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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Access to emergency hospital care provided by the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015: a geocoded inventory and spatial analysis
<p>Timely access to emergency care can substantially reduce mortality. International benchmarks for access to emergency hospital care have been established to guide ambitions for universal health care
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No child should ever be given cough syrup: Expert
Nagpur: In the wake of the high-grade fever and cough affecting a very large number of children in the city, senior paediatrician Dr Satish Deopujari has given a call to every counterpart not to prescribe
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Drug-resistant cough plagues Kolkata kids
KOLKATA: The persistent early morning fog — innocuous though it may seem — has left a trail of illnesses in Kolkata, including a drug-resistant cough that has been affecting children. Ever since pockets
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1.2 lakh fewer deaths in under-5 category in 2016
India registers best under-5 infant mortality rate since 2010 India posted its sharpest year-on-year decline in the under-5 infant mortality rate (u5) since 2010, according to figures from the Sample
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Pneumonia shot for kids in nine dists from March
Jaipur: From March, children of the state will get a shield to protect themselves from fatal pneumococcal pneumonia. The Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) will be launched for children to bring down
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Factors associated with elevated blood lead levels in children
<p>Aligarh, a densely populated town of Uttar Pradesh, is the hub of a variety of industries and is feared to be home to children at risk of lead exposure. Hence, this study was planned to determine the
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Madhya Pradesh unlikely to meet under-5 mortality target
BHOPAL: In the absence of well-defined data on infant mortality rate (IMR) and under 5 mortality rate ((U5MR) across districts, residences, social classes and genders, the IMR and U5MR continue to be the
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Nigeria: Jigawa Polio Free for 6 Years-Official
Dr Kabir Ibrahim, the Executive Secretary, Jigawa Primary Healthcare Development Agency (JSPHDA) said that the state has not recorded any new polio case in six years. Ibrahim made this known in an interview
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Six-year-old’s plea against poultry farm prompts NGT to issue notice to UP govt
The tribunal was hearing a plea seeking execution of the NGT's October 31, 2017 order which had directed the UP pollution control board to take appropriate action against poultry farms which are operating
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Pollution has impact on newborns: study
Maternal exposure to PM 2.5 blamed for low birth weight Maternal exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) is an important risk factor and could be a definitive cause for low birth weight newborns,