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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Dengue most dangerous for pregnant women, kids
KOLKATA: At least two pregnant women who were down with dengue have died within a fortnight. Jesmita Haldar, a 27-year-old homemaker who had slipped into a coma after delivering a stillborn, succumbed
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Kenya to adopt WHO pneumonia guidelines to reduce child mortality
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya plans to adopt the World Health Organization (WHO) pneumonia guidelines in order to reduce child mortality. Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health Jackson Kioko
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United Nations says 36.5 million people in East Africa face food crisis
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The number of people facing crisis-level food insecurity in the Eastern Africa region has increased by 18 percent to 36.5 million in October from 30.9 million a year ago, UN humanitarian
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Apple leads way in tracing cobalt from Congo, Microsoft lags- Amnesty
Apple (AAPL.O) is leading the way in tracing cobalt used in its electronics to ensure the metal has not been mined by children in Democratic Republic of Congo while Microsoft (MSFT.O) is lagging, Amnesty
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Nutrition in the WHO African Region
A newly released nutrition report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa has revealed that undernutrition is still persistent in the region and the number of stunted children
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Malnutrition India's biggest health hazard, air pollution a close second
NEW DELHI: Child and maternal malnutrition continues to be the biggest health hazard in India since 1990, while deteriorating air quality came a close second, according to a recent report in one of the
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Delhi kids have smaller lungs compared with children in US due to air pollution’
Smaller lungs mean poorer exercise capacity, and greater vulnerability to respiratory symptoms and diseases, says a recently released study A study conducted on Delhi children and released recently
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A prospective study of homocysteine and its relation to body mass index and lipid profile in school children
<p>The objective of the study was to study the serum Homocysteine levels in children and its relation with body mass index (BMI), lipid profile and plasma glucose.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.indianpediatrics.net/nov2017/935.pdf"
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Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study
18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population health in India requires availability
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India: Health of the Nation’s states- the India state-level disease burden initiative
<p>This report prepared as part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2016, and published in Lancet , has found that every State in India has a higher burden from non-communicable diseases and injuries than from infectious diseases.</p>