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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Sudan: Cholera Infections Growing Among Children in Sudan's El Gedaref
El Gedaref — Health sources from Sudan's El Gedaref state revealed the death of a child and infection of several others with cholera on Tuesday and Wednesday. Contaminated drinking water is the suspected
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Ignoring protests, Gov. Ambode signs Lagos environment bill
The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday signed the Environmental Management and Protection Bill into law, expressing optimism that it would go a long way to secure the public health safety
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World Bank approves $16m to support reproductive, maternal and child health in Liberia
The World Bank Group has approved a $16 million grant from the Global Financing Facility (GFF) to help improve the quality of primary and secondary health care services in Liberia. This grant will support
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National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4): India fact sheet
The National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health and nutrition for India and each State / Union territory. NFHS-4, for the first
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Make schools in Oman junk food free zones
Stop sending your children to school with junk food, parents in Oman have been told by head teachers involved in a government healthy eating scheme.Some children sent to school with lunch boxes packed
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Intergenerational change in anthropometric indices and their predictors among children in New Delhi birth cohort
There is a perception that despite considerable economic growth, India has not made commensurate progress in addressing anthropometric (weight-for-age, height-for-age and weight-for-height or body mass
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Scrub typhus: A prospective, observational study during an outbreak in Rajasthan, India
<p>Scrub typhus, a potentially fatal rickettsial infection, is common in India. It usually presents with acute febrile illness along with multi-organ involvement caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi. As there
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Dietary deficiency of vitamin A among rural children: A community-based survey using a food-frequency questionnaire
<p>Overt vitamin A deficiency has been controlled in most parts of India, but prevalence of subclinical deficiency may still be high, which may enhance susceptibility to infections, reduce growth potential
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Recommendations on behavioural interventions for the prevention and treatment of cigarette smoking among school-aged children and youth
<p>Among Canadian youth, 18% have tried cigarettes, with the range increasing from 3% among children in grade 6 to 36% among youth in grade 12. A person who starts smoking as a child or youth is less likely
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Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study
<p>The English and Romanian Adoptees study is a longitudinal, natural experiment investigation into the long-term outcomes of individuals who spent from soon after birth to up to 43 months in severe deprivation