NFHS-5: Child mortality drops, prevalence of malnutrition remains high

Despite the decline, India’s infant mortality rate worst among developing countries 

UK may ban junk food ads, should India follow?

Since India lacks regulatory framework for promotion of foods items containing high fat, salt and sugar, experts feel a similar step could prove …

Gopichand’s healthy choice

Gopichand is a national hero because he is the only Indian sportsperson who has publicly shunned endorsing soft drinks

India takes steps towards nutrient profiling of packaged foods

Initial survey on labels suggests that packaged food is not fit to be marketed to children 

Paramedics show the way

How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline

Why three toddlers were forced to seek SC ban on firecrackers

Citing fundamental right to life, parents make their children as litigants in a first-of-its-kind PIL against the use of firecrackers during festivals

As told to Parliament (February 10, 2023): Smriti Irani says her ministry ‘unaware’ of CSE report on malnutrition deaths

The report by Centre for Science & Environment and DTE shows over 1.7 million Indians die every year due to poor diet

Fruit scare

Encephalitis is not only threatening lives in Bihar, but also the livelihood of litchi farmers as unconfirmed reports link the disease to the fruit

Climate-resilient water, sanitation & hygiene policies need of hour to meet global agenda of 2030

The 10 African countries most water-insecure & climate-impacted need immediate attention 

India’s hunger crisis worse than Bangladesh, Nepal

Around 15 per cent of India’s population is undernourished and 38.7 per cent of children suffer from stunted growth

Banking on mothers

A bank in Udaipur collects mothers’ milk; experts to chalk out plan to include it in national policy

‘Over 22 million in Ethiopia facing severe food crisis’

Back-to-back droughts causing food emergency, children at high risk of death from malnutrition, says non-profit

What does Union Budget 2021-22 mean for students, farmers, migrants, health workers? Not much

What was expected in a time of crisis were bold decisions. But finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman decided to play it safe

Poisons we live with

Book>> What’s gotten into us? Staying healthy in a toxic world • by Mckay Jenkins, Random House • US $26

Dumping nuclear burden

Australia's move to return to aborigines land located on former nuclear test site draws flak

Hunger strikes forest’s exiles

Once called lords of the jungle, Baiga groups in Madhya Pradesh are starving on the margins of Kanha National Park. Shriya Mohan chronicles their …

India tops global charts for childhood diabetes and deaths: Study

Almost 40% increase in cases to 2019 from 1990 globally; largest increase in cases recorded in children aged 10 to 14 years

Rahima Moosa: South Africa’s only mother and child hospital is falling apart — a veteran doctor reflects on why

The country’s health ombudsman recently published a shocking investigation into Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital 

Under-five child mortality drops 53 per cent from 1990 to 2015: report

Despite progress, a large number of children are still dying due to preventable causes. Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia are the regions …

Has COVID-19 taken the wind out of the sails of India’s school feeding programme

Though the government issued guidelines to states to provide food to all eligible children in March 2020, implementation has been lax

Breastfeeding in times of COVID-19: Will newborns miss out on vital nutrition

Reduction in prevalence of breastfeeding could occur due to limitations in provision and use of health services amid COVID-19 pandemic &…

Through the thick air

This Diwali, PM 10 and PM 2.5 reached eight times the safe limit. Its not the first time and it won't be the last. Burning of crop stubble, road …

Extinctions, an epic reality

The gripping non-fiction shows how reality is actually more dramatic than the imagination

The thalidomide story explained

How a drug prescribed for nausea in pregnant women led to severe limb defects in their babies  

Sure cure: how to tackle India's undernutrition crisis in 10 steps

The finance ministry and the planning department can play an overarching role by ensuring health programmes get sufficient resources