Dietary guidelines for India 2024
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
Child Health
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Late-pregnancy dysglycemia in obese pregnancies after negative testing for gestational diabetes and risk of future childhood overweight: An interim analysis from a longitudinal mother–child cohort study
<p>Maternal pre-conception obesity is a strong risk factor for childhood overweight. However, prenatal mechanisms and their effects in susceptible gestational periods that contribute to this risk are not
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UNICEF: Two million children in DRC are acutely malnourished
The UN children’s agency says at least two million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo face death from malnutrition unless aid reaches them. Al Jazeera went to Kitwit where about 25,000 displaced
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State to form task force to curb child obesity
The government also plans to set up dedicated metabolic institutes in state-run hospitals for doctors to study obesity-related ailments. Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has decided to constitute
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Africa: Global Hunger Relief Back-Tracking, Especially in War Zones
World efforts to lower hunger to zero by 2030 are being negated by warfare and climate change, warn nutritionists. Their latest global index categorizes 51 nations, mainly in Asia and Africa, where hunger
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2018 Global Hunger Index: forced migration and hunger
The 2018 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the world has made gradual, long-term progress in reducing overall hunger, but this progress has been uneven. Areas of severe hunger and undernutrition stubbornly
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10 years after the Commission on Social Determinants of Health: social injustice is still killing on a grand scale
<p>In 2008, WHO launched the final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) that concluded “social injustice is killing people on a grand scale”. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Social_Determinants_Health.pdf"
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Why tackling polio virus 2 resurgence should be priority for India
The government has set up a high-level task force to determine how Wild Polio Virus 2 (WPV2) traces surfaced in the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) batches made by Ghaziabad-based Biomed, which is facing criminal
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Contaminated vaccines put India’s ‘polio free’ status at risk
At least three batches of polio vaccines containing 1.5 lakh vials have been found contaminated with type 2 polio virus, putting at risk India’s “polio free” status as children born after April 2016 —
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Diphtheria deaths: Specialist doctor posts vacant at hospital, says NDMC
“The North corporation is under acute financial crunch. Not many people want to work in corporation hospitals where the salary remains delayed for months, especially at a time when the private sector is
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Atlas of African Health Statistics 2018: universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals in the WHO African Region
The 2018 edition of the Atlas of African health statistics describes the health situation and trends in the WHO African Region. Analysis is based on standardized data from the World Health Organization