Girls, hope your health gets precedence over ‘tradition’

Child marriages are not illegal yet but they could be if the WCD ministry’s proposal is accepted

No formula food for premature babies, they too need mother’s milk: study

A study conducted at AIIMS busts the myth that babies born prematurely need complementary food

Child and adolescent mortality declined globally from 1990 to 2015

But countries with a low socio-demographic index saw about 75 per cent of deaths in 2016 as compared to 61 per cent in 1990

People in Africa are living longer but lifestyle diseases are rising

The burden of communicable disease is declining in Africa and life expectancy is increasing. But non-communicable diseases like diabetes, …

Economic Survey bats for one-time cash transfer to pregnant women

Investment in maternal health can become a top policy priority of the central government

Africa on its way to becoming a polio-free continent

It is likely that Nigeria will soon be removed by WHO from the list of countries where polio is endemic

Extreme weather impact: 20,000 children displaced every day in last 6 years

At least three of every 10 persons displaced across the world due to weather-related disasters was a child

Paediatric beds fill up in West Bengal as adenovirus spreads, 3 deaths recorded

Doctors have seen an at least 50 per cent increase in cases this year compared to usual

Anaemia in women, children aggravated in 2019: NFHS-5

As many as 68.4% children and 66.4% women surveyed suffered from anaemia in 2019

India bags top spot in child wasting rate: Global Hunger Index

The rate increased to 20.8 per cent among children under five this year

Rewind 2018: Health roundup of India

Major developments, policies, reports and disputes in the health sector

Appetite for junk

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Foetal memory

Learning starts in the womb

Chocolate caution!

Natural shield

Organic diet increases pesticide tolerance in children

Nutritional crisis: India has most ‘zero-food’ children at 6.7 million; third highest prevalance among 92 LMICs

Children aged 6-23 months going without milk, solid or semisolid food in 24-hour period are ‘zero-food’

Globally, just 1 in 4 children covered by social protection: UN report

One billion children live in multidimensional poverty without access to education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water

Children with cancer: WHO estimates 55-85% in low- and middle-income countries get no treatment

Nearly 69% of southeast Asia’s cases of acute lymphoid leukemia, the most common cancer in children, were in India

DMF best practices: These mining districts have opened creches through DMF funds

Keonjhar and Anuppur seek to address a nutrition gap before children go to the anganwadi centre through the creches

Budget 2020-21: Why it’s high time for a thorough revamp of our child budget

India's allocation for children has been remained a paltry 3.3% for some time now. Here's why we need more

Child cancer drugs neither available nor accessible to the poor in Delhi

A study reveals that a lowest-paid government employee will have to spend 55 days’ wages to get a child treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma and …

Zika needs to be controlled but how?

With 131 cases of Zika infections being reported in Rajasthan, the country is up in arms against the disease but has no reliable way of dealing …

World Malaria Day: sub-Saharan Africa in the spotlight

WHO recommends a package of prevention approaches, including insecticide-treated nets, spraying indoor walls with insecticides and preventive …

In Parliament on March 10, 2017

The controversial crop insurance scheme, the impact of erratic weather on crops, chronic diseases, food fortification were among some of the …

Depression single largest contributor to global disability, says WHO

The alarming thing is that the number of people with common mental disorders is increasing, particularly in low-income countries