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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Palghar malnutrition death toll in September: 47, not 4
Fresh govt. data shows causes of death include pneumonia, low birth weight, which are linked to malnutrition As the Maharashtra government faces widespread criticism for the malnutrition deaths of four
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Efficacy of a Russian-backbone live attenuated influenza vaccine among young children in Bangladesh: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
<p>The rates of influenza illness and associated complications are high among children in Bangladesh. We assessed the clinical efficacy and safety of a Russian-backbone live attenuated influenza vaccine
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15% patients are Obesity, say doctors
INDORE: Changing lifestyles, increased stress and decreased physical activity have led to a significant rise in obesity among people living in urban areas in the state in the last decade. As world observes
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200 million children overweight in India, IASO study suggests
A pan-India study conducted by Pune doctors, members of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) and the advances of research in obesity (ARIO) has revealed that more than 50 per cent
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2016 Global hunger index: getting to zero hunger
The global community is not on course to end hunger by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal deadline of 2030, according to data from the 2016 Global Hunger Index. If hunger declines at the same
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Encephalitis widens its net, 112 new cases reported
The spike in cases of encephalitis in Poorvanchal region has put district administration on tenterhooks. 112 new cases of encephalitis were reported in the region, putting a question mark on the administration's
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Vaccine-derived polioviruses and children with primary immunodeficiency, Iran, 1995–2014
<p>Widespread use of oral poliovirus vaccine has led to an ≈99.9% decrease in global incidence of poliomyelitis (from ≈350,000 cases in 1988 to 74 cases in 2015) and eradication of wild-type
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India recorded highest under-five deaths in 2015: Lancet
India has recorded the highest number of deaths of children under the age of five in 2015, according to a latest Lancet study which also said that the country performed poorly in terms of tuberculosis
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Uttarakhand to use locally grown therapeutic food to curb severe malnutrition, anaemia
Dehradun: In Uttarakhand's battle against malnutrition, mandua and chaulai will now be the frontline warriors. In a first of its kind experiment, the hill state will use locally produced Ready-to-use Therapeutic
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‘Children more vulnerable to respiratory illnesses’z
Doctors say number of such children has risen sharply over the years owing to increasing air pollution Forty-five-year old Rajesh S., a software professional who resides in BTM Layout, would rather