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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Paralytic poliomyelitis during the pre-, peri- and post-suspension periods of a polio immunization campaign
A total of 744 paralytic poliomyelitis patients (0
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Traditional medicine, delays and hospital mortality of children under five years of age in the rural district of Kigoma,Tanzania
The use of traditional medicine in the treatment of 596 children aged 0
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Migration of bisphenol A into water from polycarbonate baby bottles during microwave heating
A comprehensive migration database was established for bisphenol A from polycarbonate baby bottles into water during exposure to microwave heating. Eighteen different brands of polycarbonate baby bottles
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What ails the state's health department
Despite huge investments in the health sector and vast manpower deployed, Uttar Pradesh has become a cauldron of diseases. Every second child in the state is under the threat of being attacked by diseases like encephalitis, measles, polio, dengue, malaria, tuberculosis, not to talk of diseases like diarrhoea of which no one keeps a record, but which has a high mortality rate.
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Puff mongers
Those who say that advertisements have little role in luring people to smoking need to think again. A recent Indo- us study, conducted on 11,642 sixth and eighth graders in Delhi and Tamil Nadu found that nearly 50 per cent of the kids had seen and remembered a tobacco advertisement. More than 400 students had a favourite tobacco ad while 238 of them could recall a brand name. The study was
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Women SHGs run mid-day meal schemes in Orissa schools
School teachers in many parts of the country find the government
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Europe battles with obesity
The past 4 years has seen several legislative developments to tackle Europe's growing obesity problem including food labelling, controls on junk-food advertising to children, and bans on fizzy drinks in school vending machines. But critics say they are not enough.
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Govt to hike spend in child-nutrition plan
Himanshi Dhawan | TNN With child malnutrition levels stagnant at 46% for the past 10 years, the government has been forced to restructure its programme for nutritional intervention for children between 0-6 years. If approved by the Union cabinet, the government will spend an average Rs 4.21 per beneficiary per day, up from Rs 2 per day. The restructured Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) will be implemented in mission mode under a National ICDS Mission Directorate and increase financial powers at the grassroots level.
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Canada moves to protect babies from chemical
A debate is raging in North America over the safety of bisphenol A
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WHO awaiting report on efficacy of human rotavirus vaccine
M. Dinesh Varma Findings may help to include it in immunisation drive across the world Rotavirus common cause of severe diarrhoea Nearly 6 lakh die worldwide every year CHENNAI: The soon-to-be-released findings of a final-phase efficacy study on a vaccine against rotavirus, one of the commonest causes of enteric infection in children, could pave the way for its inclusion in immunisation programmes worldwide, paediatric infectious disease expert Miguel Luis O'Ryan said on Thursday.