India accounts for 29 percent of all the first-day deaths globally, the highest for any country, according to the ‘State of the World’s Mothers’ report released by ‘Save the Children’ on May 6th 2013. This dismal rank …
Every year in India, over three lakh babies die within the first 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and preventable causes according to a report by charity Save the Children. They claim the biggest causes …
Citing the statistics from the National Family Health Survey-3, 2005-06, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath informed the Lok sabha on Friday that nearly 20 percent of children in the country suffer from acute …
Given its current performance level, India is unlikely to meet the just stipulated benchmark on mitigation of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea among infants in the country. The death rate due to pneumonia and diarrhoea has increased by …
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Norwegian government have signed an agreement to continue an initiative to reduce maternal and infant mortality in 13 districts in four Indian states. Selected interventions …
Are we making the wrong choices in battling child mortality? That seems to be the case as one of the largest live studies on child malnutrition showed that the normal standard policy followed by many developing nations including …
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday clarified that he had not sought to link malnutrition in the state to beauty consciousness among girls, and claimed the state had achieved the highest rate of reducing malnutrition …
The central government has asked state governments to set up state-level nutrition councils to address the problem of malnutrition; the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. To address the issue of malnutrition, the prime minister's …
To estimate the iron-deficiency anaemia in east Delhi, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) on Friday launched a programme to assess the health of 50,000 school children in the area. The six-month long ‘Suposhan’ …
Today is International Women’s Day but as far as our nation is concerned it’s a bloody farce. The main UN theme ‘A promise is a promise: End violence against women’ rings hollow in this country where the girl child’s …
Aiming to free Jharkhand of malnutrition, an ambitious programme Jeevan Asha was launched in Ranchi on Thursday. The anti-malnutrition programme will cover malnourished children below five years of age in all the 32,000 villages …
Actor Aamir Khan is part of a nationwide campaign to raise awareness about malnutrition, which is more widespread in India than Sub-Saharan Africa. The actor, the UNICEF brand ambassador for malnutrition, has launched the …
The health ministry's proposal to tackle anaemia by providing iron folic acid (IFA) tablets every week to 130 million adolescent girls across the country ‘is old wine in new bottles, unlikely change things,’ an expert has …
These days bariatric surgery has become synonymous with weight loss. People who can afford it often think of it as an alternative to eating healthy and exercising. Dr Ramen Goel, a bariatric surgeon tells us more about the …
