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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Seven more districts to join fight against malnutrition
JAIPUR: The innovative programme, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), which was launched in 13 districts, will be expended to seven more districts in second phase. In this regard, a meeting
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Autophagy inhibition overcomes multiple mechanisms of resistance to BRAF inhibition in brain tumors
<p>Kinase inhibitors are effective cancer therapies, but tumors frequently develop resistance. Current strategies to circumvent resistance target the same or parallel pathways. We report here that targeting
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Advancing the right to health: the vital role of law
This report aims to raise awareness about the role that the reform of public health laws can play in advancing the right to health and in creating the conditions for people to live healthy lives. By encouraging
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Hyderabad: Unsafe water supply putting children at risk
Water samples show there are at least 15 sites where bacteriological contamination is at a constant high. Hyderabad: Unsafe water and poor sanitation adversely affects the immune system of children,
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding the control of ICDS scheme in the hands of few suppliers, Maharashtra, 12/01/2017
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Jayshree Mahila Bachat Gat & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 12/01/2017 regarding the control of projects under the Integrated Child
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In Rajasthan, vaccine shortage hits polio drive
JAIPUR: Acute shortage of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has come as a major setback for the state in its fight against polio. The shared boundary with Pakistan, which is yet to be declared a polio-free
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Mumbai: Private hospitals chip in, bring malnutrition down in Palghar
Five private hospitals — Jaslok, Hinduja, Global, Wadia and Surya Child Care — work with anganwadis to bring malnutrition cases in district down from 43,865 to 7,562 in over three months. Following
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Parental obesity and early childhood development
<p>Previous studies identified associations between maternal obesity and childhood neurodevelopment, but few examined paternal obesity despite potentially distinct genetic/epigenetic effects related to
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Twenty-year follow-up of Kangaroo Mother Care versus traditional care
<p>Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a multifaceted intervention for preterm and low birth weight infants and their parents. Short- and mid-term benefits of KMC on survival, neurodevelopment, breastfeeding,
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Use of antibiotics in children younger than two years in eight countries: a prospective cohort study
<p>The objective of the study is to describe the frequency and factors associated with antibiotic use in early childhood, and estimate the proportion of diarrhoea and respiratory illnesses episodes treated