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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Scalp protection
Researchers from Brazil have just reported that skin flakes in the hair of children with dandruff provide a comfortable refuge for house-dust mites, which trigger allergic responses that can cause
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Fatherly instinct
Although providing milk to the new-born is the exclusive role of mothers, Charle Snowdon and his team from the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Centre, US, have reported that the hormone
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Cure before birth
Genetically weak foetuses can grow into healthy humans with bone marrow transplants
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Fatal beginnings
Thought to be lifestyle related till now, heart diseases might have their origins in the womb
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Placental help
Blood stem cells from the placenta could be a major help in treating leukaemic kids
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Stunted
STUDIES carried out on newborns in the heavily polluted regions of Eastern Europe have given more cause for concern about the ill-effects of air pollution. At a recent conference in Budapest,
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SOUTH AFRICA
hiv -positive mothers double the risks of passing hiv to their babies through breast milk, suggests a controversial South African study. Breastfeeding is belie ved to be the best prevention
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Ambient air pollution & respiratory symptoms complex in preschool children
<p>To study the association between ambient air pollutants (AAP) and respiratory symptoms complex (RSC) in preschool children, a cohort of 664 children between the ages of 1 month to 4.5 yr were randomly selected from 28 slums (anganwadi centres) of Lucknow, north India. They were followed up fortnightly for six months.
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Good gas
malaria research has thrown up yet another factor which determines why the disease varies in its manifestations in different people, from children to adults. Nitric oxide, a toxic gas and an air
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UNITED NATIONS
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund has declared that the first week of September be observed as the