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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Battle still rages between landfill site and residents
DURBAN - A legal battle rages on between waste management company EnviroServ and the civil group Upper Highway Air (UHA) over the operations at the controversial Shongweni landfill site. UHA will be
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Saudi foundation pledges $50 million to eradicate measles
NEW YORK, April 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Saudi Arabian charitable foundation said on Monday it will give $50 million to the United Nations children's agency to help eliminate measles, the largest
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The cost of the double burden of malnutrition: Social and economic impact
The epidemiological and nutrition transition of Latin American countries imposes a double challenge for nutrition and food security public policies. On the one hand, to continue the task of eradicating
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Kerala air quality goes up in smoke
KOCHI: Data From Air Pollution Monitoring Stations Show High Suspended Particulate Matter . Quality of air in many parts of the state is getting worse every day resulting in severe health issues, but people
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Financing global health 2016: development assistance, public and private health spending for the pursuit of universal health coverage
Financing Global Health 2016 is the eighth edition of IHME’s annual series on global health spending and health financing. In addition to describing the trends in development assistance for health (DAH),
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Child Cancer Rates Continue to Grow: Cancer Research Agency
Rabat – The international rate of child cancer cases has increased by 13 percent since the 1980s, according to a survey by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). In a press release,
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Effectiveness of a live oral human rotavirus vaccine after programmatic introduction in Bangladesh: A cluster-randomized trial
<p>Rotavirus vaccines are now globally recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), but in early 2009 WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization reviewed available data and
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Malnutrition ails urban India too
Mumbai family learns how lack of right feeding can affect a toddler’s growth, after consulting a child nutrition expert When Alankriti and Ashwini Jain welcomed their baby girl in 2015, they vowed to
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An investment framework for nutrition: reaching the global targets for stunting, anemia, breastfeeding, and wasting
The report estimates the costs, impacts and financing scenarios to achieve the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for stunting, anemia in women, exclusive breastfeeding and the scaling up of
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International incidence of childhood cancer, 2001–10: a population-based registry study
<p>Cancer is a major cause of death in children worldwide, and the recorded incidence tends to increase with time. Internationally comparable data on childhood cancer incidence in the past two decades