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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Focus on infection control, Kangaroo mothercare has helped lower mortality rate at SNCUs to 7.6%’
Online software training sessions were also conducted for 14 medical colleges with Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) to further clarify the status of the sick newborns. While the number of sick
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Luapula’s 53 community schools get 223 toilets
Vision Africa Regional Network (VAREN) has built 223 toilets in 53 Community schools in Luapula province at a cost of 2.3 Million Kwacha. Organization Executive Director Jackson Mwenya says the toilet
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Wealthy but unhealthy: overweight and obesity in Asia and the Pacific- trends, costs, and policies for better health
<p>High rates of overweight and obesity in Asia and the Pacific seriously threaten people’s health and undermine the region’s prosperity warns this new book published by the Asian Development Bank. According to this book, obesity causes 12% of total health care expenditures or 0.78% of gross domestic product in the region.</p>
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26,619 kids died in 16 months
Welfare minister says government’s efforts are yet to show results. Nagpur: Women and child welfare minister, Pankaja Munde on Thursday admitted in legislative council that 26,619 infants and children
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Explorations of inequality: childhood immunization
This report takes a detailed look at the current status of childhood immunization in 10 priority countries: Afghanistan, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria,
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School sanitation in Odisha
Sanitation access in schools is important to keep children, especially girl children in school. It is also important to spread the culture of safe sanitation more widely, especially among the young. Using
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Dengue vaccine may not prevent diseases
Children who were not infected with the virus, suffered from severe dengue when they were given the vaccine. Hyderabad: The advisability of giving dengue vaccine to children not affected by the disease
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National Health Profile 2018
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare released the National Health Profile (NHP)-2018 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI). The National Health Profile covers demographic,
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End of Childhood report 2018: the many faces of exclusion
A new report released by Save the Children, a non-governmental organisation, has revealed that millions of children in Uganda are still out of school, dying before their fifth birthday, showing stunted
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Encephalitis alarm as six children die
Muzaffarpur: The deaths of six children suspected to be suffering from symptoms of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis in a span of 48 hours has set off alarms in the health department.