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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Millennium Development Goals: final country report of India 2017
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has been bringing out India Country monitoring reports showcasing progress achieved under MDGs since 2005. The Ministry has come up with the `Millennium
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Number of children stunting on the rise in Africa, WHO says
The number of stunted children in Africa is on the rise, according to the newly released nutrition report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa. The Africa Nutrition Report,
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Nigeria Oil Spills Double Risk of Infant Mortality, Research Shows
LONDON - Babies are much more likely to die in their first few weeks of life if their mothers live close to the site of an oil spill, according to new research. Scientists studied data on infant mortality
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State pumps Sh5 billion to improve food security
The Government will spend Sh5 billion in the next five years to improve food security and access to nutrition. The investment by the Ministry of Agriculture is informed by the disturbing figures of ten
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Haryana probes Rs. 16 lakh bill for dengue patient
Hospital says it did not overcharge The Haryana government on Tuesday ordered a probe into an allegation that Fortis Hospital in Gurgaon had overcharged the family of a seven-year-old girl, who died
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District officials unsure how to tackle malnutrition in over 90k kids with only panjiri
AGRA: With the state government abandoning three supplementary nutrition programmes, to tackle high malnutrition rates among women and children, district officials here are left with only 'panjiri' (a
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A growing concern- Fatty Liver Disease
<p>When a condition commonly associated with a lifetime of alcohol abuse — severe scarring of the liver, or cirrhosis — starts to show up in children as young as eight, something is very wrong.</p>
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The twin challenge of antibiotics use in India
While on the one hand it is critical to control overuse, on the other there is need to improve antibiotics access to the poor and vulnerable When it comes to antibiotics use, India faces a twin challenge.
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Dengue patient dies, parents billed Rs 16 lakh for 2 weeks in ICU
NEW DELHI: Fortis Memorial Research Institute (Gurgaon) charged the family of a seven-year-old dengue patient almost Rs 16 lakh for 15 days in the ICU, but the girl died while being shifted from Fortis
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The value of confirmatory testing in early infant HIV diagnosis programmes in South Africa: A cost-effectiveness analysis
<p>The specificity of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) used for early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV infection is <100%, leading some HIV-uninfected infants to be incorrectly identified as HIV-infected.