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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Diphtheria: delay in procurement of antitoxin blamed for deaths
‘Tiny bodies wrapped in sheets are taken from wards daily, beds occupied immediately’ Delay in the procurement of life-saving vials of antitoxins, for treatment of diphtheria-related complications,
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Diphtheria cases on the rise, but infertility rumours affect vaccination
Greater Noida: With diphtheria claiming the lives of at least three children and affecting two others in Greater Noida, the Gautam Budh Nagar health department is on its toes. However, despite the department’s
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UN agency launches innovative, interactive advertisement in fight against hunger
UN agency launches innovative, interactive advertisement in fight against hunger The UN World Food Programme on Monday took its campaign to fight world hunger to a global cinema audience with an innovative,
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Diphtheria death toll in Delhi hospitals rises to 18, mayor sets up panel
The death toll of children from diphtheria at municipal hospitals in north-west Delhi has risen to 18, even as the area's mayor has set up a panel to look into it, officials said on Sunday. Twelve deaths
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Roadmap towards ending TB in children and adolescents
A new action plan outlining measures to prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents was launched by global tuberculosis (TB) leadership in advance of the United Nations General Assembly
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About 8,02,000 infant deaths reported in India in 2017: UN
About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in India in 2017, the lowest in five years, according to the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME). A new UNIGME report
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Levels & trends in child mortality report 2018
About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in India in 2017, the lowest in five years, according to the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME). A new UNIGME report said
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Future impacts of environmental factors on achieving the SDG target on child mortality: a synergistic assessment
An estimated 26% of current global child deaths is attributable to diverse and modifiable environmental factors, addressed under multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study assesses future
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State to take up pending Mental and Health Policy draft
PANJIM: Goa government has assured to expeditiously look into the pending draft report on the Mental and Health Policy, released by Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights in February this
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Starvation: a weapon of war that could kill 590,000 children by the end of 2018
Starvation being used as a weapon of war has become the new normal, according to Save the Children. Its analysis shows more than half a million infants in conflict zones could die of malnutrition by the