Imperfect picture

Families finance addiction at the cost of child health

What India can do to strengthen community-based foster care for children in need of nurturing

Lack of awareness involving village-level child protection committees, non-availability of frontline workers dedicated to child protection …

Odisha minister endorses CRY-VCRO campaign on child health, malnutrition

The six-month-long campaign reached out to children and mothers of 131 villages of five tribal districts in Odisha

Free the child from all barriers this Independence Day  

 As we celebrate seven decades of independence, we must give all our children the gift of real freedom – from prejudice, barriers, …

Centre sends team to assess malnutrition deaths in Odisha

Ninteen infants have died due to malnutrition and related diseases in Jajpur district in the last six months

Venting the spleen

A new drug will reduce the agony and the costs of treating thalassaemia, a hereditary blood disorder

Empowering the Disabled

Organisations strive to show that the world of a spastic child is no different than the one we all live in

Pudgy babies have the edge

Recent studies indicate that the greater the weight of babies at birth, the less prone they are to heart disease during their riotous adult years

Quite disturbing: Pakistan nutrition survey

The Nutrition Section of Pakistan's Planning Commission, working in collaboration with the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund,…

Alcohol ads: Teens targeted?

A recent study in the US reports that magazines popular with teenagers such as Rolling Stone and People tend to carry more alcohol advertisements.…

Simply Put: Free with your baby powder

COVID-19 pandemic & children: Omicron unlikely to increase threat in children

Hasty vaccination of healthy young people will have little benefit 

Union Budget 2019-20: Status quo remains for children

Allocation needed to be increased after being nearly stagnant for years

Globally, one in four children is stunted

India is home to the largest number of stunted children in the world

Leading the way to brain damage

India has yet to tackle the problem of leaded petrol, which causes brain damage in children

Good gas

Water for thought

Small is risky

AIDS woes

Junky baby

Weighty problem

Drink milk, live better

Having no appeal

Polychlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons retard children's sexual maturation

A sure shot

Hepatitis B vaccine should not be administered to all children

Rated X for children