindagi, Jagran New Media's women's portal, to host an awareness campaign ahead of Menstrual Hygiene Day, focused on menstrual-hygiene education and the societal taboos surrounding it. The collaboration illustrates how the group's digital properties cross-promote health and social campaigns across their audiences. The site has also run content-marketing and influencer-content offerings for advertisers, reflecting the commercial side of a health publisher whose readership is attractive to health and lifestyle goods manufacturers, over-the-counter drug brands, hospitals and doctors.

Editorial leadership

The site's editorial operations are led within Jagran New Media's health and lifestyle team; Wikipedia's entry on the site names Megha Mamgain as Managing Editor of Health & Lifestyle at Jagran New Media. The editorial workflow emphasises expert verification, with the site's about page stating that its team works to keep articles updated with new research and helpful information, and that a panel of medical specialists reviews content. This expert-led model is presented as the site's answer to the credibility challenges of online health information, where unverified advice can have real consequences for readers.

Position in India's digital health media

OnlyMyHealth entered a market that, at its launch in 2009, had few dedicated Indian health portals — contemporaries included NDTVDoctor.com, MedIndia and Bolohealth.com. Over more than fifteen years it has grown into one of the country's most-visited health websites, backed by a legacy media group and operating in three languages. Its trajectory reflects the broader shift of health-information consumption in India from Western portals to domestic publishers producing expert-verified content in Indian languages, a shift the site's founders anticipated when they launched it into what was then a nascent category.

Content formats and directories

From its launch, OnlyMyHealth has published in multiple formats beyond text articles. The beta version offered videos, slideshows and recipes related to its health topics, along with online directories of doctors and hospitals — features aimed at making the site a practical utility rather than a reading-only portal. Its about page describes interactive tools, tailored advice and community features that let users engage with content on diet, weight loss, disease and symptoms, and parenting. The site's media materials describe it as a complete and holistic destination for a better, healthier life, and its expert panel — spanning dieticians, nutritionists, paediatricians and cardiologists — is presented as the mechanism by which every article is verified before publication.

Advertising and monetisation

From the outset, OnlyMyHealth was designed to be monetised primarily through advertising. At launch, MMI Online chief executive Sukirti Gupta told afaqs! that the company saw a rich base of advertisers ready to reach health audiences online — manufacturers of health and lifestyle goods, over-the-counter drugs, hospitals and doctors. The site's media materials describe content-marketing solutions and influencer-content offerings for brands, alongside conventional display advertising. This advertiser base reflects the commercial logic of health publishing: a readership actively researching health decisions is valuable to the companies that sell health products and services.