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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Encephalitis death toll in Odisha mounts to 76
Personnel of the Health department as well as all other government officials in Malkangiri district of Odisha are continuing to fight menace of Japanese encephalitis. Death toll of children due to encephalitis
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Projecting progress: are cities on track to achieve the SDGs by 2030?
This report explores for the first time the scale of the challenge for 20 cities across the world to reach selected targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More than half of the targets
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World Obesity Day Today Weighty threat to children
AHMEDABAD: As 'World Obesity Day' this year, Wednesday, is dedicated to fighting child obesity, the trend here seems to be alarming. Every day, at least one case of childhood obesity is registered in the
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Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand regarding use of adhesive solutions as drugs by children, Uttarakhand, 25/10/2016
<p>Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital dated 25/10/2016 regarding availability of Iodex, Fevi-Quick and any other adhesive solutions to children below the age of 18 years.</p> <p>Chief
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Have we substantially underestimated the impact of improved sanitation coverage on child health? A generalized additive model panel analysis of global data on child mortality and malnutrition
<p>Although widely accepted as being one of the most important public health advances of the past hundred years, the contribution that improving sanitation coverage can make to child health is still unclear,
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Strategic review of food security and nutrition in Bangladesh
A major independent report emphasises that the Government of Bangladesh and its partners must rally to end hunger and improve nutrition to sustain the country’s remarkable economic trajectory. Led by
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Sources of variation in under-5 mortality across sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial analysis
<p>Detailed spatial understanding of levels and trends in under-5 mortality is needed to improve the targeting of interventions to the areas of highest need, and to understand the sources of variation
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Ill-effects of air pollution may be transgenerational, says international expert
Adverse effects of air pollution, described as the world’s biggest environmental risk by WHO, may linger on in Delhi for generations to come, experts warn. New studies in this area, indicating that its
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Scavengers at Zambia Mine Site Call Threat of Lead Poisoning Better Than Starvation
Now, with lead sulfide and zinc ore reserves seemingly exhausted, Kabwe, the capital of Zambia's Central Province, is a ghost town, local people say. Nearly a century of mining for lead, cadmium and other
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Pakistan witnesses 62pc drop in polio cases during 2016
The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) said on Sunday that the country has witnessed a 62 per cent drop in polio cases during the current year. A 55pc reduction has also been noted, with the