Cul-de-sap

African milk bush causes cancer

Given up

Lethal cocktail

Untreated hunger

No guidelines for severe malnutrition in children

Epidemic strikes Karachi

Contamination of drinking water by sewage

Air pollution will harm brain development, 9 of 10 people breathe polluted air

Annual loss in human capital arising from mental health conditions in children aged 0-19 is $387.2 billion

Child slavery in West Africa: Understanding cocoa farming is key to ending the practice

Surveys and studies on child slavery in West African cocoa farming have failed to consider its causes

Specialized cells maintain healthy pregnancy by teaching the mother’s immune system not to attack developing fetus

How does the immune system generally learn what to attack and what not to attack? A study tries to find out 

Our children are at risk of air pollution. Now is the time to act

Children’s health can be affected by air pollution even before they are born.  As they grow up, pollution stunts their lung growth&…

Time and support are of the essence in preventing child marriages

Rescuing a child in time, followed by regular monitoring of her kin and providing her with support, will ensure she is not again forced into such …

Climate change: 490 million children in Africa most vulnerable

Of the 750 million children in 45 countries likely to be most affected by climate risk, 210 million are in three South Asian nations — …

Exposure to air pollution can cause anaemia in very young children, says new study

A 10 μg/m3 rise in ambient PM 2.5 exposure caused a 0.07 g/dL decrease in average haemoglobin count 

Fewer kids under 3 breastfed within an hour of birth, finds NFHS-5

The highest percentage of children under three who were breastfed within one hour of birth was registered in Meghalaya, followed by …

Litchi causing encephalitis deaths in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district: study

The study establishes relation between litchi consumption and encephalitis after conducting a hospital-based surveillance on 390 patients

Childhood stunting affects future success in life, say experts

According to a study, stunting causes physical and neurocognitive damage that is irreversible in most cases

Unkindest cut of all

The Union government's health budget hack is pushing Maharashtra back into the malnutrition trap

Children and passive smoking

A pregnant woman exposed to cigarette smoke can pass on the harmful smoke constituents to the foetus

Shaken innocence

The widely reported case of Matthew Eapen's death has highlighted the ignorance regarding the "shaken baby syndrome"

COVID-19 can reverse decades of progress in eliminating child deaths: UN

Almost 68% of 77 countries surveyed reported at least some disruption in health checks and immunisation services, which may lead to increase in …

Stillborn in Africa: UN pegs number at a million every year

Situation has worsened in 2 decades, may slip further due to COVID-19 pandemic, warns Unicef report

Simply Put: Gifts from Santa, anyone?

Global food crisis: 1 new child suffers severe malnutrition every 60 seconds, says UNICEF

Almost 8 million children, mainly in Africa, at risk of deaths from severe wasting

Hunger costs Ghana $2.6 billion per year

24 per cent of all child mortality cases in Ghana are associated with undernutrition

China goes in for eugenics

Placental help

Blood stem cells from the placenta could be a major help in treating leukaemic kids